Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones owe their lives to the impact of American blues music, but Jagger's childhood love of the ...

Looking at the importance of blues pioneer Ma Rainey, who pioneered LGBTQ+ representation in music during the 1920s through ...

Batiste’s latest album is a return to his classical music roots — on his terms. Hear him improvise on some of Beethoven’s classics.

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The slaves brought the musical traditions of their African homelands to America and, with limited resources for playing music ... Delta blues artists often worked solo, accompanying themselves ...

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In 1920 she made history as the first African-American artist to make vocal ... Muddy Waters transformed the music of the Delta into modern electric blues. His influence was at the heart of ...

Mention the historic music festivals of the 1960s and ... The festival co-founders intended to celebrate and preserve the blues while giving these artists their due. “That's also one of the ...

Enslaved people would sing work songs while working the plantations and religious spirituals in church. Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues.