When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The recent passing of the ‘godfather of British ...

Muddy Waters once sang: "the blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll." But it's more than rock… the blues makes a strong case for itself as the most influential sound in American music ...

Almost by the time the flames had gone out on his mangled Stratocaster and the wreckage had stopped smouldering, Jimi Hendrix’s performance at the Monterey festival in California in June 1967 had ...

Mick Abrahams, the original guitarist for Jethro Tull and a key force behind their debut album This Was, has died at 82. See ...

• WUFT News: In 1960s Gainesville, interracial blues bands helped bridge the gap in the city's music scene. "Charles Steadham is no stranger to blues music. He has been playing the blues for years, ...

Etta Baker, 93, an influential blues guitarist who recorded with Taj Mahal and was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts, died Sept. 23 at her daughter's home in Fairfax County. The cause of ...

After leaving Jethro Tull, Abrahams went on to found Blodwyn Pig, a blues-rock group that earned critical attention in the ...

For a few years in the 1960s and 1970s, one of the music world's most extraordinary showmen was a Georgia-born rhythm-and-blues singer named Wayne Cochran. Inspired by the vocal styles of soul ...