"An underground art form that decent church-going folks stayed well-away from." Film Movement has debuted an official trailer for Deep Blues, a music documentary from 1992 that has been fully restored ...

Memphis, Tennessee, is known around the world as the home of the blues. It helped create soul. It invented rock ’n’ roll. And ...

Two songs that are poles apart are now vying for top popularity among U.S. song hits. Biggest hit of the moment is the novelty handclapping number Deep in the Heart of Texas. Its childishly simple but ...

Robert Mugge's new film "Deep Roots: The Art and Music of Bill Steber and Friends" premieres in Memphis during Blues Music Awards week. The free premiere takes place May 7 at Blues City Cafe on Beale ...

Two blues enthusiasts an ocean apart spent nearly two decades collaborating on a book they envisioned as the definitive history of the blues in Texas. Robert “Mack” McCormick was a Houston-based ...

Local fans of Deep Ellum have their own impressions and memories of the neighborhood, but many tourists to Dallas’ entertainment district are unaware of the its storied past. If Deep Ellum’s walls ...

This warm 90 minutes documentary shows us unknown blues musicians from Mississippi. They play everywhere : on the streets, in dirty little bars, in a barber shop, in big clubs. The film really ...

Mississippi and Mid-South artists Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Eden Brent were among the winners at the 2026 Blues Music ...

In 1980, music journalist Robert Palmer was invited to drop by the sessions for John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy in New York. When Palmer arrived, Lennon was adding background vocals to ...

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 ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - In an area with a rich history of both music and art, an effort is underway to highlight that heritage and introduce a new generation to the past. It's called "Blues Alley," ...

It is no small compliment to state that esteemed British journalist Charles Shaar Murray's liner notes here are fully complementary to John Lee Hooker's slightly less than an hour of playing and ...