“Roll With the Punches,” the full-length album Milgate released Jan. 16, shows off that education and that web of Worcester ties, even though he moved from Central Massachusetts to the Hudson Valley a ...

Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram has announced he’s launching a new label specifically for blues and blues-influenced artists. Red Zero is named after two of the earliest places Ingram played in Clarksdale ...

INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

Mud Morganfield has never felt any pressure following in the Chicago blues tradition of his famous father, Muddy Waters. The music just couldn’t be denied. Morganfield was compelled. “I tell people, I ...

The composer and musician Raphael Saadiq, nominated for best score and best song at the Oscars this year, talk to THR about ...

Bill Frisell, one of the world’s most acclaimed jazz guitarists, was puzzled. At the conclusion of the first of his two Oct. 1 shows at the rebranded, reengineered and reborn New Orleans Jazz & Blues ...

Celebrated blues musician Eric Bibb releases his latest studio album, entitled One Mississippi, on January 30 via Repute Records. Bibb’s last album, 2023’s Ridin’, was nominated for a Grammy for Best ...

You can take the boy out of Central New York, but you can’t take the Central New York out of the boy. Take Monk Rowe, for instance.

DAVENPORT, Iowa — The Blues are back at LeClaire Park in Davenport for the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival. The festival was canceled last year after rainouts in 2022 and 2023 left the Mississippi ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The Philadelphia Blues Society is hosting its first-ever annual blues festival at ...

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