In the beginning, there was blues. It poured out of the American South on acoustic guitars and pianos and made it up north where it turned electric. But the core remained the same. It was rhythmic. It ...

Musician John Mayall, often referred to the “godfather of the British blues,” whose bands of the late ’60s and early ‘70s featured some of the most notable rock instrumentalists of the era, died ...

The 1970s gave us some of the greatest blues-rock music ever recorded, but not every masterpiece got the attention it deserved. While everyone knows Led Zeppelin and Cream, dozens of brilliant albums ...

Blues rock will never die, even if its biggest era has since passed. Countless artists made it big in the 1960s and 1970s with their unique spins on blues rock, and some of them are still making music ...

July 28, 1981. Dressed impeccably in a three-piece gray suit and white hat, blues great Albert King strides down the single staircase from the tiny green room and onto the stage of the Maintenance ...

While more emphasis was given elsewhere, these seven acts leaned into blues rock and helped it thrive in the '80s.

Musician John Mayall, who was known as the “Godfather of British Blues,” died Monday at his home in California, his family announced. He was 90. No cause of death was given. “It is with heavy hearts ...

Leilani Kilgore spent years cutting her teeth as a blues guitarist, but she was never really a “traditional” blues artist. The Nashville-based singer-songwriter launched her solo career (which very ...

Jeff Beck, the blues-rock innovator and two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee who revolutionized how the guitar is played, died Tuesday at the age of 78. Beck’s family confirmed the former ...