"I Wish You Would," a 1955 single for Vee-Jay Records, exemplified the creative flair of the then 19-year-old blues phenom who recorded and composed the song, Billy Boy Arnold. Its catchy riffs and propulsive rhythmic [...]

"Merry Christmas Baby," the first Yuletide song in the Blues Hall of Fame, remains a perennial favorite years after its first release by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers, featuring Charles Brown on piano and vocals, in [...]

"Blues at Sunrise" was one of several signature pieces contributed to the blues canon by pianist Leroy Carr, one of the most influential bluesmen of the pre-World War II era. Carr's litany of woes is [...]