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Before Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones, they heard the blues live —and were inspired to change rock music forever ...

From his locked room, Chester Burnett could hear the trains rattling up the tracks, one every half hour. They reminded him of home, back on Dockery Plantation, when he played on the porches of old ...

His name was Chester Arthur Burnett, but everyone called him Howlin' Wolf. He played harmonica, but some say he was the greatest blues singer of all time. His unique voice mesmerized audiences and ...

A lineup of heavy-hitters from both in and outside the Grateful Dead extended universe will unite for 'Help On The Way' in New Orleans.

Director Don McGlynn has been in the business of making heartfelt, low-budget documentaries of important but marginalized musicians for 20 years now. Performers such as Art Pepper, Charles Mingus and ...

Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

When members of Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys and The Pogues came together for a new project, one thing remained blatantly apparent, their devotion to storytelling through a folk-rock lens. “We ...

Sam Phillips once referred to Howlin' Wolf's voice as "where the soul of man never dies." Phillips, who worked with dozens of great Memphis... Howlin' Wolf: A Blues Legend With An Earthy Sound Howlin' ...

Howlin' Wolf's masters from the Chess label have just been released on a four-disc set titled Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1931-1960. When your father has worked a good piece of ...