In honor of Black History Month, The Current is exploring the origins of Black music in America, what came after, and its ...

As we celebrate Black History Month, these songs remind us of the rich cultural heritage of Black music and its influence ...

Sammy Hagar and Joe Bonamassa have teamed up for a new stand-alone single. You can hear the dark, bluesy "Fortune Teller ...

Billie Holiday's "Gloomy Sunday", a song so unhappy it apparently ... in the cradle and the bottle ain’t comin’ fast enough, he got the blues. And I ain’t lyin’. Everybody have the blues.” ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

The blues is a style of music created by African Americans at the end of the 19th Century. It developed out of folk music, spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally ...