(ThyBlackMan.com) With a career spanning over seven decades, Bobby Rush stands as one of the most resilient and influential figures in American music. A master of blending blues, soul, and funk with ...

During Blues Traveler’s formative years, as college students playing bars in New York City, the musicians were happy to have friends and other musicians join them onstage. Having people sit in and jam ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - As with many young talented blues-based guitar pickers over the last 50-plus years, singer-songwriter-guitarist Gary Clark Jr. was often tagged as yet another new Hendrix for his ...

MO Fest — The Blue Note and Rose Music Hall's annual January music showcase — rambles on, with more acts from Columbia and around the state loosely grouped by style. After an opening weekend of ...

This tremendous song has been stuck in my head all week, thanks to a friend alerting me to its recent listing on eBay. A few years ago, a seller had a box of deadstock, but those went quickly, and the ...

Russ Kellum is music’s equivalent of the comic book superhero the Phantom; you never know where he might show up, but when he does, he is sure to make an impact that’s unforgettable. Whether he is ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...

Blues singer Lauren Mitchell comes to the Funky Biscuit in Boca Raton with her band on June 23 to support her third album “Desire.” “This is the first time with a show of my own,” Mitchell said about ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (WIBW) - A new book from the University of Kansas, ‘Groove Theory,’ explores the foundations of blues in funk music. The University of Kansas says Tony Bolden, an associate professor of ...