What it did: Popularised Johnson’s great creation myth – that his fame was the result of a deal made with the Devil at a rural crossroads. What came next: Johnson died at 27, cementing his Faustian ...

Zwei Tage lang regierte nach der Corona-Pause wieder der Blues im Herzen der Stadt: Fünf Bands standen im Wettbewerb German Blues Challenge, den das Münchner Trio „Muddy What?“ gewann. Endlich wieder ...

The fusion subgenre known as blues rock came together in the early 1960s in the US and UK. It didn’t really kick off in a massive way until the late 1960s and early 1970s, during which some of the ...

Das Guitar Heroes Festival in Joldelund ist unter Blues-Freunden bestens bekannt. Aus ganz Deutschland und auch aus Dänemark reisten Musikfans mit Wohnmobilen an und freuten sich auf Musik unter ...

The blues might be the quintessential American musical genre. Born out of hope for the future and a recognition of the dark, at times, inhumane past, the genre has spawned big names, important music, ...

„In der Zeit, in der ich aufgewachsen bin, war Blues die Musik des Teufels. Und was hast du, wenn du einen Haufen Musiker zusammentrommelst, um Blues-Songs zu spielen? Eine Orgie der Verdammten!“ So ...

Völklingen. Kleiner kann eine Band kaum sein als die David Geis Band, die am Dienstag im Alten Bahnhof Völklingen den Fans der Reihe Tuesday-Station-Music deren Dosis handgemachter Blues- und ...

The Doors have released the song “Paris Blues,” the band’s "last known unissued studio recording." “‘Paris Blues’ traveled a long and winding path to its release, taking on a mythic quality among ...

Blues has been called the first truly American music. The colour blue has described melancholy and depression since Elizabethan times, but as a musical form its style was born from the experiences of ...

As part of our series about students and teachers, musicologist Bruce Nemerov describes the way that one song is recorded by several different musicians in different decades of the 20th century. The ...