The album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, which features the iconic composition “All Blues,” is the best-selling jazz album of all time. Hardly a day goes by that the recording isn’t written about on ...

A local festival brought the rhythm and soul of blues music back to Macon on Saturday, giving people a chance to kick back and take in the Southern tradition. Dozens gathered on the lawn of the Mill ...

There’s music in the air across Macon Saturday with not one but two free outdoor events: the first-ever All Blues Music and Arts Revival and the 20th Jazz and Arts on Riverdale. Music starts at 1 p.m.

INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Smithsonian curator John Troutman and blues musician Dom Flemons about the new folk music album, Playing for the Man at the Door. DOM FLEMONS: This is a collection that ...

Now 73 years old, R.L. Burnside doesn’t know what “retirement” means. At an age when most folks would be content to settle into their easy chairs, the former sharecropper instead became the Nineties’ ...

Carl “Buffalo” Nichols knows the question is coming, and he can’t help but smile. “Should I be careful or should I be honest?” he says, Zooming in from a hotel room before a show in Englewood, ...