Enslaved people would sing work songs while working the plantations and religious spirituals in church. Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues.

David Evans, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Memphis, explain some of the history behind blues music, especially the stripped-down, raw style of music called Delta blues. Mai Cramer ...

Mamie Smith made history in February 1920 when she ... He writes about blues and jazz for Universal Music. He also writes album sleeve notes for Verve Records. As a teenager, he saw BB King ...

The structure of blues music is still heard today in lots of different genres of music. Call and response close call and responseWhere one melody is answered by another. is a feature of work songs ...

The daughter of piano players, Houston’s "Swamp Boogie Queen" was drawn to the sounds of Little Richard and Fats Domino.

The music. The suits. The sunglasses ... Audible calls the Aykroyd-led oral history of the Blues Brothers "a joyous ...

Figgis himself participated, albeit in a minor way, in this period of history, playing in a blues band with Bryan Ferry, a band that was the nucleus for the first Roxy Music. A series of musical ...