He was in the cradle when Elvis Presley came on the TV in his family’s house on Mason Street in the late 1950s. That’s the first time he felt it. “It was always in my soul, the blues was,” he says. He ...

Born on the same Mississippi cotton plantation as B.B. King, Albert Nelson taught himself to play on a cigar-box guitar—left-handed and upside down. After moving to Brooklyn, Ill., in 1956, he ...

The blues genre has never been totally obsolete. However, in the ever-changing music industry, the genre has seemingly taken a back seat in favor of other types of music. It’s a shame, but it is ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Lonnie Johnson was the “governor” of blues guitar in the 1920’s. His playing combined incredibly fast melodic runs with evocative blues licks. His playing was the forerunner of jazz and rock guitar.

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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Blues artists, Bees Deluxe, return to the Shrine World Music Venue on Friday, ...

Blues guitarist Henry “Mule” Townsend, who fled home for St. Louis as a boy and then stayed for a prolific career that spanned eight decades, has died. He was 96. Townsend died Sunday of pulmonary ...