Daisley, Osbourne, Rhoads and Kerslake began recording Blizzard Of Ozz on March 22, 1980 at Ridge Farm Studios in rural ...

By the time B.B. King recorded “The Thrill Is Gone” in 1969, the blues had already traveled far beyond its point of origin.

Kevin Burt, a member of the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame and International Blues Challenge overall winner, entertains the audience at the Beat the Winter Blues and Jazz Festival at Gathered Oaks in ...

The rock world is mourning the loss of The Moody Blues’ Mike Pinder. The founding keyboardist passed away on Wednesday, April 24, at age 82. Pinder was a member of the popular British group from its ...

Many landmark moments in rock history have resulted from artists updating the blues. And 1967 proved to be an especially ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods; it's ...

Mamie Smith set the tone for a new century of sound in global music. The Cincinnati native was the first singer to record the blues. It’s the foundational American music form upon which jazz, country, ...

This isn’t a book for the fainthearted. It’s certainly not for the puritanical. This magnificent, raunchy exploration of early blues lyrics contains references so scabrous they would make a pirate ...

The Tennessee Valley music scene is remembering a blues icon dedicated to music education after the announcement of his ...