Joe Bonamassa plays Albert King's 1971 custom-built "Lucy" Flying V-style guitar made by Dan Erlewine. After the 1960s blues boom, the genre began to lose traction as rock, metal, punk, rap and ...

The youngest band to perform at the recent Baton Rouge Blues Festival, the Juke Joint Juniors feature middle and high school students enrolled in the West Baton Rouge Museum’s Blues After School ...

New to the blues? Here’s what you need to know to get you started. Blues music is a genre that grew out of the American dream. Its roots were firmly planted in the New World before it migrated to ...

Applehead performing at re:HAB Bar On The Bayou. Credit: Photo by William Allen Ralston I first Met Dennis Clapp aka Applehead in Rehab back in February of this year on my birthday; no not the type of ...

ST. LOUIS - In celebration of the enduring spirit and impact of blues music - the eponymous genre that gave this hockey team its name back in 1967 - the St. Louis Blues today debuted the opening notes ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...