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 ...

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 ...

An OU professor and historian weighed in on the historical backdrop of the hit film 'Sinners' currently streaming on MAX ...

Daniel de Visé, author of definitive B.B. King biography, "King of the Blues," will discuss his book in Memphis on Oct. 16.

Discover the real roots of the blues across Mississippi’s towns, fields, and juke joints that still carry the sound of history.

The music and entertainment titan known for his legendary A-list "white parties" had multiple mansions, a private jet, a business empire and scores of accolades. Then in September 2024, he was ...

WMAR-2 News is celebrating Black Music Month, spotlighting some of Baltimore’s most influential and genre-defining Black artists.