Atlanta blues musician Beverly Hayes Watkins, 80, who performed with James Brown, Ray Charles and Otis Redding, and whose blistering licks on a 1962 red Fender Mustang earned her the well-deserved ...

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Just in time for Women’s History Month, Cinnabar Theater presents “Blues is a Woman,” a one-night-only event blending a jukebox musical and a blues concert with a covert history lesson. Initially ...

The titular “Pinky” is the name Austin by way of Ottawa, Canada’s veteran blues woman Sue Foley bestowed to her iconic pink paisley Fender Telecaster. It’s an instrument that has accompanied her for ...

A group of highly regarded Bay Area musicians is launching their new ensemble theatrical concert at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley on Thursday, March 30. At the concert, the Blues is a Woman Ensemble ...

CARRBORO, N.C. (WTVD) -- There are many fabulous artist who have found success but started their career right here in North Carolina. One of those people is Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten. A legendary blues ...

Growing up in the 1950s and 60s, Pamela Rose knew she wanted to sing the blues. Every song she heard in that genre spoke to her in powerful ways. "That's the music I grew up on," she says today. "I ...

Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson is best known as a sideman to Magic Sam and Muddy Waters, but he could tear up a stage all by ...