When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Australian Music Prize 80-year-old Walmatjarri elder and blues musician Kankawa Nagarra ...

On this day (November 24) in 1993, Albert Collins died after a short battle with cancer in his Las Vegas, Nevada, home. He was 61 years old. Throughout his career, Collins made a name for himself with ...

Two years ago, renowned blues guitarist Buddy Guy began his farewell tour, and though he just turned 89, he hasn’t stopped yet. Guy is on a mission to exalt the blues — this deeply American music — ...

Joe Louis Walker, a raspy-voiced singer and guitarist who took an expansive approach to the blues, recording gritty, down-home albums as well as acclaimed records incorporating gospel, soul, jazz and ...

Singer-songwriter Ryan Lee Crosby calls his latest album an “authentically made modern-day analog field recording of a century-old blues tradition.” The new album, “At the Blue Front,” was released ...

Nothing says “I’m hurtin'” like the wail of a mournful guitar. It’s a sound that melts the heart and pierces the soul. While the blues saw a resurgence in the ’80s and ’90s, it’s fallen off the ...

A t his regular spot — the stool with “BG” on the back, way at one end of the bar — the owner of Buddy Guy’s Legends scans the hundreds of people packing his club. Tugging off the pandemic-era mask he ...