Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. T-Bone Walker. Jump blues was a style of music that developed in the 1940s and was an offshoot of the big bands of the day. It was ...

The first thing that you have to accept when you write a book about early blues music, Dr. Gregg Kimball says, is that you’ll never solve the mystery of it all. “We just don’t know,” says the author ...

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Wheeling, WV — WHEELING, W.Va. — The 24th Annual Heritage Music Blues Fest is set to enliven Heritage Port this weekend, offering a vibrant array of blues styles along the Ohio riverfront. Festival ...

The Piedmont blues is among the musical styles they recorded. A handful of other researchers also made non-commercial field recordings of Black folk music in the Piedmont region in the 1920s and 1930s ...

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Those behind the project hope to see a similar program launched in schools across the city. “This really is a test run to pilot it,” says Diana Covington-Greer, a music resource specialist at the ...