Many Blues musicians believe Williamson was the greatest harpman in the Blues. He wrote and recorded what may be the most moving Blues song of all time," Help Me." This song has been recorded by ...

Bessie Smith had probably the most famous song on the flood, but there's a peculiarity to it. It was recorded before the flood. "Back Water Blues" was recorded in February 1927, before the great ...

“Great collaboration, great artists, wonderful harp work, Junior at his best and a wonderful, staccato blues song, not exactly in a traditional structure of 12-bar, a more progressive ...

To celebrate Women's History Month, TSPR Brings you Her Story, Her Song, a daily program celebrating many of the amazing women in the world of folk and Americana music.

If you were to meet a typical character from a blues song he would most likely be down on his luck, having trouble with his unfaithful woman and no doubt drowning his sorrows with whisky.

Musicians who had left the South during the Great Depression ... from one of his songs. BB King was another musician who earned acclaim during the nostalgia boom for the blues in the late 1960s.

The blues is a style of music created by African Americans at the end of the 19th Century. It developed out of folk music, spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally ...

If you were to meet a typical character from a blues song he would most likely be down on his luck, having trouble with his unfaithful woman and no doubt drowning his sorrows with whisky.