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 ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to Smithsonian curator John Troutman and blues musician Dom Flemons about a new folk album, Playing for the Man at the Door, from late chronicler Mack McCormick's collection.

Adrian S. Potter delivers a bold collection of prose and poetry that explores grief, identity, and the modern human ...

A massive and closely held collection of blues music and research from the 1950s and 60s is seeing the light of day. The collection is from Robert "Mack" McCormick, who died in 2015 at age 85 and ...

The collection, now housed in the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, consists of all the programs in the series, as well as the unedited interviews and performances that were excerpted for ...

The largest free blues festival in the world lived up to the hype with a glorious weekend of great blues music across 4 days in Chicago. (OK, there was one hour of rain on Sunday when we waited in the ...

Bluesman John Primer is the real deal in the blues - as the band's name reflects. Primer is one of the few Chicago bluesmen still touring from a generation of blues legends of which he was a part, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. A still from 'The Blues Society.' Mention the historic music festivals ...

Robert “Mack” McCormick’s life was all about the blues. His Houston home was stuffed with reel-to-reel tapes, research files and vinyl records. But by the time he had died at age 85 in 2015, few ...

Blues music is a soulful genre. It has roots deeply embedded in the Black experience. Blues has long been a powerful expression of the struggles, joys and resilience of Black life in America.

Joe Kimble, a professor emeritus at Cooley Law School, has amassed a collection of over 260 pieces of blues and rock and roll memorabilia. The collection includes items signed by Chuck Berry, the Funk ...