Chris Rea, the beloved British rock and blues singer, known for 'Driving Home for Christmas', has died at 74. His music, ...

Musician John Mayall, often referred to the “godfather of the British blues,” whose bands of the late ’60s and early ‘70s featured some of the most notable rock instrumentalists of the era, died ...

In the beginning, there was blues. It poured out of the American South on acoustic guitars and pianos and made it up north ...

The 1970s gave us some of the greatest blues-rock music ever recorded, but not every masterpiece got the attention it deserved. While everyone knows Led Zeppelin and Cream, dozens of brilliant albums ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Nick Gravenites, the blues singer and guitarist for The Electric Flag and songwriter for Janis Joplin, has died, his family announced. He was 85. “I regret to inform all of you ...

While synths and new wave brought in the decade and glam metal closed it, there were still plenty of acts championing a blues rock sound and thriving in the 1980s. In looking back at the roots of rock ...

Blues rock will never die, even if its biggest era has since passed. Countless artists made it big in the 1960s and 1970s with their unique spins on blues rock, and some of them are still making music ...

Leilani Kilgore spent years cutting her teeth as a blues guitarist, but she was never really a “traditional” blues artist. The Nashville-based singer-songwriter launched her solo career (which very ...

Muddy Waters got it right with his anthemic song, “The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll.” And few figures ever personified that evolutionary link as clearly as Big Joe Turner, the ...

Devon Allman’s "Blues Summit U.S. Tour" will open Aug. 7 at the Raising Cane's River Center in Baton Rouge. Allman and Ruf Records announced the tour along with the release of a new album titled ...