Planning to attend the Kasauli Rhythm and Blues Festival 2025? Discover event highlights, places to stay, where to eat, and ...

Little Bill and the Bluenotes helped shape Washington’s blues scene, playing across Washington for more than fifty years.

Sue Foley's inaugural GW column kicks off with a bang! Blues you can use, people. This part one of a two-parter introduces ...

Rhythm and Blues wasn’t just a genre—it was a powerful force in the fight for civil rights. In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores ...

That’s basically what happened to rhythm-and-blues singer Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton with her song “Hound Dog.” If you know the song, you might only know “King of Rock-and-Roll ...

Back in 2007, music fan Nick Duckett walked into a record shop hoping to buy a comprehensive history of rhythm and blues on CD. To his surprise, the owner told him no such set existed at the time.

Roberta Flack, the gifted rhythm and blues singer and pianist, passed away February 24 from cardiac arrest. She was 88 years old. Flack developed ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease ...

He added it in a winking nod to Aykroyd, whose passion for rhythm and blues had inspired the film’s true mission. In search of the true 'mission from God' I grew up with “The Blues Brothers ...

A display featuring an inflatable saxophone along with musical notes attached to a pole blow in the wind at Bayfront Festival Park in Duluth during the 33rd annual Bayfront Blues Festival. Rhythm ...

The rhythm and blues and jazz singer closed out the first festival, when there was one stage, she told Gambit’s Kaylee Poche , and she’s been a fixture ever since. Festivalgoers can catch her ...

Meade “Lux” Lewis didn’t just record a blues—he conjured a rolling landscape of rhythm and motion. Cut in 1928, “Honky Tonk Train Blues” demanded a great deal of the pianist ...

Bill Englehart was known for his role in the "Little Bill and the Bluenotes," which released "I Love An Angel." ...