What is the least obvious environment for creating deliciously tortured and often devilish blues music? For John Hammond, the answer is easy: church. The pioneering singer-guitarist has been ...

What is the least obvious environment for creating deliciously tortured and often devilish blues music? For John Hammond, the answer is easy - church. The pioneering singer-guitarist has been ...

In June of 1964, three white blues fans drove to Rochester, N.Y., and knocked on a door, hoping to find a lead in their quest to track down a blues legend. They’d already searched the Mississippi ...

After sitting in a cardboard box for nearly 60 years, a collection of previously unreleased Son House recordings will finally see the light of day with the arrival of Forever on My Mind on March 18, ...

Living Colour, a band that still makes Vince and I feel like giddy fanboys, are currently working on a new album, and now we have our fist sampling of music from that album: a cover of Robert ...

An extended break has allowed a Thousand Horses to return with their most fan-friendly song yet. "Preachin' to the Choir" can easily slot into the group's one-of-a-kind live show. Like "Smoke" from ...

Guitarist/vocalist Son House was a powerful, impassioned performer and a pivotal figure in Delta Blues. University of Rochester professor Dan Beaumont has announced his forthcoming book, Preachin’ the ...

Some of the new millennial writing about blues music, such as Elijah Wald's Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Amistad, 2004) and Ted Gioia's Delta Blues (Norton, 2008) ...

Sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell named their southern blues band Larkin Poe , after their great, great, great, great-grandfather, who was a cousin of that Gothic master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe ...

Overflowing with psychedelic garage beats straightahead soul and voodoo riffs RampB and a goodly portion of downhome funk the music of the Imperial Crowns is an explosive mixture that defies ...

There’s a new Living Colour album called Shade coming out! On September 8! That’s practically next week! I am more excited than a tween girl meeting Harry Styles!!! Following the release of the most ...

Living Colour still don't have a title or release date for the follow-up to their 2009 'The Chair in the Doorway' LP -- but guitarist Vernon Reid definitely has an idea of what fans can expect to hear ...