MARSHALL, Texas (KLTV) - It’s commonly accepted that the roots of rock and roll go back about 170 years to the beginnings of boogie woogie music. And that music began in East Texas along the railroad.

Known for his electrifying live shows, boogie-woogie and blues pianist Henri Herbert is acclaimed as one of the most thrilling musicians on the contemporary blues and rock scene. His dazzling ...

MARSHALL, Texas (KLTV) - The music which started Rock and Roll began right here in East Texas about 150 years ago. And at the Texas and Pacific Railway Museum at the Marshall train depot, you can ...

Rock ’n’ roll exploded out of Memphis in the 1950s, but the East Texas town of Marshall helped build its launchpad decades earlier. On Sept. 26 and 27, Marshall (pop: 24,000) will celebrate its ...

Sue Palmer became a San Diego favorite in the 1980s and 1990s as a key member of the bands Tobacco Road and the world-touring Candye Kane & The Swingin’ Armadillos. But when this award-winning pianist ...

The Black Crowes brought a different kind of party to the Stagecoach country music festival Mane Stage, lighting up the crowd with rock 'n' roll, boogie woogie and R&B on Sunday. The Atlanta band ...

When a friend of Fats Domino‘s invited filmmaker Joe Lauro to hang out at Domino’s New Orleans house in the early 2000s, he knew he had to make a film about the rock & roll architect. More than a ...

From Seattle to Paris Wendy spreads the gospel of Chicagobased blues piano and boogie woogie. She’s well steeped inthe stylings of Otis Spann, Memphis Slim, Sunnyland Slim andAlbert Ammons - the ...

Huey “Piano” Smith, the R&B pianist and composer whose 1950s hits “Don’t You Just Know It” and “Rockin’ Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu” added New Orleans spice to the early rock ‘n’ roll recipe, died ...

Antoine "Fats" Domino, the jovial New Orleans entertainer whose bluesy singing and boogie-woogie piano style helped launch rock 'n' roll in the 1950s with such rollicking songs as "Blueberry Hill," ...

For two hours on Thursday, the Verdugo Aquatic Facility in Burbank served as a Hawaiian getaway for area senior residents. About 200 people flocked to the city’s pool to attend the sixth annual Rock-a ...

Attaboy—ya see the road okay?” Robbie Shoults says in his deep East Texas drawl as he sidles up to my ten-year-old son, Crosby, in Shoults’s side-by-side. Crosby, peering a few inches over the wheel, ...