Joe Bonamassa plays Albert King's 1971 custom-built "Lucy" Flying V-style guitar made by Dan Erlewine. After the 1960s blues boom, the genre began to lose traction as rock, metal, punk, rap and ...

The youngest band to perform at the recent Baton Rouge Blues Festival, the Juke Joint Juniors feature middle and high school students enrolled in the West Baton Rouge Museum’s Blues After School ...

Texas guitarist/singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Carolyn Wonderland, 52, has accumulated quite an impressive resume of recording projects, collaborations ...

Applehead performing at re:HAB Bar On The Bayou. Credit: Photo by William Allen Ralston I first Met Dennis Clapp aka Applehead in Rehab back in February of this year on my birthday; no not the type of ...

ST. LOUIS - In celebration of the enduring spirit and impact of blues music - the eponymous genre that gave this hockey team its name back in 1967 - the St. Louis Blues today debuted the opening notes ...

At just 27, fast-rising blues dynamo D.K. Harrell is probably a bit too young to be the subject of a feature film. But so many aspects of this Louisiana native’s life are worthy of big-screen ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

New to the blues? Here’s what you need to know to get you started. Blues music is a genre that grew out of the American dream. Its roots were firmly planted in the New World before it migrated to ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Mike Zito Twenty years ago, singer-guitarist Mike Zito was in talks to sign with blues labels Alligator Records and Ruf Records, ...

One of Kathy Golik’s first memories of Laura Branigan was in 1982, when the 30-year-old singer of the new hit song “Gloria” performed at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. The ...

On Nov. 14, nine days after the 2024 election, violinist Dave Kline had a booking at Blues Alley that he called “The After Party.” The aptly named Dave Kline Band (whose music might best be described ...