(ThyBlackMan.com) When discussing the most influential blues musicians of all time, Howlin’ Wolf stands in a league of his ...

In addition to being a Grammy Award-winning artist, Beyoncé is a mother of three, recently giving birth to twins. Sir and Rumi Carter were both born on June 13, 2017, with Essence Magazine reporting ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something about Buddy Guy that hits you right in the gut—the way he bends a string, the way his voice trembles with heartbreak, the way he pours a lifetime of joy and sorrow ...

On Elvis’ birthday, it’s nice to go back to where it all started. The first track of Elvis’ first album, “Blue Suede Shoes” set the tone for a lot of his early music. While Carl Perkins wrote and ...

One of the biggest misconceptions about blues music is that the genre is all about doom and gloom. Naturally, many blues songs feature lyrics about being down in the dumps, love lost, and heartbreak.

For a very long time now, I’ve been hearing about the forthcoming release of Balladeers, Redefined, a massive new compilation that surveys a whole lot of the stuff that’s happening on the ...

This isn’t a book for the fainthearted. It’s certainly not for the puritanical. This magnificent, raunchy exploration of early blues lyrics contains references so scabrous they would make a pirate ...

The double album seems to be a rite of passage for all great rock bands, and the Electric Light Orchestra delivered theirs in 1977 with Out of the Blue. Jeff Lynne and company were at the top of their ...

A song called "Blue Genes" by former American Idol contestant Ash Ruder is going viral, thanks to the buzz—and confusion—surrounding American Eagle’s latest ad starring Sydney Sweeney. Ash Ruder told ...

The story goes that the lyrics to “Black and Blue,” the jazz standard popularized by Louis Armstrong, were written at gunpoint. In 1929, the songwriter Andy Rafaz (born Andriamanantena Paul ...

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