One of the biggest misconceptions about blues music is that the genre is all about doom and gloom. Naturally, many blues songs feature lyrics about being down in the dumps, love lost, and heartbreak.

(ThyBlackMan.com) When discussing the most influential blues musicians of all time, Howlin’ Wolf stands in a league of his ...

The blues music genre has been around for a very long time and produced some incredible singers and musicians, but what are the most legendary blues songs? With its origins tracing back over 100 years ...

Eric Clapton is a legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his smooth blues and rock sound. With a career spanning decades, he has won 18 Grammy Awards and is often regarded as one of the ...

Proving that even British bands could get in on the yacht rock act, the Climax Blues Band knocked off a pair of songs that fit well into the canon. There was the sleekly funky “Couldn’t Get It Right” ...

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 ...

So reads the prologue to Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 treatise on the horrors of existential dread. In the book, Jake Barnes and a band of entirely unlikeable expat misfits flit around the globe, from ...

Cited as one of the first representations of black queer popular culture, Ma Rainey's sensational Prove It on Me Blues is a landmark song that had a profound and lasting effect. One night in 1925, a ...

During his show at Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre on Thursday night, Taj Mahal recalled that the older-generation bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins said in 1967, “Y’all think you got the blues now, you wait ...