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

Because the genre of blues music is so old and dates back even before vinyl records and other recording means, there remains a significant amount of mystery regarding its early years. Born in the ...

Jim Croce and Ingrid Croce welcomed son A.J. in 1971. Here’s everything to know about Jim Croce’s son, A.J. Croce.

It is impossible to think of American music in this century without such Southern-derived forms as ragtime, jazz, blues ... the older traditions - such as old-time fiddling and string band ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and ... at the experience people are having at the time. Typically, blues artists write out of their ...

Alabama songwriter Early James embraces jagged, moaning blues on his upcoming third album Medium Raw. Ahead of its Jan. 10 ...

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

Almost five years after millions of TV viewers saw and heard Jovin Webb on “American Idol,” the Gonzales native is releasing ...

Lorna Wu's rendition of "The Ballad of the Witches' Road" is the latest version of the song. Marvel showrunner Jac Schaeffer ...

Kristofferson, who died Sept. 28, was a Rhodes Scholar and an Army Ranger before taking a chance at songwriting. "Me and ...

The Mississippi River moved and shaped jazz, delta blues and more. From local coverage to the presidential race, MinnPost's ...

Musical heroine Mavis Staples joins the buzzed-about act The War and Treaty for a gospel revue at the Arlington Theatre.