We must examine the Mississippi Blues form first. The most famous of the Delta Blues singer-guitarists are Robert Johnson, Son House and Skip James. These men played unamplified steel string ...

Celebrate Women’s History Month with music featuring the early blues women of Naptown during the 1920s and ‘30s.

Blues has been called the first truly American music. The colour blue has described melancholy and depression since Elizabethan times, but as a musical form its style was born from the experiences ...

In fact, it was a woman she had never met – the legendary blues singer Bessie Smith. Jackie’s first introduction to Bessie came in the form of a record she was gifted by her father.