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 ...

I grew up listening to him play old country blues music, and I grew up listening ... I had an idea that I wanted to do each song in the first or second take because that was how the old blues ...

But there are a few songs from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ... On Friday (June 7) the duo released their mesmerizing live ...

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 ...

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 ...