Thirty-four years ago today, the world lost a massively influential blues artist and songwriter who helped shape music for decades to come.

Nick Gravenites, a Chicago blues musician who relocated to San Francisco in the 1960s and played an important role in that city’s burgeoning rock scene, died September 18, after many months of failing ...

To celebrate his 89th birthday on Wednesday, legendary musician Buddy Guy released a new album of Chicago blues — appropriately titled, "Ain't Done with the Blues." The album features an assortment of ...

On her new album, Shemekia Copeland sings of an influential Black musician who helped change popular music and of telling the devil to go to hell. In another song, she rhapsodizes about drinking a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few figures in American music loom as large as Muddy Waters. A transformative force in the evolution of modern blues, Waters bridged the acoustic traditions of the Mississippi Delta ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

The 33-year-old blues musician first came to the city as a fan attending the Chicago Blues Festival. He’s now a staple of the local blues scene.

The Rick “Poppa Dawg” Halisheff Trio will perform Chicago-style blues at a concert in Summerland later this month. The trio ...

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Veteran Chicago blues guitarist Toronzo Cannon got married this summer and moved to Minnesota about four months ago. “I’m like a cat in a new house,” he said with a laugh. Although he may have ...