The songs of Sleepy John Estes constituted a poetic, personal and insightful body of work that both portrayed and transcended the everyday troubles, hardships, and meager pleasures of life in Brownsville, Tennessee. As Ray Harmon [...]

Although Billie Holiday is most widely hailed for her revolutionary role in jazz history, she is also indelibly associated with the blues - not so much in the musical structure of her material as in [...]

McDowell, a seminal figure in Mississippi hill country blues, was one of the most vibrant performers of the 1960s blues revival. McDowell was a sharecropper and local entertainer in 1959 when he made his first [...]

Albert Luandrew, better known as Sunnyland Slim, became a legendary figure in Chicago blues history long before he died, and he lived to be inducted in to the Hall of Fame and garner a National [...]