A young man is doing his best to keep the old blues alive. “I like the blues music of the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s and ’50s,” said Jontavious Willis, acoustic guitarist and singer, during a recent phone ...

Nearly a decade after making his presence known on the North Texas blues scene as a teenage guitar prodigy, Dylan Bishop has released a 7-song EP that is an unplugged departure from his ...

INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

MACON, Ga. — On May 15, 1945, a Macon blues artist was born. His name is Robert Lee Coleman. Coleman says when he was young, he would watch his stepdad play the guitar. He says his stepdad was the ...

CHICAGO — Koko Taylor, a sharecropper’s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet “Queen of the Blues,” has died after complications from surgery. She was 80. Taylor ...

What happened to the profoundly influential blues musician Robert Johnson at a crossroads near Dockery Farms, Mississippi, when he was on his way to seek opportunity in Memphis? Blues legend has it ...

Nat Bolden is still going strong at 97. Just ask the people who catch the bluesman at any of his regular performance spots – including Eli’s Mile High Club, Continental Club, Everett & Jones BBQ and ...