The first flowering of country blues on records happened in 1926. It seems there were 25 or 30 records by blues artists on or related to the 1927 flood. The songs present a variety of commentary ...

When elements of R&B became integrated with white country music it became rock 'n' roll. If you were to meet a typical character from a blues song he would most likely be down on his luck ...

Besides playing country blues ... On “I Kept These Old Blues,” she delights in interpreting vintage songs by Elizabeth Cotton (“Shake Sugaree” and “Freight Train”), Mississippi ...

Mamie Smith made history in February 1920 when she became the first African-American singer to record a blues song, That Thing ... toured the country with vaudeville tent shows spreading the ...