There's a song written by the jazz singer Billy Eckstine with Sid Kuller called "Blues, the Mother of Sin" that has always been instructive to how I think about the blues and its ...

The lyrics of Across the Universe, inspired by Lennon’s interest in Transcendental Meditation, feature cosmic and poetic ...

Nobody Black had the leverage to negotiate a good deal in the Jim Crow South. Despite the vampires in the film, the real ...

The legendary Robert Johnson, a blues icon, whose life story of struggle and talent, particularly the myth of a deal with the ...

As the legend goes: bluesman Robert Johnson “sold his soul” to the devil at the crossroads of Route 49 and Highway 61 in ...

The Delta Blues Museum tells the story of sharecroppers turned legends, handmade guitars, and the raw sound that traveled from cotton fields to Chicago clubs and shaped everything from rock to hip-hop ...

The list below of the Top 40 Songs of 1965 highlights several great and culturally seismic tracks from the year’s biggest ...

It’s always exciting to see what he puts together in conversation, and “Sinners,” his period supernatural horror gangster film, is his greatest distillation of his gifts for making music out of ...

And there are a lot of songs from artists who fit into that category. You may think you’re familiar with Chris Rea’s “Texas,” which was a minor hit for the British blues rocker back in ...

“Ballad of a Thin Man” appeared on “Highway 61.” When the musicians had finished recording it, the drummer Bobby Gregg said, “That is a nasty song, Bob.” Indeed it is. “Ballad of a ...