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 ...

Texas guitarist/singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Carolyn Wonderland, 52, has accumulated quite an impressive resume of recording projects, collaborations ...

The Chris Cain Band will play blues tunes on June 28 for Thursday Night Live at the Plaza in Woodland, which brings regional, national and international touring bands, each with their own special ...

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 ...

At just 27, fast-rising blues dynamo D.K. Harrell is probably a bit too young to be the subject of a feature film. But so many aspects of this Louisiana native’s life are worthy of big-screen ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Mike Zito Twenty years ago, singer-guitarist Mike Zito was in talks to sign with blues labels Alligator Records and Ruf Records, ...

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 ...