There are few figures in blues history as notable as Muddy Waters. Born McKinley Morganfield in 1913, Muddy was cetral to the evolution of the genre, from its beginnings as the folk music of the ...

In 2005, fans and scholars of early jazz and blues were handed the keys to a buried treasure chest: an eight-CD set of recordings that New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton had made at the Library of ...

For decades, one of the most legendary private collections of early blues music was just that - private. Now it's available for everyone's ears. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DOM FLEMONS: This is a collection ...

It is hard to overstate the impact of the ‘60s British blues guitar scene, when a new generation of guitar heroes mined the original source of blues playing and put their own spin on it. In doing so, ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

A relatively unknown blues musician with ties to Bowling Green will soon have his name thrust forward again as the first ...

Blues fans sometimes pay big bucks to hear their favorite artists, but at the annual Bluebird Blues Festival at Prince George's Community College, fans can hear artists for free. The college is ...

DOM FLEMONS: This is a collection that was just - it was known as The Monster. DETROW: That's blues musician Dom Flemons. FLEMONS: You know, you always hear that for each musician that recorded, there ...