Their first signing and highest-profile blues singer was Ethel Waters. Texan Maggie Jones was on the project’s ground floor, ...

Included in Freeman’s show are songs stretching as far back as 1927, with Blind Willie Johnson’s landmark 1927 recording ...

The actor's part-music-part-cinema production about the history of blues will take the stage at Ravinia on Aug. 1.

Actor John Pleshette (“Knots Landing”) is 83. Actor-director Betty Thomas (“Hill Street Blues”) is 78. Singer Maureen ...

The term “Blues Summit” implies a gathering of guests. Whether Devon Allman was inspired by B.B. King’s Grammy-winning 1993 ...

Haley performed “Rock Around the Clock” on national television when Ed Sullivan introduced him on a broadcast televised from ...

Stax Museum's "B.B. King in Memphis" photo exhibit features images from King’s 1982 Labor Day weekend concert at the Mud ...