The blues have had a massive impact on music across America, so it makes for a great start to building this list. However, I ...

Bessie Smith had probably the most famous song on the flood, but there's a peculiarity to it. It was recorded before the flood. "Back Water Blues" was recorded in February 1927, before the great ...

These four Cream songs are essential listening for any fan of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, and psychedelic rock in ...

The blues is a style of music created by African Americans at the end of the 19th Century. It developed out of folk music, spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally ...

“That's going to make it sound like a blues song, rather than just, you know, continuing to riff on a single note ... “It's basically always just walking up an E7 chord or backwards. And that's the ...

Musicians who had left the South during the Great Depression ... from one of his songs. BB King was another musician who earned acclaim during the nostalgia boom for the blues in the late 1960s.

Singing is very important in blues music too. The words in blues songs usually explain how the singer is feeling. These feelings are often sad. There are many different instruments used in jazz ...

It is, because we all start the same [ Laughs ]. In whatever you do in your life, you need encouragement and love and respect ...