Merced County blue band “Mike Hammar and the Nails” recently released their third album titled “Raised in the Dirt.” Pictured ...

NEW YORK -- When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — ...

Not to be confused with its lighter-touched country rock cousin, Southern rock mixes blues, soul and country and spins it ...

Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week.

“Beethoven Blues,” due Nov ... performing the entire song is posted on YouTube. Growing up in Kenner and attending both St. Augustine High School and the New Orleans Center for Creative ...

Years ago, a Moline man found a mysterious, misplaced vinyl single. We traced the song back to its local roots.

Country music was as much a state of mind and geographic location as it was a musical style. Sure, it had resonator guitars.

Unreleased Jimi Hendrix songs are among an array of memorabilia belonging to the late musician that is set to go up for ...

When Diana Ross chose to make her feature film debut playing the role of Billie Holiday, in the biopic Lady Sings The Blues, released on October ... and the title song. It’s a poignant reminder ...

On October 9, 1971, ‘Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna ... Going On album had been released in May, four months after the title track had signalled Gaye’s dramatic new change of direction.