The Whitney Museum of American Art presents 'Blues for Smoke'
REVIEW - The Whitney Museum of American Art exhibit, 'Blues for Smoke,' features an exciting array of works by a wide range of contemporary black artists. But it offers so much more...
Blues guitarist Magic Slim dies in Pa. at age 75
(AP) - Magic Slim, a younger contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf who helped shape the sound of Chicago's electric blues, died Thursday. He was 75...
theGrio’s 100: Gary Clark Jr, brings blues music to a new generation
theGRIO's 100 - Born and raised in Austin, TX, Gary Clark Jr. began playing guitar at age 12. He performed small gigs throughout his early teens before being signed to major record label...
Pa. merchant finds rare Robert Johnson record
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Pittsburgh record store owner has found what he calls "the holy grail of 78s" in a box of old albums he picked up for $50...
Buddy Guy among the 2012 Kennedy Center Honorees
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dustin Hoffman and David Letterman will soon find themselves in company they never expected in the nation's capital...
B.B. King returns to Mississippi hometown
(AP) - Blues superstar B.B. King is returning to the grounds of the old Mississippi Delta cotton gin where as a teenager in the 1940s he worked as a tractor driver...
Blues legend Robert Johnson could get highway honor
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi House has voted to name part of Interstate 55 for blues great Robert Johnson, whose most famous song is about a crossroads...
Jagger, B.B. King, ready to sing blues for Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mick Jagger, B.B. King and Jeff Beck are teaming up with musical up-and-comers at the White House to celebrate the blues...
Legendary soul singer Etta James terminally ill
RIVERSIDE, California (AP) -- "At Last" and "Tell Mama" blues singer Etta James, whose health has been fading in recent years, is now terminally ill...
Hotel provides no-frills Miss. blues experience
CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) - It's not the Heartbreak Hotel or the Ritz, and George Washington didn't sleep there...
