It’s easy to take for granted that such blues giants as Son House, Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson and Lead Belly were always accepted as such. This provocative book is a new, often fresh examination ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Fender Strat is ideal for SRV-style Texas blues. A Gibson ES-335 will give you BB King or ...

Lately I’ve been mulling over this relevant Jimi Hendrix quote: “Blues is a part of America. When music goes too far out and is in danger of becoming a technique, people always come back to basic ...

With the miracle publication of blues researchers Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick's unfinished monolith Blues Come to Texas (Texas A&M University Press, 2019), it is worth reconsidering the first ...

In the late 1970s, I began a more academic approach to blues music. In addition to listening to the music, I began reading everything I could find. One of the first books I read was Robert Palmer's ...