Mahal says the future of the blues depends on remembering its origins, from the Mississippi Delta to "the mother continent," ...

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What would the movie “Jaws” have been without the music? How about “Grease,” “Dirty Dancing” or any of Quentin Tarantino’s pictures? The horror movie “Sinners,” written and directed by Ryan Coogler, ...

Miles Caton was prepping for his first-ever movie role when the film’s director Ryan Coogler sent him a playlist of essential blues music. “It had the greats on there — Charley Patton, Buddy Guy, B.B.

With his acclaimed interpretations of Delta Blues standards, he was a fixture on the Greenwich Village music scene for decades. By Clay Risen John P. Hammond, a singer and guitarist whose virtuosic ...

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Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North. Sheer joy of ...

Prudence is always welcome, and we have sound pragmatic reasons for managing our relations with African nations with tact. The proclamation went out anyway, communication technology being what it is.

Guy bursts into good-natured laughter, but he’s actually not kidding. He is part of the foundation of American blues, old enough to have played with Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, B.B. King, Little Walter ...