Few singers have ever conveyed the troubles, heartache, and loneliness of the blues with a softer, more elegant touch than Charles Brown, one of the most popular and influential pioneers of postwar blues on the [...]

Lifelong New Orleans resident Antoine “Fats” Domino turned the infectious piano rhythms of the Crescent City into Top 40 hits as one of the few African American performers to cross over to the top ranks [...]

Ellas Otha Bates McDaniel, better known as Bo Diddley, was born in McComb, Mississippi in 1928, and moved to Chicago in the mid-'30s, where he eventually would shock the music world in 1955 with his [...]