Music can significantly boost your mental health – delivering benefits similar to those provided by exercise or weight loss. It can also reduce feelings of anxiety and physiological measures of stress ...

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 ...

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 Ayesha Rascoe talks to jazz musician Sherman Irby about his new show at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, "Birth of the Blues," exploring the origin of the blues and its continued ...