Erstwhile Kinks guitarist and power-chord pioneer Dave Davies recalls the vinyl discoveries that set him on his lifelong rock ...

John Lennon had solo hits before the Beatles even broke up. Here's a countdown of his 40 best songs, from "Instant Karma!" to "Imagine" and beyond.

The Baby Boomer generation came of age in the middle of the 1960s during a cultural revolution that included a ...

Often, this enduring blues song is attributed to Blind Willie Johnson, but others theorize it predated him due to its call-and-response song structure.

On a warm fall Thursday night in the heart of New York City on October 1st, a host of the world's best blues artists came ...

Two months past his 90th birthday, Buddy Guy is still up for a little bragging, a lot of cursing and a long night of partying. The blues great was celebrated Thursday night with a sold-out show at ...

The 1960s were the decade when the blues got louder. American blues artists including Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King and John Lee Hooker had already established the ...

With Alex Van Halen and David Lee Roth reuniting publicly for the first time since 2015 at a TEDxFargo event on 30 July, tongues were always going to be a-wagging. Will they or won’t they record ...

Many music writers and historians consider Gertrude "Ma" Rainey the matriarch of American blues. Beginning her career in the dust of Southern tent shows and minstrel circuits, she became one of the ...

BMG has announced its acquisition of the remaining interests in the songwriting works of the publishing catalogs of John Lee Hooker, Hal David, and ARC Music — three major archives that it is no ...

Dillon played with artists like Rufus Thomas, Sam Myer, William Bell, J.T. Watkins, and McKinnley Mitchell, to name a few. He ...