Mickey Baker, an exceptional 1950s session guitarist who played on hundreds of recordings, helping to transform rhythm and blues into rock ‘n’ roll, died Tuesday at his home near Toulouse, France, ...

Revisionism alert: The propulsive 2 and 4 of rock ‘n’ roll-rhythm and blues wasn’t the only big beat shaking America from the doldrums of the late 1950s, and these recent reissues are the forceful ...

Ruth Brown, the pioneering singer whose 1950s hits including “Teardrops From My Eyes” and “(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean” helped establish both the rhythm-and-blues form and Atlantic Records as ...

Elvis Presley transformed a failed song into a legendary recording that became his final No.1 hit during his late-career comeback.

Bassist Cullen Landry first played classic New Orleans rhythm & blues with the Jokers in the late 1950s, when he was a student at Jesuit High School. Nearly 60 years later, he’s still celebrating the ...