The consistency of impressive quality in the worlds of jazz and blues in Nashville allows fans to enjoy great music year-round. The amount of noteworthy events makes it impossible to cite everything ...

Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

The Stax Museum of American Soul Music launched a website dedicated to the Bob Abrahamian collection. The collection includes rare recordings, interviews and radio shows from the late Chicago DJ and ...

THE POWERHOUSE SOUL SINGER REUNITES WITH JOE BONAMASSA ON A MASTERFUL COLLECTION - PRODUCED BY BONAMASSA, JOSH SMITH, ...

For over half a century Jackson, Mississippi-based label Malaco Records has been an undeniable force in Black music. With a roster of R&B kings (Little Milton, Bobby “Blue” Bland), soul-blues masters ...

As logical humans, we know this is objectively true: Music doesn’t have a temperature. And yet as emotional humans, we also know weather has vibes and warm weather universally = blues music. So this ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Smithsonian curator John Troutman and blues musician Dom Flemons about the new folk music album, Playing for the Man at the Door. DOM FLEMONS: This is a collection that ...

Bluesman John Primer is the real deal in the blues - as the band's name reflects. Primer is one of the few Chicago bluesmen still touring from a generation of blues legends of which he was a part, ...