With his acclaimed interpretations of Delta Blues standards, he was a fixture on the Greenwich Village music scene for ...

John Hammond, the Grammy‑winning blues singer and guitarist whose career honored the Delta blues across six decades, died at ...

Legendary blues singer and guitarist John Hammond has died aged 83, ending a six-decade career dedicated to preserving and performing traditional blues music.

Ritchie Blackmore has been named the 2025 recipient of The National GUITAR Museum’s Lifetime Achievement Award, honouring his groundbreaking work with Deep Purple, Rainbow and Blackmore’s Night.

Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North. Sheer joy of ...

Over the summer, Samantha Martin listened to live recordings from a series of shows she did with Delta Sugar back in 2022.

With “traditional” blues as their foundation, some artists and educators working to introduce the music to the next ...

Link Wray, Chuck Berry, and Muddy Waters forever changed rock history with these iconic guitar riffs from the 1950s.

A slide master with a voice like life, the English bluesman hated the spotlight – and deserves notice beyond his perennial Christmas hit ...

HARTMAN WILL HAVE YOUR FULL FORECAST IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. THIS YEAR MARKS 100 YEARS OF CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH. THAT’S RIGHT. A TRADITION THAT BEGAN AS JUST A WEEK IN 1926. IT GREW INTO AN ...

Special to Wesson News While the Mississippi Delta is considered to be the birthplace of the blues, musicians from all across ...

Blues and rock is still being shaped by the British blues boom of the ’60s – and the O.G. bluesmen who influenced them. But how can today’s players nail their tone and sound? Marcus King, Samantha ...