Everything about the blues is call and response. When Elmore James sang that he’d be gettin’ up in the mornin,’ believin’ he’d dust his broom, there’d be two bars of gritty guitar to follow. The ...

They’ve racked up four billion streams worldwide with a deliciously throwback blues-rock sound. Jökull Júlíusson performs as the lead singer of Kaleo. (Courtesy Evan Kaufmann) Now, the pride of ...

You don’t get the nickname “Lightnin’” for no reason, especially when you’re a blues artist. Born March 15, 1912, in Centerville, Texas, Samuel John “Lightnin’” Hopkins became one of the most ...

Ever since donning the iconic black hat, suit and shades of Elwood Blues in John Landis’ 1980 blockbuster The Blues Brothers, ...

Europeans have long played a vital role in the preservation of American music: There have been scholars such as Paul Oliver, an Englishman who in the 1950s and ’60s published some of the earliest and ...