At an age when most girls listen to Taylor Swift on repeat, Muireann Bradley is immersing herself in old blues songs from America’s Deep South.Credit: Supplied Now Muireann, who turned 18 this ...

You’ll find it in many old blues tunes, such as some by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, through the later recordings of Eric Clapton and many others. The examples I offer here are played in the ...

Most blues songs are about personal experiences and personal ... the blacks would just pitch in after the flood to restore the old order, and give volunteer labor so they could go back to being ...

Slash released an album of blues and soul standards that no one was expecting, then took the show on the road to support community causes ...

If you were to meet a typical character from a blues song he would most likely be down on his luck, having trouble with his unfaithful woman and no doubt drowning his sorrows with whisky.

Guitar legend T-Bone Walker, top, pioneered the jump blues style of the 1940s, and BB King, above, headed the blues revival in the 1960s Chattanooga-born Bessie Smith, nicknamed the Empress of the ...