He could jump into the stream of blues like a fish since he was already in the musical swim of things. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She sounded disaffected, cool, all blues and violets, the opposite of the hot ember glow that burned inside Maya. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Still others projected their hurts and longings into more naive and mundane forms—blues, jazz, swing—and, without intellectual guidance, tried to build up a compensatory nourishment for themselves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In all jazz, and especially in the blues, there is something tart and ironic, authoritative and double-edged. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks ago, under a pile of old sheet music and practice books, I found a yellowed book of boogie-woogie pieces, and old-time blues and rock. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The clouds present diffuse bands of tender grays and blues, and below them the ocean does the same. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He saw light sparkle from the old glass in the window, and the rug came alive with blues and warm golden tones. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Brilliant greens, blues, and reds only your imagination could match. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to hold his blues harp and sink it down between his lips while he savored those notes and chords. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He stuffed his blues harp deep into his pocket. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Then the fresh soft strains of jazz blues, like waking up from a long sleep. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scolded Cool Papa for playing his blues records too loud and for wearing his shades inside the house. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The sun sank into the horizon and exploded in hot oranges and blues. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But his blues harp might as well have been an ocean away. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I think I'm going to go out to the blues fest tomorrow and have some blues to calm my nerves. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cool Papa sat First Guitar on her stand, and Clayton shook the spit out of his blues harp, wiped it with his pajama sleeve, and tucked it under his pillow. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

There are strobe lights, flashing blues, yellows, and grays. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

False color image of the Great Red Spot, in which the computer has exaggerated reds and blues at the expense of greens. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the holiday season neared, my dad seemed finally to shake his blues. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’ve never seen colors so intense, not just blue and yellow and red, but the deepest blues and brightest yellows and most vibrant reds you’ve ever seen. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My dad makes up lots of crazy blues songs. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The deep scarlet turns into a mild mix of blues, greens, and yellow. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Those are Cool Papa’s blues people. He meant them for me!” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Clayton put on his baseball jacket, tucked his blues harp in the jacket’s deep pocket, and then sat by the window. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

On the car radio he played with relish the twang-twang blues type of music and his TV preferences were westerns. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes, which had been murky and dilated while he was ill, were now the clearest of blues. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Clayton didn’t want to imagine the sound of his blues harp. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The water was a beautiful turquoise, a color it took Ivy at least thirty minutes to get right, mixing the blues and greens until it was perfect. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He reached for his blues harp, deep in his new pocket. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She’d batted her baby blues at him while she said it too, so Rishi knew it wasn’t the kind of adorable you think your baby brother is. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Train Ear held the blues harp aloft, ready to throw it onto the tracks. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He swirled his brush in one of the blues, then handed it to me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A send-off wouldn’t be a party without the blues to ferry Cool Papa Byrd on his journey. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Papa took one look at me and saw I had a bad case of the ringtail blues. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reds, blues, greens, and yellows flashed down on him. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was thick and dark, and where it gleamed in the glavelight the glints were warm reds, not cool blues. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Photographs of shrimp boats and fishermen with their splendid catches of blues and whitings lined the walls from top to bottom. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Mother’s shack is the mere peak of a roof surrounded by a blaze of pinks, blues, oranges. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She threw back the pillow where his silver blues harp lay. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I guessed I'd resolved the soul and sin thing by lapsing from my heavy-duty Catholic background, giving up my immortal soul for a blues kind of soul. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I may have pressed pause on curing my parents’ blues with my mood-music playlist, but I couldn’t quit on Operation Save Fig. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The girl was made of all the blues, and little sparks shot out from all her edges, shards of glass falling off and away. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I sure J get the blues. Life’s hard. I worked hard, too. I been good.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’ll know more about blues than any trombone when her mama gets home.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She listened to Janis sing the blues, her voice filled with suffering, yet tenderness. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother’s voice took all of the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been fascinated by the colors of the desert, the blues, the purples, the yellows of the minerals lying on the surface of the earth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No more blues,” she said, waving the silver harp. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I moved with the crowd, the sweat pouring off me, listening to the grinding roar of traffic, the growing sound of a record shop loudspeaker blaring a languid blues. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peanut butter crackers were bad for playing the blues harp, but they were okay after a day of anger and starvation. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Wearing the same dress- blues uniforms we had graduated in the Friday before, we stood at our tables and snapped to attention when the training lieutenant, Wilkin, entered the room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room is dimly lit—a single lamp, in the corner by the couch, washing the deep blues of the walls neutral. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That was a lyric from one of Cool Papa Byrd’s blues songs. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

From the street outside he caught the sound of a harmonica playing a blues song and he knew that the music was played by William, his son. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Bluesmen, the lovely ladies in hats, the people who loved his blues guitar-playing had all read the folded paper and were not pleased. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t show them what he, Clayton Byrd on blues harp, really had to say, but he could play with the rhythm and speak their language. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Gorging on sweets didn’t chase away the blues as it had a week earlier. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

From down the street a tinny- sounding radio oozed out a slow blues. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They painted circles and dots on her head and cheeks—white for Obatala, reds and yellows and blues for the other gods—and crowned her with the sacred stones. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clayton stretched and opened his eyelids just as the violet of night turned pale blue and before white-yellow sun streams ran the pale blues out of the room. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Look sharp. Be cool. When it rains down on you, you won’t have to ask because you’ll be crying the blues on that harp.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Organizers invited an exhilarating mix of performers: there would be rock and roll, rhythm and blues, folk and country. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Above, the sky was darkening fast, melting into a fluid watercolor blend of deep blues, oranges, and pinks fractured by the telltale lines left from the Rupture. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Clayton did have his blues harp, and that was the main thing. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I seen plenty a womens get the baby blues after they done birthing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Blues scales, used in blues, jazz, and other African-American traditions, grew out of a compromise between European and African scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

About my perception: everything is sharp and clear, each sensation heightened and illuminated so that reds and yellows and blues glow. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

My white T-shirt glowed in the twilight, banded in modern art speckles of fungal reds, yellows, and blues. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The officer got up, went to a cubby, and returned with a plastic bag containing the book bag and the blues harp, which he placed on the desk. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

They do the same with blues and reds and yellows. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petals burst out from every edge of the twin ovals in soft pinks, deep whites, even heather blues, but somehow each one has a uniqueness, a vibrancy that feels like it’ll bloom forever. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Hunger and soreness from running, climbing, wailing on his blues harp, and plain old not-eating. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The flowers all start to swim together, the blues and the pinks and the whites all twisting and turning and blurring together, the colors coming off the page and reaching toward me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The reds and blues were as bright as oil paints. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

June’s room was pretty, all soft blues and greens with white wood furniture. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They have the lace collars, the puffed sleeves, the sashes I remember; many of them are in plaid, the authentic somber blood-lit colors, dark greens with a stripe of red, dark blues, black. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Byrd had a low opinion of the blues. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The blues rise from the chipped tiles in the kitchen. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember how you and Mama used to dance sometimes to the blues?” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Vincent thinks the painting should be framed in a flat, bright orange; that will look good with the blues of the background and the dark green of the trees. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Syrian brothers vied for her attention as she sang the heavy blues that Bailey and I almost understood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes to hear the blues. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It was a church rhythm, wrapped up in the blues. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He didn’t understand why he was thanking the pastor, but he understood his mother was mad and embarrassed and would blame his blues harp for his rudeness. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

So when he saw Cake, they said whatever they said, and then Wood gave him the blues.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I know what they are,” Clayton’s mother sang flatly—but not in the flat notes that gave the blues its funk. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

A barrelhouse blues was being shouted over the stamping of feet on a wooden floor. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together, they played a sweet, sleepy blues riff. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He didn’t remind her it was a blues harp. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Hungry for the last bit of blues, the people clapped and called out, “Play that thang.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The melting pot that is America has yielded brand new genres such as big band, jazz, blues, rock and roll, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, almost all my classmates had family members packed into the motel’s conference room, where, in dress blues, we were presented with diplomas and badges. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A follow-up might focus on blues, jazz and other genres inspired by the music of the Civil Rights movement. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He knew that she lived with her mother and stepfather, sinful people, given to drinking and gambling and ragtime music and the blues, who never, except at Christmastime or Easter, appeared in church. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The walls are a deep blue, the covers on his bed are a plaid mix of blues. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Coach was heading our way in the taxi; if he caught us standing, he would give us the blues. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Piano chords loll in the speaker of the wireless in the guard station, projecting rich blacks and complicated blues down the hall toward the key pound. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But they move the harvest scene of yellows and greens and blues from Arles and hang the baby’s almond tree in the most prominent place in their flat, above the piano in the drawing room. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Long loops and strands of yarn dangled out of the cubbyholes, and the browns and grays and purples were mixed in with the ochres and olive greens and dark blues. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His grandfather, of course, was Cool Papa Byrd on blues guitar. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

A jam-packed four-thirty a.m. crowd at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack or Dickie Wells’ might have such jam- session entertainment as Hazel Scott playing the piano for Billie Holiday singing the blues. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep down where a good blues bend would start from. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Typically, folk, blues, rock, marches, and Classical-era46 music is based on relatively straightforward chord progressions, but of course there are plenty of exceptions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

That Train Ear was holding the blues harp with the wrong side up. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He painted it in Arles, a harvest scene of yellows and greens and blues. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was now the blues in the air. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He might not have a gutbucket cry or a round-the-corner-and-back-again bend, but he couldn’t let go of the blues any more than he could let go of Cool Papa. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have his blues harp in his hand or in his pocket so he kept that observation to himself. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He kept his arms at his sides, his ears open, his silver blues harp tight between his left thumb and pointer finger. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She’d forgotten about taking Clayton’s blues harp away and kissed him on the forehead, which he wiped with his jacket sleeve. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The smoky aroma hits us on the sidewalk, and a blues song pours outside. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Clayton said, “We could go to Washington Square Park. They play the blues down there.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She liked to sing along, especially to blues songs. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Herman E. Calloway was making everybody feel like they had the blues, it looked like Mr. Jimmy’d just wiped some tears from his eyes too. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the red receded, and blurry blues surrounded me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He puts his hands on my shoulders and looks into my soul-ish innards, it seems, with those piercing baby blues. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When she was sober she hummed mostly or chanted blues songs, of which she knew many. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no mention of his grandson, Clayton Byrd, as his blues protege. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

They offered to play a tribute, but Ms. Byrd thanked them kindly and firmly and said, “No blues music of any kind.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The desolate landscape was painted in blues and grays by the moon. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The lantern colors change from deep blues to emerald greens as we enter the Garden Quartier. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Electric blues sparks jumped out into the night. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Didn’t Cool Papa tell the crowd earlier that the blues was more than a song, it was a story? Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He looks at me and laughs so loud, we almost don’t hear the flashing blues behind us.Game lime: 6:00 p.m. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, room three is decorated in pale blues and seashells, and the window is opened a few inches so the sea air can come in, even in the cold. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Bluesmen agreed that they could sure use a man on blues harp. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Jack Rabbit Jones on keyboard laid down smooth chords with his left hand while the fingers on his right hand hip-hopped across the twelve-bar blues trail. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

In a blues song, somebody’s sad about something. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My mom and dad like a kind of music called “blues.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When Day wasn’t working the night shift, he and Henrietta spent evenings at home, playing cards and listening to Bennie Smith play blues guitar on the radio after the kids went to sleep. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He looks at me with those baby blues. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He looks more like a blues musician than a government employee. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But Mama said the blues makes you feel the hurt deep down in your gut and the blues is about how much colored folks go through in life and love. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I look at slides, planaria worms in section with their triangular heads and cross- eyes, bacteria colored with vivid dyes, hot pinks, violent purples, radiant blues. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everything he felt, everything his blues harp was to him, was coiled around his rapid breathing. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I can almost see em, swaying here in my kitchen, dancing to the blues. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He almost reached for his blues harp but let it stay in his pocket. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Behind the bar a stained glass window of liquor bottles glowed: the blues of English gin, the deep reds of claret and Madeira, the tawny browns of scotch and bourbon. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a remarkable bird, as large as a pheasant, but with feathers of all colors, garish reds and yellows and vivid blues. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She and William saw them at dusk, when “the sky was so very lovely, too, maroons, lavenders, blues.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

On the floor, a rag rug in blues and reds. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His lungs and soul were ready to pour out his own story through the ten square holes of his blues harp. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Inside the jail, Ben and Sammy could hear the semisweet, candently primitive rhythms of jukebox blues diffusing out of unseen nightclubs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one’s painted in darkly pearlescent greens, blues, and blacks. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But the folded paper with a beautiful sunset did not mention one word about the blues. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The blues have been played more than once for the red planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby was a cluster of men wearing mismatched uniforms, the greens, grays, and blues almost indistinguishable from my distance. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The music was low, funky blues, and he swayed to it. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only some of the overhead lighting has been left on, and Alex can see an enormous chandelier looming high in the rotunda, tendrils and bubbles of glass in blues and greens and yellows. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The guys that play the blues with Cool Papa. The guys who’re usually here. Jack Rabbit Jones on keyboard. Big Mike on bass. Hector Santos on whatever he can hit. The Bluesmen.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

We Lindy-Hop until the blues leak out of our fingers, until the music ends and shades of sunrise streak the sky. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were brighter in the morning light; more blues, sharper browns. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Ms. Byrd wasn’t there to catch them sneaking in after a day of playing the blues in the park. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Ivy could draw it, the loneliness, a wispy cloud the color of a clear sky just after sunset, all deep blues and purples. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They weren’t solid gray, but filaments of a hundred different grays and blues and pearls, and they looked like reflections of light wavering on water, with the softest sunburst of amber haloing his pupils. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was a blues, and I walked along behind him remembering the times that I had heard such singing at home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the lights were turned off, and the blues dancing started, she wanted to be in his arms in a dark corner, but he said, “Let’s go outside and talk.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I could tell the difference between popular tunes and the blues. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the music of the blues clubs. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

On weekend evenings they gathered around the old upright piano in the club’s parlor and sang for hours as Don Hume tore through jazz tunes, show tunes, blues, and ragtime. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t fun being away from things, especially if his mother stayed home with him and he couldn’t play his blues harp. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Sounds a lot like the blues,” he says finally. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

And his grandfather never called the blues harp a harmonica. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Until I returned to Cuba, I never realized how many blues exist. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might as well have been a blues song, the way it asked a question that needed an answer. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The aquamarines near the shoreline, the azures of deeper waters, the eggshell blues beneath by grandmother’s eyes, the fragile indigos tracking her hands. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, I can play some blues,” Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Furnished in elaborate velvets, silks, and brocades, it’s a riot of scarlet and deep blues and greens, everything rich and dark, like overripe fruit. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The calico slipped out of its knot; I pushed back the layers of muslin and uncovered a rainbow of patches—ticking and shirt cloth, gingham and calico, in faded blues and greens and yellows. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was the same iron bedstead, and the quilt was multicolored, faded but still cheerful with reds and blues and greens and yellows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his blues harp out of his pocket. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He used to give me the blues in the ring, so bad, but I still liked him. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

There were beautiful pinks and blues and reds and browns and purples. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He joined the children’s choir to be close to music that sounded like the blues his grandfather played. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The sunset, rosy, orange, nacreous in spots, flecked with pastel blues and streaks of lavender and blood, reflected gorgeously in those few school windows not yet broken. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept his blues harp in his jacket pocket and rubbed his fingers across the holes every now and again. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He wore Roman sandals with the lacings coming to his knees, a short skirt of feathers and a war bonnet all of which were painted in bright reds, blues and yellows. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bluesmen said, “Later,” at Forty-Second Street, then changed trains to hit a few blues clubs uptown. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Clayton had slipped his blues harp in his pocket while he was getting dressed. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

A trail of blues floated across her mind as his car turned the corner, drifting away and then disappearing, just like him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

To be sure, he wiped it again before sinking the blues harp deep into his mouth. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The paintings too—mostly oils in deep blues and greens—had sea themes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If he was with us, he’d be with us. Instead of looking for the blues.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

That old blues song Pilate sang all the time: “O Sugarman don’t leave me here,” except the children sang, “Solomon don’t leave me here.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t as good as Jimi Hendrix,” he said, “but he play them citified blues, anyway. I’m thinking about writing a blues number for you. I’m gonna call it “The Serious Stink Blues.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had just gotten his blues harp back, and he wasn’t ready to let go of it. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Then Tea Cake went to the piano without so much as asking and began playing blues and singing, and throwing grins over his shoulder. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

If ever he needed the deep-down blues, now was his time. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The lights in each room are specially treated, greens and blues in one, reds and oranges in another. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

That was because the name on the folded paper was not Cool Papa Byrd, as he was known on the blues circuit, uptown and downtown. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Nice catch,” Beat Box said, his eyes fixed on the blues harp. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It was all light blues with white furniture and a white fireplace with small stone lions on either side and another vase on a dark table filled with pink roses. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Some blacks were able to cross over into the white markets in the forties if their talents were not too much connected with the blues or low-down black music. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He raised his harmonica to his lips, cupped his hand around his blues harp, and sucked in hard to show his grandfather. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I search those pieces, the borrowed blues, reds, and violets, blended with glimmering flesh. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The cop took out the silver blues harp, looked at it, looked at Clayton, then dropped it into a larger plastic bag. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

But he slid his hand into his pocket and felt his blues harp. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It looks like an oval of colors, greens and blues, yellows and purples, all constantly shifting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A blues king, not a sickly old man, barely making it. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It’s filled with different-colored inks, reds and blues and blacks, and a couple of sparkly fluorescent colors from a gel pen kit I got back in sixth grade. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Now the stone was covered with hunting tapestries, vivid with greens and browns and blues, and yet still it seemed to Ned Stark that the only color in the hall was the red of blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Each voice faded out: keyboard, bass, percussion, blues harp, and blues guitar. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Why you want to mess that up? Forget the blues.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

In addition to the brick-colored final coat there were others: dabs of green to control redness, pinks to add blush, blues above the eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If she drew herself right now, she’d use all the watery blues, her whole solid body dripping and melting into a puddle like the Wicked Witch of the West. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If Ivy drew them right now, she’d use all primary watercolors, bright blues and yellows, but softly blended and with delicate lines. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“We don’t play the blues,” Train Ear said. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.68: Jazz or blues with a "swing" rhythm often assumes that all divisions are triplets. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The lake would sparkle with reds and blues and greens, like a mirror, and the picnickers would make low sounds of appreciation. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Cool Papa taught him his first blues scale on the harp. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Behind the mourners from school days’ past sat the throng of people who had heard and loved his electric blues guitar licks. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

His hand went for his pocket, but his blues harp wasn’t there. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It’s kinda cool to watch the blues and pinks and yellows swirl around and get soapy. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Before him now lay the path, illumined; and when he turned, he saw that the world that had been darkness was returned to him, magnificent in deep blues and grays and black, streaked gold. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not be sure of the kind of whale because he didn’t know enough to identify them, but he thought they might be blues, and they literally almost filled the bay. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others change from pastel pinks to sky blues to lemony creams. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

My daddy listened to the blues back in Alabama on an old scratchy record. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Happy people need the blues to cry, and sad people need the blues to laugh. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The prospect of having his blues harp taken was more than he could bear. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He stuck his blues harp in his pocket and followed the Beat Boys to the other end of the platform. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“You don’t dig the blues, do you, daddy?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives this painting more colors: blues and greens, browns and whites, orange. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Since their school didn’t offer band or lessons on musical instruments, Ms. Treadwell let Clayton accompany the class on his blues harp a few times—something he’d never told his mother. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Repeated them until they became his blues riff and he could hear Wah-Wah Nita’s hot electric licks whine in between his lyrics. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The morning sun lit the island like a painted backdrop from an old Hollywood movie, all greens and golds, pinks and blues. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Tossed the blues harp to Clayton, who didn’t expect it, but caught it. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It was like counting while playing the blues harp. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Frank sang the blues, and he drank too much. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The jewel tones shift from ocean blues to cobalts and magentas, from crimson reds to sunflower yellows. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Whether I play the blues or boogies, concertos or cantatas, I forget about me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The countryside speeds by, fields of blues and yellows and reds and greens, the patches and swirls of summer. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I wonder what Mr. Langston Hughes feels about the blues. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

For music that has been combining elements of both for long enough to have developed its own traditions, listen to any jazz, blues, gospel, Latin dance, or reggae. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Mama, of course, is glued to the color picture, oohing and aahing at the vibrant reds and blues of the team. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Imagine that O’Connor had written Herons are opportunistic hunters, but great blues defend a fishing hole even when it’s frozen. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I worked the Visit Room with Colton, wearing the dress blues that officers had to put on for any post that brought them into contact with the general public. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air blues with evening as we enter the little ruin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dad, a pillar of stone, dressed like usual in his Class A blues. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On “Prairie Burn,” she issues rugged, two-handed counterpoint; dense smashes of harmony; and simmering blues improvisation. For Mara Rosenbloom, Piano as a Remedy and a Force in Jazz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

After cool jazz came "hard bop" — a return to the edginess of bebop combined with the emerging "rhythm 'n' blues." How Miles Davis electrified jazz 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

Rock ’n’ roll is a form of sped-up blues to me. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Embraces N.W.A, and Ice Cube Is Cool With It 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

This captivating movie, like the blues itself, is at once a recognition of those somber truths and a gesture of protest against them. Review: In ‘Two Trains Runnin’,’ the Convergence of Idealism, Brutality and Artistic Genius 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

The music; rhythm and blues, the blues, rock and roll. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

Gnawa music has distinct regional styles with different tunings and melodic inflections; the repertory has songs in pentatonic scales akin to West African music and the blues, as well as songs that use Arabic-sounding modes. Music Review: Mystical Morocco Bursting With Tribal Rhythm 2011-05-22T21:45:10Z

For decades, the road was their "home away from home" and, as they progressed from the smallest blues clubs to record-breaking arena tours, they pioneered production techniques that revolutionised live music. Watching the Stones Roll 2012-07-11T07:16:18Z

There are bright reds screaming at top volume and gorgeous oceanic blues. Critical Shopper: Now, Something for the Body Eccentric 2011-05-03T21:28:42Z

Hammami responded: "'I'm on a mission from God.' minus the blues music." – seemingly a reference to the film The Blues Brothers. US 'jihadist rapper' claims to have survived attempt on life by al-Shabaab 2013-04-26T16:53:38Z

Laurie's other great passion is music and he is releasing his debut album called "Let Them Talk", which celebrates the blues sound of New Orleans. VIDEO: Hugh Laurie: 'This is a dream' 2011-05-09T10:28:24Z

Her upbringing in Dallas and Memphis helped instill in her a deep appreciation of the blues. Kay Starr, ferociously expressive singer who had pop hit with ‘Wheel of Fortune,’ dies at 94 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Delta blues man Robert Pete Williams may have been the only person who cared less about conventional tunings and structures than the late Captain Beefheart, who covered his song Grown So Ugly in 1967. Readers recommend: songs about change ? the results 2010-12-23T22:31:01Z

No, it's the blues, pure and simple, with fuzz for frills. New band of the day ? No 964: SuitCase 2011-02-09T16:48:37Z

The blues stomp "Let the Records Play" evokes a bar band staggering toward last call. Pearl Jam fights for relevance 2013-10-11T20:14:00Z

“Pops’ death was such a turning point for her,” said Bruce Iglauer, the founder of the independent blues label Alligator Records in Chicago. Music: A Little Nudge, and a Soul Singer Is Back to Her Roots 2010-09-19T04:35:00Z

Trading in swampy, muddled blues filtered through fuzzed-out distortion, it evokes that of early Black Keys but stretches out longer by adhering to a lazier pace. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z

She then released three superb albums and toured internationally, delighting audiences and critics with her uniquely Balkan blues. Ljiljana Buttler obituary 2010-05-12T17:43:00Z

Taylor’s music fused the hymnal to the blues, rock-and-roll to country, Robert Frost to Woody Guthrie. James Taylor’s strength was melancholy. Now he must cope with contentment. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Sculptures and paintings from major African artists appear throughout, and rooms are furnished in deep blues or cool shades of green and cream. The Four Seasons The Westcliff Johannesburg Is Set to Reopen 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

His last album, What Good Am I to You?, included acoustic folk-blues, country blues and stomping electric styles that echoed his hero Jimmy Page. Marcus Bonfanti: Shake the Walls – review 2013-06-20T22:30:00Z

White, who is known for singing in a plaintive voice that straddles the line between punk rock and the blues, first gained fame with drummer Meg White in Grammy-Awards winning rock duo The White Stripes. Rocker Jack White and wife throw a divorce party 2011-06-10T20:44:22Z

Berry and Hiseman accentuate the sleazy blues feel of My Lover's Coat, and Whyman explores his arsenal of clarinet effects on Yellow Tracery. Mike Westbrook/Kate Westbrook: Fine 'n Yellow 2010-07-29T21:50:00Z

From his approach over the past two decades, he appears to prefer a blues legacy — and he treated much of Sunday’s concert like a rundown of that classic repertory. Review: Onstage, a Subdued Eric Clapton Focuses on the Blues 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

The club has a door to the little Rum Boogie Café's Blues Hall next door, considered one of the last real blues sanctuaries on Beale. What to Do in Memphis 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

In contrast to musicians who find a single approach and won’t budge, he continued, “Jeff has that ability to be comfortable in many styles: hard rock, jazz, funky blues, even opera.” 2010-02-12T21:05:00Z

“Then one night, I saw Magic Sam in a little blues club on the South Side,” he said, referring to the blues singer and guitarist born Samuel Maghett. Lonnie Brooks, Bluesman Who Had a Hit With ‘Sweet Home Chicago,’ Dies at 83 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Often described as “alt country,” Uncle Tupelo was young men channelling old music—Depression-era country and blues—often on pre-war flattop guitars, mandolins, steel guitars, and so on. Wilco’s Music for Adulthood 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

King forces us to think about the custody of the blues itself. The thrill is gone. So is B.B. King. Now what happens to blues music? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The orthochromatic film used in the twenties distorted natural shades: reds and yellows showed up dark and blues hardly showed at all. Hollywood Costume – dressing the part 2012-10-12T21:55:14Z

This time the Mad Hatter was an omniscient narrator of the song’s music-biz blues. Tom Petty, Classic Rocker? Sure. And Weird Video Star, Too. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

His “Studies for Player Piano” that accompany this drama are strange and compelling; their several simultaneous strains and fragments contain blues, jazz and chaos within a larger modernist collage. Review: Merce Cunningham’s ‘Crises’ Opens Dance at the New Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

And now, he’s a Grammy-nominated artist, with a recent nod in the Best Traditional Blues Album category for Cypress Grove, a record he hopes will help preserve the Bentonia blues long after he’s gone. In Mississippi, small-town bluesman keeps aging music alive 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

But it was the exotic jumble of “code blues” and oddball walk-ins that helped keep “ER” going for 15 seasons. Television Review | 'Miami Medical': The Bruckheimer Formula in a Hospital 2010-04-01T22:33:00Z

They see blues and yellows, but orange looks the same as green. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Secret Life of Dogs’ and Other Canine-Friendly TV 2013-08-11T21:10:39Z

After its maiden edition in 2007, the Aulnay All Blues festival became a major event, attracting some of the biggest American names in blues. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z

A half-century on, bossa nova is as familiar a musical style as the blues or the waltz. Blame it on ‘Jazz Samba’: Bossa nova craze started in D.C.

Bobby "Blue" Bland, the blues and soul singer whose most memorable songs included Further On Up the Road and Turn On Your Love Light, has died. Singer Bobby 'Blue' Bland dies at 83 2013-06-24T14:59:59Z

There are lines between blues and Mississippi hip-hop, but they're meandering, and very thin. Flow like the river: Big K.R.I.T. and Mississippi's flood of hip-hop 2013-03-27T10:43:27Z

That gig turned into a full-time job that gave Verlinde his first exposure to blues and folk music, and legendary artists like Richard Thompson and Ted Hawkins. Jason Verlinde celebrates seven years of Fretboard Journal 2012-10-21T19:02:04Z

Not russets, not Yukons, not reds, not blues. What if latkes were made with asparagus? 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

The shimmering cityscape that is the story’s setting is about as subtly lighted as a nuclear explosion, with intense, flamelike blues and reds. 'K Missing Kings,' Part of an Urban Anime Series 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

At just over a hundred and thirty pages, “Essayism” is easy to run through; I find these quick, hot reading experiences especially intimate—if the writer’s obviously down, you catch a bit of his blues. More Books We Loved in 2018 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

It’s a good song, but it’s not a blues. A Long-Ago Interview with Dave Van Ronk About the Blues 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

There’s always been this sense of the blues somehow related to trauma as well as a kind of transcendence. How Glenn Ligon Is Using Black and Blue to Begin a Dialogue 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Club Ebony, a famed blues venue in Indianola, Miss., that was part of the chitlin circuit — a loose network of Black-owned clubs and venues in segregated American cities — has hosted hundreds of memorable moments. Club Ebony, a Historic Blues Venue Tied to B.B. King, Rises Again 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

This is jazz with bop, blues and gospel elements, oriented around standards and common-practice harmony, casual but wide awake. Playlist : New CDs: Jesse Davis, Cyrus Chestnut, Bobby Womack 2012-06-10T04:23:03Z

Others glow with the weathered confidence of old-timers, their faded olives, burnished oranges, sun-bleached blues and yolk yellows providing just the right measure of heft. Bart Exposito displays a love of line and a certain playfulness at Susanne Vielmetter 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

He sang in French Creole and in English, leading his band in two-steps, waltzes, shuffles, blues and funk, all of which kept dance floors active. Stanley Dural Jr., Founder of Buckwheat Zydeco, Dies at 68 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

Aqua blues and peony pinks looked especially saturated, and the embroidery and hand-cut leather were beautifully done. On the Runway Blog: Versace's Couture Show Embraces Color and Texture 2012-07-01T22:27:15Z

In an obituary Feb. 21 for blues guitarist Magic Slim, The Associated Press erroneously described his album "Bad Boy." Correction: Obit-Magic Slim story 2013-02-22T22:02:12Z

Organizers said on Wednesday they hoped dozens of music artists and fans of Latin jazz, gospel and blues music would join in the demonstration, and attend an alternative concert. Axed musicians to protest outside Grammy Awards show 2012-02-08T19:14:18Z

The blues disrupt categories of good and evil and reveal the victims of demonizing rhetoric. Lil Nas X’s dance with the devil evokes tradition of resisting, mocking religious demonization 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

Funk was a rhythm of its own, a world out of the blues that was a solid intricate beat that through soul and rhythm kept moving down the road. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

The highway is my home, and my Dodge van is my bed, and the blues is my companion.” James Cotton, hard-blowing harmonica master of the blues, dies at 81 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

I loved boogie woogie and blues piano, but also London music. Is music tribalism dead? 2011-07-23T23:07:50Z

There is continuity in the blues — from pale, watery sky to deepest Prussian — and gorgeous mayhem otherwise, a montage-like fracturing of forms and breathlessly destabilizing incongruity of scale. 'All the Flowers' turns blooms in LACMA artworks into a photogram bouquet of blue 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Mostly what remains is an unremarkable mix of grunge and rock with a smattering of classical and blues, a reflection of a certain time in our lives. From Our Children: Retreating to Memory With a Song 2012-09-25T15:15:07Z

Along the way they will learn about swing, make up a blues song and, the publicity material promises, shake their groove things. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 11-17 2013-01-10T23:09:44Z

Iggy started out as a bright, rather ordinary kid who one day decided to end his academic studies in favour of finding the essence of "real black blues" in the gutters of Chicago. An initiation into Iggy Pop – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-04-30T14:30:19Z

"When we first began to play together, Robin and I wanted to emulate our heroes who were all black country blues artists," Yeterian explains. Mama Rosin: Some like it hot 2011-01-06T22:29:00Z

I thought it needed to because the plane would draw you to the purples and the blues. ArtsBeat Blog: Getting Noticed at the Fringe: 'Fourteen Flights' 2011-08-17T12:00:30Z

His main instrument was the National steel guitar: a gleaming Art Deco-style instrument with a broad dynamic range, often played with a slide and associated with deep blues. Bob Brozman, Guitarist, Is Dead at 59 2013-05-02T00:36:58Z

In La Cañada Flintridge, the concluding concert of Descanso Gardens’ summer performance series will feature the ragtime and Dixieland blues band. 12 picks for family-friendly culture in August 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Hendrix absorbed influences from the Brits, fusing them with his blues roots to create a unique sound that remains unmatched nearly a half century later. Short life, lasting legacy of Jimi Hendrix chronicled in new film 2013-11-04T13:59:23Z

With co-lead guitarist/vocalist Jeremy Spencer, Green fronted a powerful quartet that delivered a stirring brace of Chicago blues covers and some of their own similarly styled material. Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac founder, dies at 73 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a collection of solo acoustic blues songs, a mix of originals and standards by Mississippi blues legends like Howlin’ Wolf, Skip James and Robert Johnson. Bobby Rush Lived the Blues. Six Decades On, He’s Still Playing Them. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

That will soon change thanks to the Killer Blues Headstone Project, a nonprofit effort to bring belated recognition to long-forgotten blues musicians. Grave marker project helps bury the blues 2013-12-30T14:37:27Z

“He liked a lot of records and a lot of artists — not just popular artists but the ‘bubbling under’ artists too-and was sensitive to music, whether it was jazz or gospel or blues or pop. Al Schmitt, Grammy winning engineer and producer, dead at 91 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the big question for Mr. Clapton at this stage is whether he will be remembered primarily as a blues guitarist or as a rock innovator. Review: Onstage, a Subdued Eric Clapton Focuses on the Blues 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

“Bye Bye Blackbird” is a celebration of chasing away the blues once and for all: no antidepressants needed. New Music: A New Album From Paul McCartney 2012-02-06T16:02:08Z

“It’s more eclectic now,” said one longtime patron, Nelson Onofre, before a recent show by a blues band, the Nighthawks. Iridium, Jazz Guitar Shrine, Expands Beyond Jazz to Survive 2011-11-11T21:39:59Z

A shot of SC and a beer chaser carried my blues away. Surprise! Southern Comfort Has No Whiskey. But Soon It Will. 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

“For instance, they want flat hex tiles, but instead of black and white, we’ll see more modern color combos like blues and grays.” Tiny tiles are back in a big way 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

From time to time Vennett will cast his baby blues toward the camera to tell us that something didn’t really happen in quite the way it’s being shown — or that, incredibly enough, it actually did. Review: In ‘The Big Short,’ Economic Collapse for Fun and Profit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The husband-and-wife pair behind @purveyors_of_packaging present vintage boxes, bottles, and cans in the same vitrine-like format, making the reds, yellows, and blues really glow. Instagram’s Endangered Ephemera 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

He has a new live double album, “The African Nubian Suite,” that explores jazz and blues expression as it relates to the African diaspora. Jazz Listings for Dec. 2-8 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

The old blues attitude, of surviving the worst and expecting more of it, was in the songs. A Review of Bob Dylan at the Beacon Theater 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

For Hughes, his magic is an appreciation for the lyrics and rhythms of jazz and blues. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Bowers and Dahi’s journey is fascinating: they explore blues in Mississippi, country music in Tennessee and Native drum circles in Oklahoma, accumulating a melting-pot portrait of American music. ‘Anthem’ Review: Flying High 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

That billowing moist veil of greys and blues is a luxury they share with the poorest in England.• Royal treasures and Raspberry Pi – the week in art 2013-03-01T12:52:49Z

The genuine and effectual blues singer, as Murray explained, not only identifies the problem through her song, but with her delivery of the song, offers a means to overcome the problem. The inspiring poetics of Tedeschi Trucks Band 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

He was taught to play blues guitar when he was eight by his father, a steel worker who played at weekends. Little Axe: from blues to hip-hop and back 2010-07-15T22:12:00Z

Another example of "1-8-7's" lack of identity and desire for broad appeal: The first five minutes works in a pair of Motown soul classics, then it's all over the musical map -- rock, rap, blues, other. Promising "Detroit 1-8-7" uncertain of tone 2010-09-21T03:00:00Z

But the score's bursts of dance music, and fine trumpeter Ron Miles's blues phrasing, convey the hope that brought about America's unique achievements, too. Bill Frisell/The Great Flood – review 2012-11-14T18:18:20Z

Performers, black and white, embraced his style as the distinctions between blues, rock and soul gradually blurred. B.B. King, Mississippi master of the blues, dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

On Mega Millions, Crow speaks over horn-filled hold music, mostly cheerful, though with one or two bleats of blues in the anguish of alto sax. Watching Lottery Drawings in an Age of Plutocracy 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Last year, he released his debut album, “Kingfish,” which is both deeply reverent of tradition and yet not stodgy in any way; it’s nominated for best traditional blues album. 5 Grammy Artists You Need to Hear 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

In “Arrival,” squid-like aliens visit an Earth suffused in moody blues and grays—you wonder if they looked at a brochure before booking the trip. Oscar Spotlight: Best Director and Best Picture 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Revelers dressed in khakis and pinstriped suits could buy bonded whisky and bootleg corn whisky, and men and women danced to jump blues and mingled on the ballroom floor. Club Ebony, a Historic Blues Venue Tied to B.B. King, Rises Again 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

It was followed by another waltz, “And I Will Follow,” sung to the similar accompaniment by Ms. Bean, a singer with a blues side. Music Review: Jason Robert Brown at 54 Below 2012-09-13T21:56:24Z

The title song, written by Mr. Morrison, is a minor-key blues with a rumba undercurrent, and he sings it with improvisatory aplomb. The Playlist: Sharon Van Etten Comes Back Strong, and 11 More New Songs 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

The Spirit Lives unveils almost every blues style in about four time changes. Roy Harper: 'I'm not very communicative' 2013-07-17T16:49:47Z

“Whatever he did, whether it was smooth or it was blues, there was a commitment,” he said of Mr. Golub, a crisp and stylistically fluid guitarist who died on Jan. 1 at 59. A Concert Tribute for the Guitarist Jeff Golub 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Yarrow said this performance, which features folk and blues artists such as Dar Williams and Guy Davis, is intentionally not a fundraiser. Music world helps Newtown heal following massacre 2013-02-07T16:31:10Z

“I got on great with him – he liked Willie Dixon and all those great blues singers,” says Bailey, gray-haired and relaxed, in town for the gallery opening Dec. 13. The Rolling Stones, David Bailey and Taschen's big, pricey book 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Later still, blues blended with purples and greens. On an Arizona Road Trip, Miles of Family Firsts 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

The CBE will feature fewer artifacts in favor of an immersive experience intended to drop visitors into different time periods and locations where the blues developed, including Maxwell Street and South Side clubs. Two planned museums brighten the future of the blues 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

The background is stained a deep red violet, overpainted with a sunset palette of dark blues, greens, purples and maroons. Two very different painters show that abstractionism isn’t dead yet 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

It's possible the win over White might have been especially gratifying for the Keys, since their revved-up take on blues rock have routinely and unfavourably been compared to White's. Black Keys take three rock awards at the Grammys 2013-02-11T06:16:06Z

Their frequent caramels and khakis flirt with tastelessness while bonding with adjacent blues, reds, greens and yellows, usually not very pure. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

A particularly modern artisan, he recognises the need to diversify, so while blues remains his core skill, he's also fluent in neo-soul, R&B and psychedelia, all of it garnished by attractively leathery vocals. Gary Clark Jr: Blak and Blu – review 2013-02-21T21:29:01Z

Align those three with one of rock's strongest, most emotionally expressive blues and soul-schooled voices in Paul Rodgers, and you had four musicians who together just flat-out worked. Andy Fraser: A bassist whose rumbling sound allowed Free to soar 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

He enhanced salt’s alchemy further by coating pieces with a range of metal oxides before firing them, which let him achieve blues, greens and ochers. Don Reitz, Who Made Dirt and Salt Into Art, Dies at 84 2014-03-30T00:25:15Z

With “Blue Light,” Wilson redefined the parameters for jazz vocalists, reaching beyond the Great American Songbook of yore to rock, blues and country roots, even tossing in pedal steel guitar. Week Ahead: Maritime Festival, Cinco de Mayo, Cassandra Wilson 2014-04-30T21:25:24Z

This playlist is a collection of her favourite songs of the moment, spanning folk, pop, rock and blues. Now listening: reader playlist 2012-06-07T09:01:00Z

“Well, the objective of the blues musician is to get rid of the blues,” Mr. Murray answers, “and of course you stomp the blues not with utmost violence but with elegance.” The Blues? Overcoming Hard Times Through Swinging Elegance 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

I sifted through what seemed like hundreds of new thrillers and mysteries meant to divert our attention from the news and the blues of this early winter season. Review | Five new thrillers offer guilt-free distraction 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

It felt like raw, electric, rockin' blues with excellent guitar playing. Old people party: Jon Spencer and Quasi at the Crocodile 2012-11-14T18:40:24Z

No matter what kind of music you liked — blues, R&B, electronica, psychedelia, folk — he brushed up against it, The power of Prince: A master of opposites, he bridged divides between genre, race, gender and style 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Beane — and her family — agreed, and Ferry got to work, striving to accurately reproduce the lavenders, pinks and blues, the dazzling cream lace, the shades of purple and maroon in her hats. Portraits of the hat lady: An artist captures a ‘living legend’ of D.C. on canvas 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

But it’s also black in that, like Mr. Wolfe’s musical, it’s got a touch of the blues. Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

“Early Roman Kings,” a Chicago-style blues shuffle with thrusts of slide guitar, hurled brutal gangster boasts.” Review: Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, Electric, Not Just Nostalgic, at Desert Trip 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

His leads careen and color outside of the lines, delighting in hazy blues. Pitchfork Day 3: Vampire Weekend, Ty Segall, Kendrick Lamar (and Lady Gaga?) 2012-07-16T05:11:00Z

One of the better of Mississippi Records’ curated compilations of early, scratchy, ghostly American gospel and pre-war blues music, “Last Kind Words” is named for Geeshie Wiley’s rare Paramount records side. Unsung Heroes: Tips on reissues by Lewis, Gun Club, Pia Zadora, more 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Then she paints them in comic-book yellows, greens, or blues, with contrasting underpants. A Striking Balance of New and Rediscovered at the Independent Fair 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Eleven years on from the official breakup of Catatonia, and five after her unexpected I'm a Celebrity appearance, Matthews certainly knows a lot more about the blues. Cerys Matthews – review 2012-12-20T18:17:00Z

Depending on the song and the arrangement, the music brought in subtle blues and inflections. Music Review: Keren Ann in American Songbook Program at the Allen Room 2012-02-02T23:15:08Z

The selections are particularly heavy in recognizing old blues songs that, though minimized as “race records” when originally released in 78-rpm versions, went on to influence later generations of popular musicians. ArtsBeat Blog: 25 Recordings Chosen for Grammy Hall of Fame 2011-11-21T18:27:49Z

To help with the bills, she worked as a waitress in a blues bar where she was frequently the only white person. Rachel Kushner, Author of ‘The Flamethrowers’ 2013-05-06T20:07:27Z

Instead, her music explored the blues and folk roots of Americana. Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra Finds Herself in a Concept Album 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Colors — an array of desaturated pinks, sky blues, forest greens and dirt browns — entered the images. Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Mesmeric Alternate Universes 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

There’s a lot of piety about the pure virtues of the blues, soul and early rock. Review: ‘Vinyl’ Resurrects the ’70s Music Industry, Amid Proto-Punk Squalor 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

A virtuosic, high-energy blues guitarist, Mr. Winter was perhaps as well known for his appearance as he was for his playing. Johnny Winter, Virtuosic Blues Guitarist, Dies at 70 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

But like a true jazz vocalist, he’s never strayed too far from the blues. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Vocals 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

“Within the Golden Hour,” to music by Ezio Bosso and Vivaldi, has three main couples and an ensemble of eight dressed in vivid blues, greens and golds. Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Finishes Its London Season 2012-09-25T22:04:19Z

They soon met people in the blues scene, including vocalist Joan Osborne and guitarist Johnny Allen. John Popper on 30 years of Blues Traveler and heading out solo 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Meekyoung Shin's painstaking replicas of antique Chinese vases feature hand-painted warriors and ornately scaled dragons that curl across brilliantly coloured bowls in blues, yellows and reds. Artist of the week 131: Meekyoung Shin 2011-03-25T12:48:11Z

Geddy Lee, frontman for Rush, for whom the Hip once opened, praised them in an email for their “blues based, sinewy, guitar rock combined with Gord’s original poetic style of lyrics.” Gord Downie, Frontman for the Tragically Hip, in His Final Act 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

“The blues are dealing with reality,” he told the Chicago Tribune in 1989. Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

The colors tend to be vibrant pinks and purples, as well as blues that just sizzle. Perspective | The magical, mystical waterlily: A guide to varieties both hardy and tropical 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

Somewhere in there you hear a Latin influence as well as the blues. Music Match: If You Like Ravi Shankar, Listen to Harry Manx 2012-12-18T20:47:07Z

On “Tribal” he digs hard into the New Orleans rhythm and blues on which he cut his teeth. Critics' Choice: CDs From Los Lobos, Seu Jorge and Almaz, and Dr. John 2010-08-01T22:33:00Z

With Miller's help, he put together a crack team of Nashville musicians and paid homage to early rock `n' roll, blues and folk music. Miller takes artist of year at Americana Awards 2011-10-14T02:22:23Z

Peggy: I was struck by the severe and stark beauty of the landscape, all blues, whites and browns. A trip to Antarctica, to escape D.C. winter (oh, and for other reasons) 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

But at the post-show party, at a blues club near Times Square, politics proved an unexpectedly pleasant distraction. Don’t Despair, Protest: Playwright Lucy Kirkwood Sees No Other Choice 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

His blues and greens were specific, as if made with an eyedropper. Fashion Review: Young Designers Lead the Way at London Fashion Shows - Fashion Review 2011-09-21T17:58:26Z

Imagine the blues, but a little bluer and not as funny. Tayari Jones: By the Book 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

He uses unorthodox tunings and incorporates a global mix of flamenco and blues into his interpretation of dansa, a traditional form of Malian music from his hometown, Kayes. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

The next day in the Bristol Evening Post, there we were and the caption underneath said, Janis Joplin and Grace Slick enjoying themselves at the pop, folk and blues festival. The first Glastonbury: 'Hell's Angels stole the ox-roast!' – a classic feature 2013-06-12T10:35:57Z

Air Force dress blues, in a series of portraits that would later prove to be all the more powerful as the father of the bride would not live to see his daughter’s wedding day. Bride-to-be nixes engagement shoot, takes photos with terminally ill father instead 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Winter followed in the footsteps of Chicago blues masters like Muddy Waters. Maine event to become tribute to Johnny Winter 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Born and raised in Clarksdale, Miss., Kingfish took to the blues early, and became something of a teen guitar prodigy. 5 Grammy Artists You Need to Hear 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

After the murder of Martin Luther King in 1968 and the riots that led to a decade of inner-city blues, black businesses daubed Soul Power on their shutters to save their shops. When the going gets tough, Aloe Blacc gets going 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

“It was like taking a vitamin blended into a smoothie,” she said unabashedly, explaining that the practice is a common folk remedy against postpartum blues. An Interview With January Jones of ‘Mad Men’ 2013-05-17T22:09:45Z

When Mr. Charters’s first book, “The Country Blues,” was published at the tail end of the 1950s, the rural Southern blues of the pre-World War II period was a largely ignored genre. Samuel Charters, Foundational Scholar of the Blues, Dies at 85 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

But if the winter plaids were all grays, navies and burgundies, summer plaids, particularly this season, are an explosion of pinks, blues and yellows. 5 Fresh Prints to Wear Now 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

He studied ethnomusicology at Washington University in St. Louis, concentrating on Delta blues and traveling through the South learning blues and ragtime. Bob Brozman, Guitarist, Is Dead at 59 2013-05-02T00:36:58Z

The instruments are hand-played, the vocals are scratchy growls, and the songs revisit Mr. Richards’s favorite idioms — blues, country, reggae, Stonesy rock — for some scrappy storytelling. The album was recorded on analog tape. Keith Richards on ‘Crosseyed Heart’: It’s Solo Rock ’n’ Roll, but He Likes It 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

They reunited in later decades to tour with the label’s former stars and perform at blues festivals. Teenie Hodges, genre-defining Memphis player, dies

In Clarksdale, epicenter of the blues, this year's Juke Joint Festival has everything from legendary blues singers like Grammy-winner David "Honeyboy" Edwards, all the way to racing pigs and monkeys riding on dogs. Juke Joint Festival spotlights Miss. blues history 2010-04-14T18:34:00Z

He was really a fan of rhythm and blues. Why the Velvet Underground could only have come from New York 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

He told me he’d been suffering a bad case of the blues. Andrew reveals his true colours to Stella Grey 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

It’s a cosmopolitan alternative to Beale Street, the legendary strip in Downtown Memphis jammed with blues and R & B clubs. 2010-01-29T05:08:00Z

We wanted to show all the genres of rock’n’roll: the blues people, the San Francisco groups, the groups from England. 'It felt like a wonderful dream' – DA Pennebaker on making Monterey Pop 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

All black American music—jazz, blues, soul, R. & B., funk, house, dub, extending on into rhythmic black eternity—that I hear in Europe. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

“Pynchon talks about ‘those little kid blues’ that haunt Doc. ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

And, listening to a posthumous release of Hendrix playing the blues, I started, for a while, to hear doubly – to hear the Indian raga in the blues scale, and vice versa. Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z

It’s still impossible not to cheer when the indomitable character Sofia speaks for herself and for her meek friend, Celie, the horribly abused center of the story, by growling the fierce blues number “Hell No!” Review | This ‘Color Purple’ may have won a Tony, but it’s cut to the bone 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

The public gushed over the terminal itself, with its pale blues and friendly yellows, its ceiling of domes, the glass facade spanning 1,600 feet and, most importantly, its space and modernity. Goodbye to Gate 35X, cursed portal to the rest of America 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

He has been touring with a blues band - he plays guitar - with planned stops in Japan, China and New York. Family Attorney: Jackson children just normal kids 2010-06-21T08:31:00Z

It has long been responsible for the metallic twang that runs across American country, blues, and rock'n'roll. Sixty years of the Fender Telecaster 2010-07-04T19:59:00Z

The Bad Seeds hit their peak during the killing spree in "Stagger Lee," Cave's extrapolation of a classic blues narrative about the real-life St. Louis murder of a man named Billy. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds offer fury, comfort, brimstone at Ace Hotel 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

Throughout albums like Innervisions or Songs in the Key of Life you'll find plenty of what you might call 'jazz chords' – flattened 9ths and secondary dominants and extended blues progressions and all that business. Stevie Wonder: jammin' with the jazz set 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z

Milioti's impressive, wide-eyed charisma and the hangdog blues Romano employs to paint his portrait of Hazel's father Herbert collaborate beautifully on this point. "Made For Love" and the twist ending that asks what we'll compromise for technology 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

In Jones’ early years working the Northwest blues circuit, eventually conquering Seattle rock clubs, he was unaware so many others who looked like him were part of that tradition, too. How Seattle’s storied rock scene is shattering the genre’s white male image 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Shabby chic surface treatments, with simulated patina and distress marks, are appearing on woodwork newly subsumed by pastel pigments, and blues and oranges in blazing sheens are being striped on wood side by side. Ornament or Crime? With Painted Woodwork, There Is No Middle Ground 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Here are some ways to work blues back into your summer wardrobe. Ways to Work Denim Back Into Your Summer Wardrobe 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

It will be an eclectic offering, with “blues, rock ‘n’ roll, heavy rock, light rock, all different styles,” Ms. Ono said. Yoko Ono, Almost 80, Has a Renaissance 2012-11-28T22:01:06Z

Whether it’s the minimalistic carnage of the Stripes, the lush instrumentation of The Raconteurs, or the mucky distortion of The Dead Weather, it all goes back to Mississippi Delta blues. Jack White's Blunderbuss: The Rock Raconteur Goes It Alone 2012-04-24T10:45:54Z

However complex the charts or the improvisation, their music flows as easily as a 12-bar blues. James Carter Organ Trio ? review 2011-07-24T16:31:00Z

With a mix of the old and the new, it’s surprising to discover that not only are the blues far from dead; in some places, the blues are quietly thriving. In Baton Rouge, They’re Still Singing the Blues 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Her voice bites into every one, from Neil Young’s “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” to Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy,” drawing lessons informed by her unerring sense of drama and by the scarred resilience of the blues. Jon Pareles’s Top 10 Albums of 2012 2012-12-12T13:55:53Z

The holiday pop-up that started it all just two years ago is housed in the city’s most legendary blues bar. In Las Vegas, the desert transforms into a winter wonderland 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

And they really surprised me: a cool blues vibe going on, they sounded great, man. Jake Bugg: stars of 2012 2012-11-24T14:20:01Z

It was there, according to Ken Burns’ authoritative Jazz documentary, that Coleman began to hone his style, which mixed country blues with technical jazz theory. Jazz Saxophonist Ornette Coleman Dies At 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

An oasis of green — and bright pinks, yellows and blues — set against the noisy backdrop of Bushwick, “Quince” felt like a backyard party. Outdoors in Bushwick, Gardens of Theatrical Discovery 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

They point — as clearly as any flashing neon sign outside a roadhouse blues bar — to a leadership problem. Perspective | All the problems at NBC News aren’t just coincidence. They’re symptoms. 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Why take on the blues, which is a genre that has its roots in Southern U.S. culture? A Minute With: Hugh Laurie sings the blues after 'House' 2013-08-14T12:10:18Z

Every blues player that ever lived, I guess — the cadences and the way that people express themselves in an intuitive way. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Godfather of Conspiracy Thinking 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

ON a recent Sunday night at Smalls, the Greenwich Village basement club, Johnny O’Neal sat at the piano drawing lush clumps of harmony from the keys as he shouted a blues standard. After Vanishing, Johnny O’Neal Has a New York Following Again 2014-05-01T23:30:47Z

He does not, and cannot—I want to believe—rate the blues below Bach. Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Most of the great entertainers in Soundies played jazz, but there are films with the blues, cowboy tunes, Hawaiian melodies, polka music, rumbas, the works. The Swinging, Jamming Musical Charms of 1940s Soundies 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Ingram, who won five times last year, took home the contemporary blues male artist and guitar instrumentalist awards. Copeland, Ingram among winners of Blues Music Awards 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

Timony says she was inspired by the directness of vintage recordings from Stax Records, wanting to blend the bluntness of old rhythm and blues with the aggressive nature of after-school basement shredding. Teen angst still afflicts Mary Timony in adulthood 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

It’s true that the days of Baton Rouge as a blues center are gone. In Baton Rouge, They’re Still Singing the Blues 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Ibrahim showed himself every bit as capable as Moctar of propelling desert blues into the ionosphere. Review | Mdou Moctar lets his fingers do the talking during Black Cat show 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to get the blues out of your sound. Wynton Marsalis Finds Solace in the Optimism of the Blues 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

And they were mostly in minor keys, full of blues and ghosts — not just the sad, driven men and women in the lyrics but the hard-livers who wrote them or taught them to him, too. Music Review: Casually Tough, Steeled by Ghosts 2010-12-16T23:04:03Z

Looking around him today, Mayall reckons blues is alive and well. At 80, blues legend John Mayall sings about a world gone crazy 2014-05-07T15:22:23Z

Filmed on location in juke joints throughout the South, it stars Morgan Simpson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Seattle's own Tom Skerritt and a host of blues musicians. Today's SIFF highlight: May 20, 2011 2011-05-20T01:22:50Z

The exhibition will start from the blues and Tin Pan Alley eras and continue to the present day. A Trove of Rarities in 'Jazz Singers' Exhibition at Library of Congress 1457-03-19T05:00:00Z

But there’s almost nothing complex about this album — there are blues, soul, maybe a hint of Bakersfield country on a cover of J. J. Cale’s “Call Me the Breeze,” but not much more. Critic’s Notebook: John Mayer’s New Album Is ‘Paradise Valley’ 2013-08-20T22:04:17Z

In Britain, there was always this joke that you went to art school to learn to play blues guitar. David Bowie on His Favorite Artists 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

No one was injured and — also miraculously — the first act at the Mural, a gritty blues band from Texas led by Ty Curtis, took the stage on time. Bumbershoot Day Two topped by Tony Bennett 2012-09-03T02:04:03Z

The mountain naturally divides itself into three sections, with a corridor of blues in the center, some nice gladed bumps to the east, and long, steep black and double-black runs to the west. At a Club Med Ski Resort, Learning to Love the Apéro 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

On Friday, the great factor was the extraordinary exuberance of the live singers in the spirituals, song sermons, gospel songs and holy blues that accompany this work. At Alvin Ailey, Antonio Douthit-Boyd in ‘Ostrich’ 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

And the concert lineups, once the lettering is deciphered, reveal one of Graham’s personal agendas: mixing styles, slipping jazz and blues onto the bills alongside rock headliners. In Trippy Times, Bill Graham Took Care of Reality 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Baldwin writes, “In all jazz, and especially in the blues, there is something tart and ironic, authoritative and double-edged.” Barry Jenkins on “The Fire Next Time” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

“It’s a kind of gritty, greasy version of bolero,” he said, and it seems more emotional, sadder, like the blues. The Bolero Is Timeless. Miguel Zenón Is Giving It a Jazzy Tinge. 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

Genuine squalls activate the flurries of black ink and paint, and actual melting glaciers inspire the watery blues. Review | In the galleries: These are not your usual travel pictures 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Performing a mix of blues, ballads, hymns and breakdowns, the Stanley Brothers popularized a number of songs that would become bluegrass standards, among them “Mountain Dew,” “Little Maggie” and “Angel Band.” Ralph Stanley, Whose Mountain Music Gave Rise to Bluegrass, Dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Jason had been playing piano himself since age 6, mainly the classical repertoire and, around this time, a little bit of boogie-woogie, influenced by an uncle who was a blues pianist. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

The vibrant blues of the muscari, the deep plum-colored irises, the scarlet azalea blossoms — all are robbed of much of their vitality by the banks of overhead lights. Perspective | The Philadelphia Flower Show is moving outdoors because of covid. That may not be a bad thing. 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

His Violin Concerto also turns to Baroque forms for its two outer movements, while the middle — which he composed first — alludes to blues and the French modernist Olivier Messiaen. Seattle Symphony unveils a new, custom concerto 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

“Locomotive” is a Southern rock howler, and “Holy Water” has a cutting blues energy. Luke Combs and Miranda Lambert, Both Bound by Country’s Gendered Rule Book 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

An old blues song pulsed: Jelly roll, jelly roll, sittin’ on a fence If you doan get some you ain’t got no sense  Just wild bout my jelly My sweet jelly roll. J: The sexiest letter 2013-04-07T18:59:00Z

Its repertoire included the group’s new songs, an a cappella medieval dirge, a girl-group remake, Charles Mingus pieces, blues tunes and traditional ballads. John Renbourn, Eclectic Guitarist Who Founded the Pentangle, Dies at 70 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

In fact, power is a common feature of many different vocal traditions: the blues, Bulgarian folk singing, Sufi chanting, Russian choral singing. Can opera singers sing pop ? and vice versa? 2011-07-28T22:00:03Z

On a recent night in Williamsburg, an ecstatic crowd jammed the dance floor of the club Brooklyn Bowl to see one of the world’s greatest living blues guitarists. How Bombino Became the Sultan of Shred 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

There is a difference between electric blues and rock & roll, which is why Stevie Ray Vaughan's induction is misguided. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Seven complaints about its 2015 selections 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

With the blues, green and oranges of “Blue Michigan” from 1961, we see Mitchell reach maturity, beginning a 30-year phase that lasted until her death — and during which she only got better. At 7 Art Galleries, the Ecstatic Flow of Paint and the Stories It Can Tell 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

But she calls attention to efforts to restore the reefs, embraces the protective quality of mangroves and, in one huge painting, shows an idyllic, pre-plastic sea of lyric teal and royal blues and silver. Beneath the Waves, a Warning 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

The band announced on Thursday it will release its first studio album in over a decade in December -- covers of the American blues greats who got them into music in the first place. Rolling Stones to release new album in December 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Each of these rhyming verse poems is infused, as the author’s note indicates, with a musical style central to Hendrix’s repertoire — from blues and early R&B to the psychedelic rock he would revolutionize. Sonic Sensations: Picture Books About Nina Simone and Jimi Hendrix 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

The music is also an amalgam, taking in the influence of Jewish cantillation, traditional choral styles, gospel, mariachi, pop, blues and 12-tone music. A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

Along with his brilliant guitarist brother Duane, killed in a motorbike accident almost 40 years ago, he shook up the US music scene by mixing blues, country and soul with the new southern rock style. Gregg Allman ? review 2011-07-05T18:29:01Z

They’ve restored the colors — mauves and browns, along with dusty pinks, blues, purples and greens — and brought back some capelets, as well as scalloped edges on skirts. This Year’s ‘Nutcracker’ Kids: Taller, Older and Savoring It All 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Then I saw Tav Falco, and it was crazy -- blues, rockabilly from this guy who was not a trained singer. Oblivians return, chaos follows 2013-07-03T14:57:00Z

A retail manager by day, Pritchard must be equal parts musicologist, cultural historian, archivist and Internet detective for the blues genealogy project. Grave marker project helps bury the blues 2013-12-30T14:37:27Z

It started even before us, in the mid-60s, when so many of our blues players and rhythm-and-blues bands came out of art school. David Bowie on His Favorite Artists 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

But music stayed with him: One of his boyhood friends was Otis Redding, and Penniman heard R&B, blues and country while working at a concession stand at the Macon City Auditorium. Little Richard, founding father of rock who broke musical barriers, dead at 87 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

Woodinville’s Brian Carter Cellars puts together a tempting snack and wine pairing menu served at little tables in a cheery tasting room decorated in blues and yellows. With new options for food, wine and walks on the Columbia, the Vancouver waterfront is buzzing 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2015-16 season, with the theme “Jazz and American Song,” will feature a sustained emphasis on vocal music in the blues, jazz and pop traditions. Accent on Singing in Coming Jazz at Lincoln Center Season 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

That is not the half of it, although space constraints mean we must gloss over his stint as an energy drink inventor and blues guitarist. George Foreman fighting Steven Seagal in Vegas? It’s the least we deserve 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

I like to get younger people into the blues. Joe Louis Walker, the blues and beyond 2012-06-06T21:49:00Z

But his blues phrasing often veers toward abstraction, his notes smearing and disappearing without an alibi — like a nose on a canvas shrewdly misplaced. Demi Lovato’s Anguished ‘Anyone,’ and 11 More New Songs 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

“Jordan puts love and delight in her poems, not just vengeance and justice. There is so much giddy humor in her exclamation points: ‘The blues is the blues!’” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

In 1961 Mr. Albee attacked racism in “The Death of Bessie Smith,” based on the refusal of a white-run Southern hospital to treat the critically injured blues singer. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Janelle Monáe, who had one of the most critically acclaimed albums of last year, and blues legend BB King, will also be performing. Glastonbury festival 2011: Mumford & Sons make leap to Other stage 2011-03-02T18:30:52Z

He can play in a traditional style on blues and ballads, but when he lets loose with funky eccentricity, he enhances the band’s identity as something that is brilliant in its resistance to identification. The spontaneous magic of Gov't Mule in concert: "We feel more comfortable on stage than anywhere" 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Leave it to Dolly Parton to know just how to brighten up pandemic blues with a full dose of cheery holiday nostalgia. Get in the holiday mood with Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

Her signature song was "Stormy Weather" but her vocal range extended from blues and jazz and to such Rodgers and Hart classics as "The Lady Is a Tramp" and "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered." Lena Horne's NYC apartment artifacts to be sold 2011-02-23T16:25:09Z

The colors were all vivid, from the golden sweep of “Jupiter” to the lurid nighttime blues of “Neptune.” Review: Planets, Tubas and Febrile Strings With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

There's this huge treasure trove of rhythms and sounds that are within rhythm and blues from the 1950s that — you can see it everywhere you play it,'' he said. Music Match: If You Like Bill Haley and His Comets, Try JD McPherson 2013-08-13T13:00:01Z

This was in contrast to Cyril Davies, the tradition-minded harmonica player 10 years their senior, whom London blues aficionados regarded as the real deal. Music: Stones, Chieftains, Beach Boys and El Gran Combo Turn 50 2012-02-03T21:32:08Z

In 1921 or 1922 and for the next ten or fifteen years, take a look at all the songs that aren’t blues that are called ‘blues’ and ask yourself, ‘Why is that?’ A Long-Ago Interview with Dave Van Ronk About the Blues 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

He described the weaving of the guitarists, mixed with Jagger's blues harmonica, as a wonder. Rolling Stones storm London; New York next 2012-11-26T17:16:06Z

His 2006 album, “Sound Grammar,” which drew on sources as diverse as Igor Stravinsky and the blues, received the Pulitzer Prize for music composition in 2007. Ornette Coleman, innovative force in jazz and modern music, dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Performers in the lineup include the American hip-hop group De La Soul; the Malian blues band Songhoy Blues; and the jazz and afropop singer Angélique Kidjo, who will perform with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. What's on This Week Around the World 1464-09-25T05:00:00Z

Humorist, recording artist and stage star Will Rogers, blues great Janis Joplin and soprano Leontyne Price were included. "The Twist," "Saturday Night Fever" deemed recording treasures 2013-03-21T19:09:33Z

The two-time Grammy winner ranges over the music of the African Diaspora, from delta and Piedmont blues to reggae and calypso. Blues man Taj Mahal in Seattle for annual Thanksgiving gig 2012-11-15T22:31:05Z

I’m utterly captivated by the cobbled streets and homes painted in every shade of the pastel spectrum: Light lavender, pale yellow and peach pink are mixed in with darker greens, bold purples and vibrant blues. Cape Town inspires art in all forms 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Now, at 71, he just looks like an old blues dude having a blast playing guitar. Rolling Stones open 2015 tour with sold-out gig at San Diego's Petco Park 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

In the 1980s he turned to a slashing, expressionist style to paint faces of characters like Sinbad and Pocahontas in acidic blues and greens. Art in Review: Victor Pesce: ‘Selections: 1978-2010’ 2013-07-04T23:36:18Z

WED Classic soul and blues with Little Sara and the Night Owls, 6:30 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

IF you are still bummed by the endless 2011 winter and sunless spring, here’s a way to put your blues away: Get out into a public garden. Public Gardens Turn on the Charm 2011-06-17T01:45:45Z

Sternberg, who studied at the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music at the New School, writes smart, tightly woven songs indebted to the blues tradition as well as to singer-songwriters like Elliott Smith. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

She sang both with ferocity and dignity, with a voice that moved easily between rock power, soul rasp and blues vibrancy. ArtsBeat: American Idol: How To Shape A Star 2011-01-28T07:33:18Z

He and his adept band moved easily — often in the same song — between jazz, blues, world, rock and country, changing up tempos, rhythms, keys and time signatures. Sting strips down his sound, melts crowd 2011-12-06T19:36:03Z

With Scotland’s low skies and the slate interior of the container, the piece intensifies the ultraviolet blues in the light. T Magazine: Seeing the Light 2013-05-09T18:01:22Z

Nyeu's silkscreen art is infused with blues of various shades — perfect for representing the watery environment where Squid and Octopus live. 'Traction Man' and other beachy keen new books for kids 2012-07-20T01:19:36Z

The wunderkind somehow poured a symphonic melody into the 12-bar blues structure and "solved" the challenge of the run-on lyrics in the middle of the verse. Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z

The band — Dylan’s long-evolving touring band — patiently circles through slow, stealthy vamps or, in more upbeat moments, lopes through 12-bar blues shuffles. Bob Dylan Still Bristles on ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Hummel himself discovered the blues growing up as a rock guitarist in Monterey Park, just east of downtown Los Angeles. Mark Hummel takes a flyer with Bluebird Records | Concert preview 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Technically it’s still November, but a set’s worth of Christmas music from the inimitable Blind Boys of Alabama is about as festive as it gets — especially for blues and gospel fans. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Unfolding as a collection of scenic episodes, "Daniela" started as lullaby, blossomed into a blues and finally erupted in a sprawling, virtuosic keyboard statement. The provocative pianism of Danilo Perez 2011-04-22T14:03:00Z

I was surprised by the blues but she seems to really be into it. Cyndi Lauper singing the blues at NO's Jazz Fest 2011-05-06T13:01:05Z

Then came his translation of blues for a white audience that speaks to the enduring wound of racism – Presley garnered huge riches from the crossover yet made no effort to repay the figurative debt. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

In my early days I did the harsh blues kind of thing, but I really wanted to do the softer stuff. Bobby Bland: 'Blues and soul are one and the same' – a classic interview 2013-06-25T12:24:00Z

"I knew it was OK because there was no way ZZ Top would lose their blues." ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z

This year’s ceremony, hosted by Stephen Colbert, celebrates Al Pacino, James Taylor, members of the Eagles, the gospel and blues singer Mavis Staples and Martha Argerich, one of the greatest living concert pianists. What’s on TV Tuesday: Eero Saarinen and the Kennedy Center Honors 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

And in America, the blues sparked an unprecedented kind of wildfire. The thrill is gone. So is B.B. King. Now what happens to blues music? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The soulful trumpet of the magic flute is not magic sweet song but the blues. A 'Flute' from Africa renews Mozart's musical magic 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

But because Mr. Clapton has been traveling this road so long, those borrowed blues also qualify as beloved fixtures of his catalog. Review: Eric Clapton, at Madison Square Garden, Travels a Familiar Road 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Accented in gray, brown, deep reds and blues, the set evokes his predecessor’s, albeit with some subtle tweaks — which seems to be Noah’s approach to the show itself. Trevor Noah’s learning curve: How “The Daily Show” host plans to turn his “clean slate” into success 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

As some songs on “Old Ideas” clearly suggest, he has been listening extensively to the blues: music that grapples, tersely and eloquently, with “loss and death,” he said. Arts & Leisure: Leonard Cohen Reckons With God in ?Old Ideas? 2012-01-27T16:00:00Z

His many illnesses and heavy blues were not all invented, however, and he spent some time in the mid-1850s in a “specialized institution,” with what sounds like a nervous breakdown. Review: Starchitect of the Second Empire 2010-11-18T08:00:00Z

It’s a sentiment Kreutzmann shares, noting that Mayer also brings with him a feel for the blues that was crucial to the band’s early material. The Grateful Dead Is Resurrected Once More, This Time With John Mayer 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

No cure for the summertime blues, its last line reads, “Everybody is alone.” A Visit to “Visitors” on Governors Island 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

But the colors were magical — the shadings of red and black together, sienna and brown, gorgeous blues, pinks and greens. On the Runway: And Now Couture 2011-01-24T23:47:55Z

He saw the blues, and jazz, as an uplifting response to misery. Albert Murray, Essayist Who Challenged the Conventional, Dies at 97 2013-08-19T16:57:56Z

Ford, Munger, bassist Tyler Tornfelt and drummer Ford Tennis blend blues and rockabilly with crazy abandon on just under a dozen tracks. Sallie Ford: Love has done her wrong, but she’s back for more 2013-02-16T23:46:55Z

A small corner is reserved for frequent live music, leaning toward acoustic folk/rock and blues. In a rapidly growing state, La Conner’s pace of change is just right 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

You can do country, you can do folk, you can do bluegrass or a little blues. From City Folk, Toe-Tapping Country Sounds 2011-02-24T21:28:59Z

So when the crowd spoke up, it did so more or less by invitation, as when she performed Bessie Smith’s dirty blues “You’ve Got to Give Me Some,” with double meanings about butchers and milkmen. Music Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant and Kenny Garrett at Jazz Festival 2013-08-25T21:22:08Z

Begun in his teens, and partly-performed only once in his lifetime, it took in Jelly Roll Morton, Broadway standards, gospel, blues, and references to Schoenberg, Bartok and Stravinsky. Take Five 2012: John Fordham's year in jazz 2012-12-18T14:09:36Z

I arrived in Amal by train on Thursday afternoon, just as the blues festival kicked off. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Southern Sweden, Singing the Blues and Medieval Jousting 2012-07-17T19:12:31Z

In her piano playing, the blues, the black church, classical music and free improvising coexist. Amina Claudine Myers, a Singer Who Still Needs No Words 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Jimmy Garrison’s bass sits high up in the mix, as if to emphasize the earth and salt of the world — as much as its liquid blues. The Playlist: Unreleased John Coltrane, and 9 More New Songs 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

It’s still Portuguese music, not rock or blues. Music: Carving Out a Bold Destiny for Fado 2011-03-25T19:38:43Z

He helps her and us understand something about how the blues work, and the actors connect. | 'Langston in Harlem': Langston Hughes Poems Become Songs at Urban Stages 2010-04-20T21:21:00Z

And he argued for the importance of establishing an American concert canon, spanning African-American work songs, spirituals, the blues and Broadway tunes. Who Was Don Shirley? ‘Green Book’ Tries to Solve the Mystery 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

He played a powerful, warped, original blues called “Lay My Head Down.” Music Review | Harvey Milk: At Le Poisson Rouge, Playing Like Its 1993 2010-03-09T23:20:00Z

As some songs on "Old Ideas" clearly suggest, he has been listening extensively to the blues: music that grapples, tersely and eloquently, with "loss and death," he said. Leonard Cohen's new album, 'Old Ideas' wrestles with death 2012-01-30T22:33:07Z

It all sounds like terrific, toe-tapping fun, drawing on the oral tradition of the murder ballad as well as slasher movies and the blues. This week's new theatre 2013-03-23T06:00:18Z

The blues and the purples are cooler colors. ArtsBeat Blog: Getting Noticed at the Fringe: 'Fourteen Flights' 2011-08-17T12:00:30Z

But if we think of the blues more broadly — as a confessional purge, as a sonic act of unburdening — we can hear it all around us. The thrill is gone. So is B.B. King. Now what happens to blues music? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

You get sick of people saying, "Oh, the blues." Poet Nikki Giovanni shares her wisdom about Biden, cowardly racism, and why love is a pineapple 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

Their conflagration is balanced on the right by a stack of two blues and a black. Review: Stanley Whitney’s Paintings Reinvent the Grid 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

For years he collaborated with the British blues scholar Paul Oliver on an encyclopedic work, “The Texas Blues,” which was abandoned when the two had a falling-out. Mack McCormick, Student of Texas Blues, Dies at 85 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

He was in a country blues band, BarnRatt, ran the island’s recording studio, and acted in productions of the island’s Vinalhaven Players. The Artist’s Caretaker: Once He Controlled Everything. No More. 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Gillis, who loves hip-hop the way the Stones loved the blues, highlights its raunch. The 373-Hit Wonder 2011-01-07T15:27:23Z

Like Pinkie’s own escape into the blues, “Hong Kong Mississippi” proves what artists can do with modest means but an abundance of passion, pluck and reasons to play. ‘Hong Kong Mississippi’ Review: The Bluesman Next Door 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson was a D.J. at the time, traveling around the area and spinning blues and soul records for a living. In Baton Rouge, They’re Still Singing the Blues 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

With nearly 300 artifacts on display, the exhibit chronicles the band from its birth in England as a blues cover band to its current "50 and Counting" tour. Rolling Stones exhibit opening in Cleveland 2013-05-23T15:16:12Z

With modern patterns trending in greens, yellows, and blues, as Coop points out, wallpaper borders are an effective way to bring tons of personality to a space. The classic decorating trick that’s making a comeback 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

With 12 overlapping sets on Sunday night at Webster Hall, Globalfest included dance music, protest songs, tradition, fusion, electronics, shtick, spirituality, camp and the blues. Globalfest Showcases the Sounds and Traditions of World Music 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

“I told him, ‘Your timing is very bad,’ ” said Daryl Davis, an R&B and blues artist who plays with Berger. A final night in blackface: Baltimore’s Al Jolson impersonator calls it quits 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

And at 97, he stood as one of the last of the original Delta blues musicians who had migrated to Chicago but still toured the country. Blues musician "Pinetop" Perkins dies at 97 2011-03-22T00:39:00Z

But the blues has to grow, it has to breathe, and you have to take chances. Joe Louis Walker, the blues and beyond 2012-06-06T21:49:00Z

In addition to seasonal greens, berry tones and regal blues popped up on catwalks set up at Lincoln Center and around the city. NY Fashion Week opens with new fall trend: freedom 2013-02-07T20:59:09Z

Portland’s twisted vintage indie-rock band of the moment combines, jazz, rock and blues with a wink and lots of sass. Bumbershoot daily highlights 2013-08-29T20:39:56Z

“I may be the oldest blues singer around, me and Buddy Guy,” he said in October, during the first of several conversations, this one via video conference. Bobby Rush Lived the Blues. Six Decades On, He’s Still Playing Them. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

J. Geils plays the blues, and some songs became hits; Aerosmith has hits for days, many of which are based on the blues. Memorable homecoming for Aerosmith, J. Geils Band 2010-08-17T01:03:00Z

He sang work songs, love songs, spirituals, blues, calypsos and, as early as the 1960s, African music. Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

The Texas streets were rich with the blues of Lightnin’ Hopkins. Wilton Felder, musician who played on many pop hits, dies at 75 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

Some of the people who play the best Beethoven now are Japanese and then Eric Clapton is one of the greatest blues guitarists. Is music tribalism dead? 2011-07-23T23:07:50Z

Professional jealousy, tortured artist blues, Spinal Tap-ish excess and other cliches abound, but nobody seems to notice. This week's new films 2011-08-26T23:06:05Z

But then there’s “Blue Car,” a Greg Brown tune in blues form, which elicits something you’d almost hesitate to call a performance. New Music: The Dude Sings 2011-08-15T22:07:21Z

What similarities do you see between traditional Latin American music and the blues? Grammy nominee Gaby Moreno on genre bending, her Bowie tribute and how the blues taught her English 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

“There’s a place for it, especially if they’re trying to appeal to the average population, not necessarily the hard-core blues enthusiasts, because there aren’t that many of us left,” he says with a laugh. Two planned museums brighten the future of the blues 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Loose jackets made of washi paper and silk in vivid greens and blues were paired with sassy shorts and flowing, floor-length sundresses printed with a sunflower motif. 'Cool Japan' struts the runways at Fashion Week in Tokyo 2013-10-18T03:44:53Z

Those moments included the 1960s UK blues invasion, the pop-jazz movement of Stevie Wonder, 1970s funk fusion and "world fusion," and millennial rock, pop and film music. Jeff Beck: The unorthodox techniques that made him such a unique guitarist 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

But he sought out traditional songs, from blues to sea chanties, wrote new fingerpicking guitar arrangements and reworked the vocal lines so thoroughly that they entered the broader folk repertory bearing his stamp. The Singer Who Inspired Coen Brothers’ New Film 2013-12-05T22:59:33Z

In the early 1980s the band recorded for blues and folk labels: Blues Unlimited, Black Top and Rounder. Stanley Dural Jr., Founder of Buckwheat Zydeco, Dies at 68 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

So, he had a team recreate the first London apartment he and his band mates shared in 1962, complete with dirty dishes, beer bottles and blues records placed throughout the flat. Now you can visit the Rolling Stones' 1962 apartment 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

He was brought to Delmark Records by his fellow West Side blues guitarist Magic Sam. Jimmy Dawkins, Fast-Fingered Blues Guitarist, Dies at 76 2013-04-19T03:05:41Z

If that sounds like jazz — blues and jazz — it ought to. ‘The Jazz Palace,’ by Mary Morris 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

James Cotton, a pioneering harmonica player who worked with Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf and helped establish his instrument as an integral part of modern blues, died on Thursday in Austin, Tex. James Cotton, Blues Harmonica Legend, Dies at 81 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

The colors range from brilliant blues and reds to vibrant greens and yellows, not to mention royal purple. ArtsBeat: Colorful Pigeons in St. Mark's Square Stir Controversy 2012-08-29T19:56:52Z

"Mother of Lies" suggests jump blues, with heavy backbeat claps and much organ-driven energy. Essential tracks: J.D. McPherson's 'Let the Good Times Roll' a sharp shock 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

And in several places, she refers to the blues — the music, but also the color, and the mood. Lana Del Rey: She’d Be Sad, if She Cared (Which She Doesn’t) 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

That's the case with Alabama Shakes, a quartet whose first album, "Boys & Girls," is a quirky but undeniably stirring achievement in electric blues and soul. New CDs from Bonnie, Bakelite, Alabama Shakes | New CDs 2012-04-09T21:32:09Z

Josephine Oniyama is not another soul girl, even though some early breathless accounts of her work and voice are of the "you won't believe this isn't a classic lost R&B or blues recording" variety. New band of the day – No 1,298: Josephine 2012-06-29T08:00:00Z

It's definitely more infected by the 70s, the looseness of disco: hard-hitting big drums, wild guitars, outsider blues. Numero Group: the crate-digging record label's top 10 2013-06-13T16:05:50Z

She may be a preservationist, but her definition of jazz encompasses rhythm and blues, reggae and salsa. Review: Dianne Reeves Leads Journey of Jazz History at Rose Hall 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

A gruff, gabby charmer who has amassed a loyal following, Mr. Tyrell has the gnarly lived-in voice of an itinerant roustabout familiar with New Orleans blues traditions. Review: Steve Tyrell Keeps a Comfortable Pop-Swing Style in Honoring Sinatra 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Aerosmith, formed in 1970 in Boston, rose to fame when the band broke through as America’s answer to the Rolling Stones with its fusion of hard rock and blues. Johnny Depp jams with Aerosmith as band celebrates 50-year career 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

Over spare, acoustic country blues, the 66-year-old Iggy is less your wild uncle and more wise elder, singing in a tender, wistful growl: "Hang onto your girl, cause this is an unfriendly world." Review: Iggy and Stooges still have raw power 2013-04-29T14:07:09Z

Then, having selected from one of 10 professionally recorded blues backing tracks, you can record yourself singing the song and share your musical sorrows across the social sites, via Soundcloud. Click to download: Best of Bootie 2010, Kid Sister, Fenech Soler 2011-01-20T22:30:00Z

Yet the “desert blues” identified with Mali is a small part of the band’s eclectic sound. Review | Songhoy Blues puts its own exuberant take on African sounds 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

The musician and producer Ben Vaughn telephoned Vega to say that he was going to be in New York soon and was interested in getting together to play “blues music.” Play It Again (for the First Time) 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Their debut album, “Broken People,” merges soul and country on a shared foundation of gospel and blues. 10 Fall Pop and Jazz Albums (and One Festival) You Shouldn’t Miss 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The sound that developed was based on the jazz training but also blended other genres: hip-hop, blues, rock and soul. Chicago News Cooperative: Kids These Days: A Group With a Sound if Not a Genre 2011-07-31T02:45:26Z

An early influence on his style was Hank Marvin, lead guitarist for the Shadows, but his playing came to encompass the styles of such American blues stylists as Otis Rush, B.B. Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac founder, dies at 73 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ribot is a storied downtown guitarist whose interests run from the outside in: from experimental squall and electric-guitar burn to blues and folk and protest songs. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin, left, who died last year, will be celebrated in a concert with Buddy Guy, right, and others at the Apollo Theater. The Week Ahead: Feb. 19 ? 25 2012-02-17T15:52:59Z

He set himself the challenge of bringing that same combination of degradation and enrichment to the blues. ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z

This set of modestly scaled blues remakings of classics finds dignity in the downtrodden. Holiday Music for the Joyful, the Lonely and the Skeptical 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

I get down, I get the blues, but I can’t feel sorry for myself. Billy Joel’s Got a Good Job and Hits in His Head 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

I must confess here that I consider myself an alpinist in the New Orleans tradition: I ski the blues. Skiing Quebec, Where the Chef’s Table Is Just a Schuss Away 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

Paul Simon ties together his memories of the death of blues singer Johnny Ace with the passing of Lennon, but both are unconventional responses. Readers recommend songs about assassination: The results 2010-08-26T22:30:00Z

The memorabilia also includes "extremely rare" rock and blues posters and vintage photos. NYC auction to feature blues legend Johnny Winter's guitars 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

We cruised on through the realm of King Cotton, passing a stream of floating casinos on our way to Clarksdale, the heart of the delta and the real home of the blues. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z

Ms. McBryde is an alluringly flexible singer, fluent in classic country, blues and Southern rock, with a voice that moves easily from tender to tough. Ashley McBryde Takes Nashville, No Gimmicks Required 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

She also won the contemporary blues female artist and the contemporary blues album awards. Copeland, Ingram among winners of Blues Music Awards 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

Only "Memphis," a 1950s interracial romance set against the backdrop of the rhythm 'n' blues explosion, and the much-maligned "Addams Family," based on the macabre New Yorker cartoon characters, fit the bill. Star megawattage could shine in the 2010 Tony noms 2010-05-04T12:00:00Z

And he released a mix tape, “Nostalgia, Ultra,” in 2011 that was widely praised for its fresh take on contemporary rhythm and blues: restrained, heart-felt vocals and an air of wistful longing. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z

He decided the story should take place in Mississippi because it was the birthplace of the blues, but didn’t set out to write an explicitly blues novel. Bill Cheng’s Novel is ‘Southern Cross the Dog’ 2013-05-08T20:26:13Z

While living near Memphis, Mr. Cotton drove an ice truck and spent two years in the band of another blues giant, Howlin’ Wolf. James Cotton, hard-blowing harmonica master of the blues, dies at 81 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

After a period of serious health issues that caused him to finally stop performing live, blues legend B.B. Blues Legend B.B. King Dies At Age 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

“Shades of Blue” doesn’t attempt to be a purist survey of blues history rooted in the late 1920s and ’30s. Carole J. Bufford at the Metropolitan Room 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

This particular Reading Sunday also has a defining sound – a blues rock riff, played like blues rock still matters. Reading festival 2012: the smell of Sunday 2012-08-27T15:03:44Z

“I think it’s because of the blues that they were so steeped in.” Dee Dee Bridgewater Throws Herself a Memphis Soul Party 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

By the mid-1960s, the Beatles had inspired him to incorporate more rhythm 'n blues into his singing and he had found a new home for his recordings after meeting Gamble at a Philadelphia music shop. ‘Me and Mrs. Jones’ Singer Billy Paul Dead at Age 80 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Nader Tehrani, principal of the architecture firm NADAAA, has designed the new space, using elements that reflect the materials of the exhibited artworks, such as the deep blues of lapis lazuli seen in Sumerian designs. Met Museum to Renovate Its Ancient Near East and Cypriot Galleries 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

The right side, the pony, has a cooler palette of blues, whites, pinks and lavenders. At 37 feet tall, Jeff Koons’s flower-draped ‘Split-Rocker’ demands a whole lotta love 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

His jazz pianist father found work scarce as audiences turned to rhythm and blues. Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis to perform in S.Africa 2011-08-23T11:02:12Z

In an interview, Iglauer reflected on his favorite subject: the blues, and how to ensure that future generations will hear it.    Bruce Iglauer interview: 40 years of Alligator Records 2011-02-17T04:56:44Z

“Fuchsia Swing Song,” from late 1964, was his extremely accomplished debut as a leader, an example of avant-garde ’60s jazz that still shows affinities with hard bop and blues. ArtsBeat: Which Jazz Greats Were Left Off the Blue Note 100? 2014-03-24T21:04:37Z

“Yet the stack of many layers of technique allows the delivery to expand into a personalized expression that sounds unlike traditional blues figures, without losing respect for the art form.” Blake Mills Releases His Second Album, ‘Heigh Ho’ 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

And as far afield as his music might roam, his repertoire usually included at least a few Tin Pan Alley standards and, especially, plenty of blues. Yusef Lateef, Innovative Jazz Saxophonist and Flutist, Dies at 93 2013-12-24T19:55:27Z

Bill Luckett, the mayor, is an actor, lawyer and co-owner of a blues club with the actor Morgan Freeman, a native son. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

At least they're not recycling "Robert Johnson at the crossroads" blues cliches. Rainy start to day one of Lollapalooza 2013-08-03T10:20:00Z

Her paintings from Haida Gwaii, formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands, are filled with vivid colors — tropical pinks, yellows and blues. Cultured Traveler: Drawing Yourself Into the Scene 2013-12-12T16:43:08Z

As always, the lineup is heavy on classic rock, country rock and blues. Chateau Ste. Michelle concerts announced; Jeff Bridges stars 2011-04-18T18:31:25Z

He likes blues music for the same reason — it’s about everyday problems. Day Drinking with Japanese TV and comics creator Masayuki Qusumi 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

Last year's festival featured such diverse stars from the worlds of pop, rock and the blues as Lily Allen, Prince and B.B. Montreux festival boss promises strong line up 2010-04-26T12:26:00Z

Three others play double Dutch, framed from below, the blues of their jeans and tees fuzzing into the sky overhead. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

A music-history assertion—that hip-hop is the heir of deep blues—was part of the Madison Square Garden show. Jack White Links Hip-Hop and Blues at Madison Square Garden 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

“He’s one of the all-time great blues singers, and I had no idea what a tough rhythm guitar player he is.” A New Start And a Gumbo Of Old Sounds 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z

But rockabilly, that combination of country and western with the blues that became the first rock style, has lost one of its last important pioneers. Scotty Moore’s legacy: Elvis’s first guitarist helped created a signature rock sound 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Ally never really has the blues, even in the most humiliating circumstances. | 'What?s Your Number?': ?What?s Your Number?? With Anna Faris - Review 2011-09-30T04:23:03Z

RZA’s songs with the Black Keys weren’t exactly groundbreaking, but blues rock and hip-hop proved to be more familiar bedfellows than the traditions from which Banks & Steelz are pulling. Banks & Steelz — a.k.a. Paul Banks and RZA — mixed rock and rap at the 9:30 Club 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Johnny Winter, an American blues rock guitarist, vocalist and band leader best known for his virtuoso slide-guitar solos and raspy  vocals, was found dead in a hotel room outside Zurich, Swiss police said on Thursday. Famed blues guitarist Johnny Winter dead at 70 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

The Dead Weather-esque title single heralds the new album perfectly: a blend of White’s signature guitar-heavy blues rock seasoned with some folksy charm in the form of a violin solo. Review: Jack White goes country on second solo CD 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Every major publisher now is singing the “diversity of voices” blues. ‘A Conflicted Cultural Force’: What It’s Like to Be Black in Publishing 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

The blues musician Taj Mahal and the Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys are among contemporary artists who have dropped by to record. At 80, Bob Dylan finally gets a museum 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Its structural brilliance is that there’s no robust chorus or melody, just Ms. Franklin, her piano, a blues groove and her mood. Aretha Franklin Had Power. Did We Truly Respect It? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

He'd been listening to a lot of old blues music, and in the early sessions they cut four tracks that reflected it. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, an L.A. band, stare at 'Hypnotic Eye' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

The soulful, committed blues singer's new album "Slipstream" made the Top 10 on the Billboard album charts, no mean feat for a roots musician, and well-deserved. 12 top entertainment picks for the week of Sept. 2-8, 2012 2012-08-29T21:43:04Z

By the early 1960s she was playing with Little Milton, a blues guitarist and singer with links to the Chess label in Chicago. Fontella Bass, 72, Singer of ‘Rescue Me,’ Is Dead 2012-12-28T15:47:50Z

“I had never really heard gospel music, or rhythm and blues,” said Cropper, who chuckles frequently as he talks. A low-key Memphis guitar legend builds on musical legacy 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

“Brave Boys” recalls the Pogues, “Doc’s Day” is hillbilly blues, and a composing collaboration with Bob Dylan results in “Sweet Amarillo,” which would fit on “The Basement Tapes.” Review: ‘Remedy’ offers 7-part harmony and more 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

In the Gershwin, the strings dug into the score’s songful lines so eagerly that Ms. Wang was often overpowered, although at times they lacked the flexibility needed for the concerto’s Charleston, blues and ragtime beats. Review: Yuja Wang and the London Symphony Get Jazzy 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Johnny Winter, the Texas blues icon, died in Zurich, Switzerland on Wednesday at the age of 70. Johnny Winter, Blues Star, Is Dead at 70 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

But he had an idea for a two-piece blues band, and he thought her untutored style would be perfect. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z

The listener might not immediately recognize the blues in a guitar style that often sounds rooted in ragtime. Celebrating a subdued kind of blues 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Prolific songwriter Thomas Dorsey, whose many gems include "Peace in the Valley," also composed filthy blues tunes. Gospel music documentary a spiritual awakening 2011-06-22T21:14:06Z

But the pioneering musician never moved away from his first love, music, and toured well into his 70s, headlining blues and jazz festivals along with his son, Shuggie Otis. "Willie and the Hand Jive" singer Johnny Otis dies at 90 2012-01-20T00:27:44Z

The band released four groundbreaking albums that brought together blues, psychedelic rock and hard rock before disbanding in 1968. Ginger Baker, drummer in 1960s group Cream, dies aged 80 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Many people suffer from Sunday blues, dreading the thought of work on Mondays. Sunday blues: Growing up in an ultra-strict church 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

They were painted in bright blues, yellows and greens. In Hawaii, Surf, Sun and Snow 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

After another protracted layoff from music, Green weaned himself off his psychiatric medications; rejuvenated, he returned in 1996 with his Splinter Group, devoting himself largely to performing the classic blues repertoire. Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac founder, dies at 73 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

Norberto Lobo’s pieces, instrumental except for a bit of wordless singing, seem to move through country blues, Tin Pan Alley ballads, experimental drones and minimalism. Albums From Jesse Stacken and Norberto Lobo 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

The album was raw and muscular, flush with guitar histrionics and deep Texas blues, mixing both original compositions and tunes from Howlin’ Wolf, the Isley Brothers and Buddy Guy. Texas Monthly: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’s ‘Texas Flood’ Is Rereleased 2013-01-26T23:15:09Z

Body and Soul emerged in fluttering runs against Amendola's brushes, a Thelonious Monk quote turned to blues and then rockabilly. Charlie Hunter ? review 2011-04-07T17:23:12Z

In a new series called “Bruise Paintings,” his motif of the anxious face is now almost completely abstracted, rendered in a frenetic freehand with a palette of blues and repeated across linen in vast grids. In Rashid Johnson’s Mosaics, Broken Lives Pieced Together 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Maloney, a lifelong blues fan who always dreamed of owning a club, signed on a year later, managing the day-to-day operations. Highway 99 Blues Club, Seattle’s home of the blues, closing at end of year 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Surprised to learn that Lauper is topping the blues charts these days? Review: Cyndi Lauper proves she knows how to have fun with the blues 2010-09-03T18:49:00Z

“Bessie” is about a blues singer, but what the movie could really use is more soul. Review: ‘Bessie,’ on HBO, Stars Queen Latifah as Blues Singer 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Bland was known as the “the Sinatra of the blues” and was heavily influenced by Nat King Cole, often recording with lavish arrangements to accompany his smooth vocals. Bobby (Blue) Bland, Blues Singer, Dies at 83 2013-06-24T04:40:39Z

The museum's collection includes artifacts from King's Las Vegas recording studio, along with exhibits connecting blues music with the history, culture and economy of the Mississippi Delta. Bluesman B.B. King returns to Mississippi hometown 2012-08-22T00:01:04Z

A: Really the first time I ever heard it was on the old Delta blues records. Sonny Landreth, never straying far from the blues 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

That fusion of soul and blues, memorably highlighted on the 1961 album Two Steps From The Blues, paved the way for the likes of Stax and Muscle Shoals later in the decade. Singer Bobby 'Blue' Bland dies at 83 2013-06-24T14:59:59Z

A seemingly endless river, crocheted from a rainbow of blues, the work was created through "crochet parties" involving strangers and newfound friends in a modern update of the traditional quilting bee. Artist Mandy Greer molds the fiber of life 2011-11-30T23:49:57Z

Musicians stroll aboard to josh, jive and jam on some tasty Chicago blues. 'Pullman Porter Blues' carries pungent blues and heavy melodrama 2012-10-05T20:06:04Z

Brian Kramer, a friend who hosts a blues guitar course there, described him as “telepathically honest in a brutal but brilliant way.” Settled in Sweden, the Man Who First Booked Dylan 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Undertones of the blues crop up briefly, often tossed into an impressionist thicket of arpeggios and wandering lines. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Soul, an amalgamation of black gospel and rhythm and blues, first found its way onto the pop charts in the nineteen-fifties, and reached a kind of apogee in the early sixties. The Singularity of Adele’s Soul 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

It kept guests dancing to a blend of blues, soul, folk and funk music. After a Last-Minute Date, an Awakening 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Each had signature moves, too, a color-coded style: the blues did something closest to ballet; the greens scooted and slapped their pelvises, propelled by undulating torsos; the reds, jazzier, draped themselves over gold railings. Review: ‘Battleground,’ a Dance Battle Punctuated by a Rainbow of Limbs 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

While it signals the importance of other values to the religious believer, looking forward to eternal rewards "over there", it seems more immediately to express an ordinarily glum fit of the "winter blues". Poem of the week: The Shortness of Life by Francis Quarles 2013-01-07T10:21:04Z

His music, which could recall not only jazz and blues but also Bach, Debussy, Ravel and Vaughan Williams, was performed on major stages, including those of Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls in New York. William Thomas McKinley, Jazz-Loving Composer, Dies at 76 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

He moved to Grenada at age 11 and met Magic Sam, an older guitarist and influential blues figure. Blues guitarist Magic Slim dies in Pa. at age 75 2013-02-22T00:10:16Z

Led Zeppelin’s history of borrowing from other creators is well documented; in many cases, the band eventually acknowledged the debt and added the names of blues artists like Willie Dixon to song credits. Stolen or Original? Hear Songs From 7 Landmark Copyright Cases. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Also, the rich kimono silks worked great with the masculine khaki and blues and with the vaguely uniform-style tailoring. Fashion Review: Collections From Balenciaga, Rick Owns, Dries Van Noten, Rochas, Ann Demeulemeester 2012-03-02T00:23:08Z

“Te Bourao II”, which depicts a stream with birds and flowers in a rich palette of blues and greens, was painted in 1897 when Gauguin was living on the Polynesian island of Tahiti. Tahitian Gauguin sold for 9.5 million euros 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

A blues musician in Denver received an email alert from The New York Times. Bin Laden story shows changing media nature 2011-05-02T22:28:32Z

One plant, Quality Record Pressings, in Salina, Kan., opened in 2011 after its owner, Chad Kassem, grew impatient with delays at a larger plant where his own line of blues reissues was being pressed. Vinyl Records Are Making a Comeback 2013-06-09T21:52:43Z

It arrived there on a blazing heatwave afternoon when the natural light in this state-of-the-art workshop set off the reds, dark blues and mellow flesh tones of Lorenzetti's figures against their heavenly gold background. Hull will go to heaven for this: gallery acquires Lorenzetti's glowing Christ 2013-07-16T16:24:38Z

Although known more for rearranging other blues artists' tunes, Edwards wrote several songs including "Long Tall Woman Blues," "Gamblin' Man" and "Just Like Jesse James." David "Honeyboy" Edwards, blues man, dies at 96 2011-08-30T15:22:32Z

It is a mix of blues, gospel, and country, and it’s all very religious. Pops Staples’s Belated Finale 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Offscreen, African-American dancers trained white performers; onscreen, the blues and jazz filled soundtracks and white stars like Astaire and Shirley Temple appeared in blackface. Escape With Me Into the Delirious World of 1940s Musicals 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

TUE Samples of wine and beer by local microbreweries and wineries, blues music, 5:30 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-02-21T01:58:56Z

Mr. Brozman’s music was rooted in the blues, but the open tunings, syncopations and microtonal inflections of the blues inspired him to soak up styles worldwide. Bob Brozman, Guitarist, Is Dead at 59 2013-05-02T00:36:58Z

Their breakout hit was blues great Big Mama Thornton's 1953 rendition of "Hound Dog." Rock 'n' roll songwriter Jerry Leiber dead at 78 2011-08-22T22:42:44Z

He proceeded to rip huge blues leads from his loud electric guitar, and Andrew Hall kicked his bass drum so hard a camera on stage bounced inches into the air. Seattle rock trio Dude York's new music, bassist at Neumos 2012-06-17T20:45:06Z

Whether singer and guitarist CeDell Davis is literally the "Last Man Standing" among rural Delta blues players, as the title of his forthcoming album puts it, he belongs to an undeniably exclusive club. 'Last Man Standing' finds CeDell Davis growling his finest Delta blues 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Outkast — the combination of rock and funk and blues and all kind of musicality within their hip-hop — they overcame the language barrier. Jay-Z’s Producer No I.D. on the Grammys: ‘Urban Culture Is Now Pop Culture’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Marsalis said he was looking forward to sharing with viewers "the incredible variety and richness of our national culture -- from ballet to the blues, from barbecue to the backbeat." Jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to join TV news show 2011-12-15T22:34:56Z

He gave the museum a custom-designed plaque composed of miniature Led Zeppelin album covers and an engraved tribute to Delta blues musicians who influenced the band. Robert Plant 'Walking Into Clarksdale' on Saturday 2012-08-09T16:30:19Z

Round Here Buzz” is about soaking the small-town blues in alcohol. Are you listening to country music? Or just gossiping about it? 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

But from an early age Raitt was an accomplished guitarist and singer who idolized African-American blues singers, particularly women. Mavis and Bonnie show powerful musical sisterhood at the Chateau 2012-09-09T19:46:04Z

“When I first came to Washington, the stores downtown didn’t carry any jazz records or blues records,” Ahmet said in a 2002 interview. These Turkish brothers found their calling in D.C., championing the Black music scene 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

The blues, however, didn't pay as well as rock. Elvis Rocks. But He's Not the First 2010-03-12T14:25:00Z

It was either an appreciation of blues and folk or a wholesale theft of those genres. Review | Was Led Zeppelin the best or the worst of rock-and-roll? A new book will help you decide. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

There were hard times when the blues fell out of fashion with young black audiences in the early 1960s. B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

They started with chanting and acoustic guitar, but built up to the glorious desert blues that the Islamists are trying to destroy. Songlines Music Awards 2012 Winners' Concert – review 2012-11-25T18:43:15Z

Early in his career, he worked with B. B. King and other blues and rhythm-and-blues artists. Paul Jeffrey, Saxophonist Who Worked With Thelonious Monk, Dies at 81 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

In this telling, Rosetta is a lovable rascal raised in the church but born to sing the blues, and Marie is a wide-eyed church girl scandalized by her idol’s rough edges. Review | ‘Marie and Rosetta’ offers a handshake intro to an early rock icon 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

“I was so happy to hear someone of her generation connect to the blues and to the origins of jazz in the way that she did.” A Car Accident Couldn’t Halt the Saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin’s Rise 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z

If the blues was about earthly troubles, the rock that Turner's crew created seemed to shout that the sky was now the limit. Elvis Rocks. But He's Not the First 2010-03-12T14:25:00Z

He has sung blues and soul standards, vintage and widely beloved music; sales of “Let’s Stay Together” spiked immediately after he sang it. Critic?s Notebook: Presidents Sometimes Take the Role of First Musician 2012-02-22T23:25:19Z

But her voice, capable of plummeting to the deepest blues nether regions and mimicking the clarion call of a brass horn, refuses to wilt. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z

He again returned to slim shorts, and reproduced paintings from the artist Brian Calvin on blocky tops, repeating the chalky pinks, blues and greens on sneakers and dip-dyed cream shorts. Fashion Review: Fashion Review — Spring Men’s Wear Collections in Paris 2012-07-03T20:38:23Z

Tate waxes eloquent on embracing “the blues” in order to “keep the blues off.” ‘Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts’ Review: He Made a ‘Pill for the Pain’ 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Darius then added a missing note to the scale to form, like magic, a classic blues scale. A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

“I get a bit of seasonal blues every year,” said Mr. Norton, an editor for The Growler magazine. Friendsgiving Has Become Just as Fraught as Thanksgiving 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mellencamp’s skillfully turned songs are mostly country-inflected rock, with hints of gospel, blues and, yes, zydeco folded into the mix. ‘Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,’ From Stephen King and John Mellencamp 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Jolson donned blackface not in jest, it is said, but to introduce white audiences to the thrilling blues and ragtime music pioneered by African Americans. A final night in blackface: Baltimore’s Al Jolson impersonator calls it quits 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Wave ’em ’round if you understand that even black people find it hard to bear black people’s blues. Bothered by Baltimore’s riots? Where have you been — for decades? 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Everything comes from African music, but there are some elements that go between different roots. It’s like how flamenco singers sing — it sounds like when B.B. King sings the blues.” The Bolero Is Timeless. Miguel Zenón Is Giving It a Jazzy Tinge. 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

The green-pigmented verdigris paint and hand-drawn, individually stenciled wallpaper with a flower pattern in pinks, yellows, and blues dates to the Turners. Three-and-a-half centuries of mythos surrounds Salem’s House of the Seven Gables 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Expect a wide array of colors, from pale shades and skin tones to bold purples, oranges, midnight blues and classic black. Oscar fashion goes bold. Thank Lady Gaga! 2011-02-22T20:01:13Z

Mr. Kalb sang lead vocals on the blues songs, and his wiry, keening lead guitar lines infused the band’s arrangements with a hectic intensity. Danny Kalb, Guitarist Who Gave Blues-Rock an Edge, Dies at 80 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

The musicians bent in and out of blues form as they moved into a steady three-beat pattern, and solos folded neatly into composed sections. Ron Miles Headlines the Village Vanguard, at Last, as the Club Reopens 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

The Browns crossed over into pop, folk and rhythm and blues, including the No. 1 hit "The Three Bells," previously a success for the French cabaret singer Edith Piaf. Bonnie Brown of the country music trio the Browns dead at 77 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z

Friday; Left Turn on Blue blues, 7:30 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-05-05T19:33:17Z

“They had been taught that the blues was the bottom of the totem pole, done by slaves, and they didn’t want to think along those lines.” B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

It includes jazz, supper-club standards, silky soul, blues, “American Bandstand” pop and just about every other genre that existed in the early ’60s. A-R-E-T-H-A 2011-07-09T20:19:25Z

So, in a major case of trading up, SNL booted and replaced him with Jack White, who performs an apocalyptic blues ballad seemingly written directly in response to these troubled times. Saturday Night Live: Jim Carrey, Mike Pence and a very pesky fly 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z

He moved to Paris in the 1970s, also on Slim's advice, becoming part of the American jazz and blues scene there. Sugar Blue played harp with the Rolling Stones 2011-01-06T22:10:05Z

At times, as on the ragged field holler “Take Me Away,” he approximates the growl of Tom Waits or an old blues singer. Willis Earl Beal makes music out of loneliness 2012-04-03T17:09:00Z

An icy rain fell as Mr. Fenster, an accounts manager who puts in 60-hour weeks when he’s not quarterbacking the blues, dropped back to pass. 2010-01-30T01:35:00Z

It’s a food version of music’s basic blues progression — a simple but winning structure that lends itself to endless possibilities for riffing. For scallops that sizzle with a drizzle 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

The music mixes elements of blues, R&B and local music into a frothy, up-tempo blend with an irresistible beat. Stanley Dural Jr., who popularized zydeco music as Buckwheat Zydeco, dies at 68 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

Just what genius suggested adding a police whistle to the roadhouse blues of “Highway 61 Revisited?” Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

He was a big favorite, and a different kind of music than I played at that time, which was mostly Chicago-style blues and rock. Mick Jagger on James Brown: "I Copied All His Moves" 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

His eclectic indie-folk sound is inspired by Irish song and bluegrass, jazz and the blues, calypso and swing. Music Match: If You Like Roy Orbison . . . 2012-09-25T22:27:52Z

“White folks don’t understand about the blues,” she tells Cutler. Resilience and dignity are the rich, bluesy music of 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. King grew up in the Jim Crow South and lived to see the blues evolve into a musical hybrid. B.B. King, Mississippi master of the blues, dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Joe Bihari did not limit himself to jukeboxes and rhythm and blues. Joe Bihari, Who Put Early R&B on Record, Dies at 88 2013-12-12T02:47:20Z

Another option would be the dairy’s sampler of five blues: Bluehorn, Caveman, Crater Lake, Oregon and Smokey, without the Rogue River. They’ll Be So Blue Thinking About You 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

Melancholic yet hopeful, Olsen’s songs are that elusive Americana patchwork: equal parts folk, punk rock, country, and blues. Seattle-area music and nightlife events Sept. 7-13: Angel Olsen, Lavender Country and more 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Purportedly about a dismal romantic engagement with John Mayer, it is produced in the style of Mayer, dressed liberally with blues guitar noodling. Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Vampire’ Takes a Note From Taylor Swift: Leave a Mark 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

And if you are worried about how these pinks will pair with your existing decorating scheme, know that they work well with just about any other color: grays, browns, blues, reds and, yes, even greens. An argument for the color that makes everybody look (and feel) good 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

A fixture of the New York blues scene, Youngblood met Hendrix in the mid 60s, when the guitarist was still performing under the name Jimmy James. Jimi Hendrix estate sued by former bandmate 2010-07-14T11:48:00Z

As for the assertion about Sue, at his institution, having the blues over losing her primacy, “I'm not gonna put her on Prozac just yet,” Makovicky said. Spinosaurus aegyptiacus revealed to be first semiaquatic dinosaur 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

It wedged ecstatic improvised blues choruses inside an owlishly clever composition; improvisation and composition, it symbolised everything Brubeck believed in. The best of Dave Brubeck – in video clips 2012-12-06T11:38:57Z

The Seattle blues singer known as Lady A and the country group now known as Lady A met via video conference Monday. Seattle blues singer Lady A talking with country group Lady A 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

And the solo demos of “Cold Turkey” and an early fragment of “Well Well Well” sound more like vintage rural blues than the electric band versions would. Half a Century Later, John Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ Still Hits Hard 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Their gigs are a throwback to a time that pre-dates even the Beatles, taking inspiration from iconic blues artists like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. 'We're not the new Beatles' 2013-06-15T10:53:14Z

"Glenn" and "June" - both works taken from French archives - feature vivid reds, blues and yellows painted in different layers and at different times. Gerhard Richter opens largest exhibit in Paris 2012-06-04T19:29:09Z

By 1973, Mr. Morrison had consummated his fusion of rock, R&B, gospel, jazz, country, blues, folk, Celtic and classical music, and he had built an eager audience with hits like “Moondance” and “Domino.” CD Reissues: Van Morrison, Sarah Vaughn and More 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

I would have went with just the piano and had Casey on a stool making eye contact with me like only his baby blues can. Don't Drop Off Your Key Lee, Casey James has 50 Ways To Leave 'American Idol' 2010-05-19T15:08:00Z

In fact, the fourth stanza talks about the "blues", including the word in its trio of rhymes, and about how walking cures them. Chain Ghazal: Chickens by Esther Greenleaf Mürer 2013-03-18T12:33:15Z

As I started to create the list, I noticed that it was tending towards country, blues and classic rock, so I went all in on that. Sweet Potatoes and Pilgrims: Listen to TIME?s Thanksgiving Songs on Spotify 2011-11-23T17:09:56Z

The riffs are based in an offshoot blues language that descends directly from Black Sabbath. Music Review: Saint Vitus, the Band, at Saint Vitus, the Bar 2012-09-26T22:12:19Z

The show starts with a documentary about the making of the Midwest rocker's latest disc, followed by a three-act set featuring an acoustic performance, a small blues/country combo and full rock band. John Mellencamp headlines McCaw Hall Tuesday 2011-04-07T19:30:06Z

That came clearly to the fore on “Big Ben,” a blues by Mr. Lovano, featuring his bleating output on aulochrome, a double soprano saxophone. Music Review: Ad Hoc Quartet With Common Roots 2010-08-29T21:38:00Z

Invited by a traveling blues band to be its vocalist, Na Rose reluctantly feels compelled to relinquish her dreams of singing to care for the ailing Nellie, who intends to bequeath her the premises. | New Jersey: Brothel?s Guests: Love and Dreams 2011-07-24T03:50:03Z

She opted for a short purple dress instead of traditional formal attire, and hired the group Sha-Na-Na, who “played what the listeners called real modern blues music.” For One Night in 1965, the Supremes Brought the Two Detroits Together 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Samuel Charters, an influential blues and jazz historian and record producer, died on March 18 in Sweden. Samuel Charters, influential blues historian and record producer, dies 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

That is not to say that all blues has to be grim - or that the album is. At 80, blues legend John Mayall sings about a world gone crazy 2014-05-07T15:22:23Z

Now the 84-year-old blues great becomes the subject of the latest installment of the PBS biography series “American Masters.” Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy looks back on a special career 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Billboard: After all these years as a pop star, why did you decide to record a blues album? Cyndi Lauper realizes longtime dream with "Blues" 2010-06-18T20:54:00Z

Mr. Allison, who grew up in the blues heartland of the Mississippi Delta, began his career as a jazz pianist in the 1950s before developing his own brand of ironic, blues-flavored music. Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

With songs drawn from blues and country, Jones is following a tried and tested road into continued relevance. Tom Jones 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

It’s not always blues, but it’s always good. In Baton Rouge, They’re Still Singing the Blues 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Operatic arias delivered in a commanding bass-baritone voice, bird calls, lovers’ baby talk, the blues — all this and more were part of Joseph Keckler’s performance at Pangea on Thursday. Review: Joseph Keckler Shares Operatic Overtones and Tales at Pangea 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

The Boss turned his anthem into blues on the Mall, working with a single guitar the entire range of power within. Five highlights from The Concert for Valor on the National Mall 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

The band’s success continued through the 1980s, and while later albums — in which they returned to their Texan blues roots — didn’t climb the charts, the trio still packed stadiums. Dusty Hill, Long-Bearded Bassist for ZZ Top, Dies at 72 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

It’s like the difference between Bach and the blues. Inspiration Made Concrete in ‘Self-Taught Genius’ Exhibition 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

“By making it broad, we also touch on the universal and relatable element of the blues, that suffering is a shared experience. Our need to express pain is something we all share.” Celebrating a subdued kind of blues 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

And in “Almost Like the Blues,” a blues with a Latin undercurrent, Mr. Cohen sings about witnessing unbearable misery and turning inward: “I let my heart get frozen/To keep away the rot.” Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

ZZ Ward's confident mix of rock, blues, R&B and soul offered counterpoint. Made in America L.A.: Day 1 sizzles, Top Dawg claims throne 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

And he is credited with helping to keep alive an African-American musical tradition — the black string band — that predates the blues and influenced country music and bluegrass. Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z

Yet there also are such brash paintings as Julia Dzikiewicz’s “Zombies and Suffragists,” with its thick encaustic blues and oranges and embedded crystals to represent water drops. In the galleries: In ‘Everyware,’ new-technology photo pieces exhibit nostalgia

We get glimpses into pretty hardcore punk on We're Not Good People, deep south American blues with a hint of grungey metal that Jack White would be proud of on Coliseum. Readers' reviews: Muse, Kanye West Presents GOOD Music, Bloc Party 2012-10-01T17:17:06Z

The blues legend died late Thursday at home in Las Vegas, at the age of 89. President Obama Remembers B.B. King 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

But now, after having filmed all those “Belfast” close-ups without color, he admits it will be hard to go back to reds, yellows and blues. This Movie Season, It’s a Black-and-White Boom 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

The Rolling Stones are about to release their first album in 11 years, “Blue & Lonesome,” a collection of classic blues covers. Judging albums by their cover (songs) 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Clapton once described Johnson as, "the most important blues singer that ever lived". Robert Johnson revelation tells us to put the brakes on the blues 2010-05-27T09:56:00Z

He went out on his own when he was in his 80s and in 1988 released an album of Chicago blues entitled "After Hours." Blues musician "Pinetop" Perkins dies at 97 2011-03-21T23:51:00Z

Along with the singer Geddy Lee and the guitarist Alex Lifeson, he helped pioneer an audacious strain of brainy, intricate hard rock that perhaps borrowed more voraciously from Ayn Rand than the blues. The Misfit Awesomeness of Neil Peart and Rush 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

“Lover’s Touch” is a lazy, appealing blues number, and “Candy,” which ambles aimlessly and essentially without topic, still sounds purposeful, especially with Mike Campbell’s slick guitar work. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Sarah McLachlan, Devo and Tom Petty 2010-06-13T21:44:00Z

That includes the blues of black Americans, the Zydeco of Louisiana's Creoles, Mexican norteño and Tejano conjunto music, and other styles that spring from deep cultural wells and get crowds dancing in obscure rooms. Arhoolie Records set highlights 50 years of roots-music 2013-01-24T23:02:35Z

SAT Dance lesson, 7 p.m., dance to Two Scoops Combo with Eric Moore boogie-woogie humor and blues, 8 p.m. Community calendar: First Thursday, Evergreen State Fair, Happy Tails Wine Walk, and more 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bennett calls Tucker one of jazz’s great singers, but she was also singing the Jewish blues. Review: ‘The Outrageous Sophie Tucker’ Recalls a Jazz Powerhouse 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

It sees past the Godfathers of Metal tag, returning them to their roots, in a thrillingly grim area between the late-60s blues revival and the last bitter dregs of psychedelia: a kind of curdled Cream. Black Sabbath: 13 – review 2013-06-06T14:29:01Z

Early blues performer Bo Carter often performed with influential string band the Mississippi Sheiks. The 19 greatest double entendre songs 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

It will explore the genesis of her deeply personal catalog, filled with a blend of rock, folk, country, blues and gospel stemming from her southern roots. Lucinda Williams, Singer and Prolific Songwriter, Is Writing a Memoir 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

He’s kind of a maestro of blues and African-American classical music. An Artist Who Makes Paintings Without a Canvas 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

And so when Jim talks about the walking blues, that feeling of being disconnected, it reminds me of feeling like you weren’t enough for someone you really wanted to be enough for. Stephen McKinley Henderson, an August Wilson Stalwart 2010-06-08T22:21:00Z

There were also generous drop-shoulder coats, and the palette consisted of navy/cadet blues, spruce green and mulberry. On the Runway: Paris Men's: Nip It, Bud 2011-01-23T19:26:09Z

Perhaps the more significant word in the show’s title is not “blues,” but “all.” Review | In the galleries: A multi-sensory exhibit with cherry blossoms and a dire warning 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

She ended up experimenting with early pigment sources like azurite minerals and cochineal insects, sources of rich blues and red hues. An Artist at Home on the Fault Lines 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Then, another blues, the first of what will be six takes of “Outlaw Blues.” Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

The colors were also glorious: cheerful pinks, bright blues, orange, a bit of yellow, violet. Fashion Review: Comme Des Gar?ons, Rei Kawakubo, Lanvin, Gaultier, C?line and Junya Watanabe on the Paris Runways 2012-03-05T00:03:47Z

Not long after the Allman Brothers Band first started liquefying rock, blues, country and soul into a sticky new elixir, people started calling it Southern rock. Perspective | Gregg Allman’s Southern rock odyssey spanned worlds within worlds 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

It's a quirky, ad-free station playing a great range of music – the breakfast show features 1930s southern blues – and has some likably eccentric presenters. PM 2010-04-21T14:25:00Z

A color palette of deep reds, purples, blues, pinks and yellows gave fiery life to dramatic silhouettes in gowns and party dresses of various lengths, adorned with large bows or voluminous sleeves. Carolina Herrera brings splashes of color on Valentine’s Day 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

She’s returning with a new album delving into her Texas roots in country, folk, blues and gospel music one on of the most personal albums of her impressive career. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

He is joined on the front line by another blues musician of the first order, the trumpeter Lee Morgan. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

Riding the wave of Waters, BB King, Otis Rush, and other players, Guy found his own style and became one of the most recognizable blues artists of the Chicago blues sound. Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy looks back on a special career 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Other deep, saturated blues similar to cobalt blue are also popular right now. Cobalt Blue Is Color Rushing Our Summer 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

He started playing the guitar when he was six, and studied music and ethnomusicology at Washington University, specialising in the history of the delta blues. Bob Brozman obituary 2013-04-28T16:48:21Z

This month, former Marine Todd Winn pulled his old military uniform from the back of the closet, removed it from a protective garment bag and stared at his dress blues in silence for several minutes. A former Marine protested police brutality with duct tape over his mouth. His shoes melted in the heat. 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

As white rock 'n’ rollers usurped black rhythm and blues artists in the 1950s, countless covers became known not as covers but rather as the definitive version. Weezer’s cover album: Is the rock band honoring or exploiting the originals? 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

In 2006 he was in Signature Theater Company’s New York revival of August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars,” putting his musical background to good use portraying a blues musician named Floyd. Lance Reddick, Star of ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick,’ Dies at 60 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

But after some time with him, the still-sparkling blues and the impish smile help convince you that he could have definitely had seductive powers. Scotty Bowers and His Sexual Tell-All of Old Hollywood 2012-01-27T22:08:45Z

Pritchard, 33, grew up on rock 'n' roll and discovered the St. Louis blues scene after high school but stopped playing music for a living to raise his two small children. Grave marker project helps bury the blues 2013-12-30T14:37:27Z

After enjoying some acclaim in the 1970s, the band became a major commercial success in the early 1980s, with the hits “Love Stinks,” “Freeze Frame” and “Centerfold,” which blended blues harmonies with bouncy synthesized pop. J. Geils, Whose Band’s Catchy Pop Hits Colored the 1980s, Dies at 71 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Johnny Winter, an American blues rock guitarist, vocalist and band leader best known for his virtuoso slide-guitar solos and raspy  vocals, was found dead in a hotel room outside Zurich, Swiss police said on Thursday. Blues legend Johnny Winter found dead in Swiss hotel room 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

After all, people may think the blues are about heartbreak, but to get to heartbreak, you first have to pass through love. ‘Lackawanna Blues’ Review: A Soulful Master Class in Storytelling 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

“I can hear the history of where he comes from in that music. It’s regal. I hear Africa. I hear Texas. I hear the blues.” At 80, Billy Harper’s Rhapsodic Saxophone Is Still a Towering Force 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

The blues guitarist and Austin native Gary Clark Jr. opens the 45th season of this long-running live concert series, performing music from his latest album, “This Land,” which was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Austin City Limits’ and ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

He became interested in rock ’n’ roll and the blues at an early age and had his own band by the time he was 15.  Sam Andrew, Guitarist for Big Brother and the Holding Company, Dies at 73 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Guy says even his son was unaware of his significance as a blues player until he was old enough to go a blues club. Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy looks back on a special career 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

His use of colour, however, is fantastic – the bright blues and greens are just right. Another view on Gauguin: Maker of Myth 2010-12-20T22:45:00Z

Instead he plays a song, a warped electronic blues improvisation. Atlas Sound – review 2012-07-23T14:44:51Z

I was living in Brighton, there was a shop called Mad Hatters and I'd seen one or two blues guys wearing these hats. BBC Sound Of 2015: James Bay 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Related Topics: All-TIME 100, Music, , Populist Get this album The songwriter who popularized the blues form, W.C. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

But he said the pair are still friends, half a century after they bonded over a love of American blues music. Keith Richards says Mick Jagger enraged him 2010-10-24T19:16:00Z

Through the set, Mr. Campbell’s guitar solos encompassed stinging blues, California country twang and ragalike drones and bends. Music Review: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Beacon Theater 2013-05-22T21:35:34Z

Scottish singer Isobel Campbell turns "Don't Make It Easy" into a Delta blues suggestive moan based around a simple guitar line. 'Remembering Mountains' a remarkable tribute to Karen Dalton 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

It all helped to put my own blues into perspective. Heartbreak specialists: how Mississippi bluesmen got me through my divorce 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

Rodriguez translates this energy into a rich array of blues, purples, yellows and reds that saturate the page and allow Hendrix to appear across the arc of his life in multiple shades and colors. Sonic Sensations: Picture Books About Nina Simone and Jimi Hendrix 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

He suggests a serene color palette with soft yellows and blues to highlight — but not distract from — the natural surroundings. Creating the perfect outdoor space for relaxing and entertaining 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Young blues shouter Etta James is ripping it up at a Nashville club. What our writers love this week 2012-01-25T23:26:04Z

He learned hard work during the week, blues on Saturday evenings and gospel on Sunday mornings. She’s still taking us there: Mavis Staples soars again in late career 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

These two tracks are slow blues performances that showcase the 22-year-old guitarist’s stunning technique, tone and taste. Eric Clapton: Still at the Crossroads 2013-04-12T20:18:12Z

She prefers neutrals and pale blues and greens. Designing a comfortable sunroom suitable for all seasons 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

But you can’t disconnect hip-hop from R & B, from the blues, from gospel even. Angie Thomas Lets Hip-Hop Speak in Her New Novel, ‘On the Come Up’ 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

The color scheme of the guest rooms will change from light salmon to “light creams and taupes, with silvery blues, greens, rose and yellows,” Mr. Tihany said. Redesigning the Polo Lounge 2012-10-12T22:02:43Z

The only fictional tale of the bunch, it brings to vivid, pulsating life a blues party from 1980, when young London Black people found refuge, and love, at house parties. Steve McQueen unveils an anthology of racism and resistance 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

On “Soft Aggression” — the final song on his debut EP, “Fallin’” — he pushes even further on both fronts, all in an intriguingly wobbly singing style, with flickers of broken SoundCloud soul and also the blues. Drake Clears His Throat With DJ Khaled, and 10 More New Songs 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

In acrylic works like “In the Likeness of Fire” and “An Echo of Cinders,” he painted in reds, yellows, oranges and blues to illustrate the flames that incinerated Jews in crematories. Fred Terna, Creator of Fiery Holocaust Paintings, Dies at 99 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z

As a prescription for lockdown blues, Edinburgh, Scotland-based Eden offers bread pudding aromatic with crushed cardamom, an homage to Tashkent, long called “the city of bread.” Take a culinary journey with these new travel-inspired cookbooks 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

But the stars here are the paintings, all new, and the expanses of light and space released by their palette-knifed slabs of singing blues, yellows and reds. 10 Galleries to Visit in Chelsea 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

This complex ghost story about racial privilege, cultural appropriation and the blues is written with Kunzru’s customary eloquence and skill. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

“I wanted to tell my blues,” she said, which she defined as both a “12-bar phrase” but also “the stories on top.” Raye, Tired of Music’s Waiting Game, Releases an Album at Last 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

Even when it's just him and his band playing, though, his chunky blues churns along like a combine harvester. Pulp storm Reading festival 2011 2011-08-28T11:37:21Z

One laid-back violist strummed his instrument as if playing the blues. L.A. Philharmonic breathes fire into Saariaho world premiere 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The concert, a benefit for the Blues Foundation, with proceeds supporting a building fund for its Blues Hall of Fame in Memphis, could have succumbed to corny maxims about the mortal wages of the blues. Music Review: ?Robert Johnson at 100? at the Apollo Theater 2012-03-07T19:51:48Z

An additional lawsuit established that blues legend Chester “Howlin’ Wolf” Burnett was a previously uncredited author on another track called “The Lemon Song.” Plagiarists or innovators? The Led Zeppelin paradox endures 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

On Sunday, they won for best traditional blues album for their release "Joined at the Hip," giving Smith his first ever Grammy. Old and new stars come together Grammy awards show 2011-02-14T07:01:55Z

The book dwells rather too long on the Western classical tradition, and gives short shrift to popular forms like jazz, blues and hip-hop. Voice-overs 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Their rhythmic, Sisyphean actions are accompanied by blues singing and cello. Review | A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

She’s a good actress, in other words, and Ms. Taylor-Johnson matches the colors and the visual texture — the chilly blues and pulsing reds, the drab daylight and the velvety dusk — to Anastasia’s moods and desires. Review: In ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie, Sex Is a Knotty Business 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Sledge’s style was influenced as much by country music as it was by gospel and rhythm and blues, and he sometimes covered songs popularized by country performers such as Charlie Rich and Charlie Pride. Percy Sledge, soul balladeer of ‘When a Man Loves a Woman,’ dies at 74 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

In their physical presence the dishes are indeed impactful — a strange and deeply saturated palette of purples, lavenders, greens, pinks and blues. Wolvesmouth at MOCA: Craig Thornton puts his art on a plate, and then you eat it 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

"Dating back to the 1940s, rhythm and blues was intended as a kind of catch phrase that was referring to any music made by or for black Americans," he said. Smithsonian Folklife Festival opens on mall in DC 2011-06-30T21:51:10Z

“We’ve seen some great use of color, whether it’s nude tones mixed in with saturated oranges and greens and blues,” London-based stylist PC Williams said. Prints great and small dominate colorful spring catwalks 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

SAT Dance workshop, 7:30 p.m., dance swing and blues with live music, wear shoes that won't mark wood floor, 8:30 p.m. Community calendar 2011-08-17T23:00:57Z

For those who prefer their rock on the softer side and with a healthy dose of blues, singer-songwriter Marc Cowhn — best known for his hit “Walking In Memphis” — is headlining a near-ideal evening of music. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Adia Victoria, a 32-year-old songwriter who grew up in rural South Carolina and is based in Nashville, likes to call herself a “modern blues woman.” Adia Victoria Wants to Make the Blues Dangerous Again 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Under a blazing midday sun in late 2013, Allen Stewart surveyed the scene before him: The Gulf of Thailand, a spectrum of blues, stretched out as far as the eye could see. ‘Old Thailand’ Found on Sleepy Islands 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

When Otis began recording on his own, he veered away from straight-up blues into more esoteric terrain, blending his classical training with studio experimentation, often playing all the instruments himself. Concert review: Shuggie Otis at Lincoln Hall 2013-04-18T06:16:00Z

By this point in the program, the divisions among the battling teams — the blues, the greens, the reds — were starting to erode. Review: ‘Battleground,’ a Dance Battle Punctuated by a Rainbow of Limbs 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Brightly colored shrimp boats chugged past, the pinks and blues of the fading sunset veiling the trawlers’ badly chipped paint. An Eco-Tour of Guatemala’s Rio Dulce Region 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Aside from Becker’s family, local Marine cadets also attended the party in their dress blues to honor Becker and his military service. WWII veteran celebrates 100th birthday with a dance: 'I just couldn’t sit still' 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

“What people don’t always realize when they are listening to August Wilson is that they are listening to the blues,” Shay said. Backstage: Michele Shay takes up familiar ‘Seven Guitars’

The arrangements by her brilliant pianist, Yasuhiko Fukuoka, found a seamless blend of folk, classical, blues and vaudeville styles. Review: Stacy Sullivan Performs an Act of Remembrance 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

They have released archival blues from Black laborers in Florida and the Depression-era hillbilly laments of Blind Alfred Reed, a fiddler who sang of hard times in West Virginia. How to Handle the Hate in America’s Musical Heritage 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

This served Still’s avowed purpose — consistent with 1920s New Negro discourses of racial uplift — of demonstrating how the blues “could be elevated to the highest musical level.” Lifting the Cone of Silence From Black Composers 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Weekend Guide: Escape to Mazatlán This tropical getaway offers a cure for the wintertime blues. Coast to Coast Beaches 2011-06-15T13:50:02.553Z

As you enter the cavernous cathedral, the giant textile welcomes you, soaring to the ceiling with its gorgeously woven pinky reds and deep blues. Tapestry in Seattle cathedral weaves history and mission 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

But even if you don't let anyone hear your blues creation, it turns out that ranting along to music is both enjoyably silly and strangely cathartic. Click to download: Best of Bootie 2010, Kid Sister, Fenech Soler 2011-01-20T22:30:00Z

Rather than write a song in her familiar country-pop mode, she’s written an electric blues, its pealing guitar licks a hilarious and pointed reminder of Mr. Mayer, who’s a master of the style. Arts & Leisure Preview: Taylor Swift Is Angry, Darn It 2010-10-20T22:06:00Z

His off-the-cuff elaborations were pithy, infused with blues feeling, and he made them seem necessary. Music Review | Houston Person: Cruising or Fired Up, an Unchanging Language 2010-03-05T22:08:00Z

All were labeled green but would be considered advanced blues at other resorts. You Don’t Go to Sun Valley to Party 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

“My whole thing is representing a point of view that sometimes doesn’t get represented,” said Giddens, who has spent nearly a decade with the Chocolate Drops highlighting often-obscure African American folk, blues and pop songs. Rhiannon Giddens steps out with 'Tomorrow Is My Turn' 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Vaughan’s backing band Double Trouble has backed Albert Cummings, a Massachusetts blues guitarist who plays Amp on Sunday. What the blues sound like, all over the map 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

As it evolved, the festival made room for pop, rhythm and blues, rock and hip-hop. All that jazz 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Beyond it stood a rare sculpture: “Blues Queens,” a pillar of shimmering portraits of female blues singers. The World Catches Up With Dindga McCannon 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

As a matter of obligation, not ego, Buddy Guy thinks of himself as the last bluesman—or, at least, the last master of the electrified Chicago blues. A Buddy Guy Soundtrack 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Clark’s at his best when he digs into blues, saturating his solos with psychedelic textures and toxic levels of feedback, as on the doom-ridden “When My Train Pulls In” and the slow-burn “Bright Lights.” Album review: Gary Clark Jr., 'Blak and Blu' 2012-10-22T17:36:00Z

The Stones tucked lifelong blues scholarship behind the kick and yowl of the music. The Rolling Stones Paint It Blue on Their New Album 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Rock’s current establishment is more conscious than any other of music’s underrecognized forebears — namely of unsung blues and R&B artists. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

“I was really more suited to play the kind of music that came before the blues.” John C. Reilly’s Group in Lincoln Center Songbook Series 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

And we see how their talent, and the forces of African-American blues and white gospel, contributed to the earthy, infectious rockabilly spirit of early rock 'n' roll Phillips captured on influential recordings that still delight. 'Million Dollar Quartet' brings rock icons to life 2012-05-16T20:22:04Z

A passionate cultural activist, both on page and platform, Cortez transformed elements of her personal history and that of the African diaspora into cutting-edge blues . Jayne Cortez 2013-01-04T14:55:35Z

His style had evolved, in line with modernists like Lennie Tristano and Thelonious Monk, but he still had a trace of the South in his earthy attack, and in his untroubled relationship with blues inflection. Mose Allison, a Font of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

I saw them play with Muddy Waters once in his blues club in Chicago. Watching the Stones Roll 2012-07-11T07:16:18Z

The guitar that quickly follows suggests an optimistic read on the blues. Rod Wave Sings Through the Pain 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Missing were blues bands and ethnic music, they said. Bumbershoot shines without the big stars this year 2011-09-06T02:01:24Z

He’s the last man standing in blues in many ways. Joe Louis Walker, the blues and beyond 2012-06-06T21:49:00Z

The city's spring music festival has become a potpourri of American genres, including pop, blues, jazz, funk, country, rock, gospel, zydeco and salsa. ArtsBeat: This Year's Jazz and Heritage Festival Leans Heavily on Pop 2013-01-17T22:00:42Z

From the vantage point of Tedeschi Trucks, blues morphs into soul, soul shapeshifts into rock, and rock deconstructs into a dynamic form of jazz improvisation. The inspiring poetics of Tedeschi Trucks Band 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

That organization, under the direction of Mr. Marsalis, has always regarded Mr. Murray’s blues philosophy as a bedrock. The Blues? Overcoming Hard Times Through Swinging Elegance 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dobson’s book proposes that many dictators today may be feeling a similar sort of blues. Books Of the Times: ‘The Dictator’s Learning Curve,’ by William J. Dobson 2012-06-10T20:56:47Z

And the colors that animate these images aren’t drawn from the orderly, soothing palette of high design, but from a riot of bright blues, yellows, purples and greens. Review | Judy Chicago doesn’t have time for games. The planet is dying, and so are we. 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Often obscure selections by marginal writers, they are saturated in feelings that transcend the common or garden, she-dun-left-me blues. Rumer: Boys Don't Cry – review 2012-05-26T23:10:01Z

Today, our blues are created by chemists in labs. It’s Not Every Day We Get a New Blue 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

If you want to try relaxing bedtime music for yourself, you’ll find that plenty of the most relaxing classical/ jazz/blues albums are readily available and, of course, you can easily make your own playlists. Can music help us fall asleep? 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

I was told there would be a film about the British blues in the series, and I urged them to include Bad Penny Blues. Letter: Johnny Parker obituary 2010-06-24T18:01:00Z

One of his sons worked with him as a valet, and a daughter, Shirley King, is a blues singer in Chicago. B.B. King, Mississippi master of the blues, dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

I used to do a lot of blues, and rhythm and blues, and ’50s rock-and-roll and country, and all kinds of stuff. What’s new, Tom Jones? The hitmaker is still finding more things to sing about. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The local blues, funk and gospel vet began using the name while singing karaoke in the 1980s. Seattle’s Anita ‘Lady A’ White files lawsuit to block country stars’ use of name 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

He adapted the texts for the five songs from hymns, Romantic lieder and blues songs, woven through with dulcimer, banjo, strings, winds, percussion and electronics. James Baker Leads the Talea Ensemble at Roulette 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Ten Years After released ten albums together featuring the group’s mix of blues, swing jazz and rock and toured the U.S. Rock Guitarist Alvin Lee, 68, Dies 2013-03-07T06:06:58Z

In his new book of portraits, artist William Stout renders the blues in just about every color. ‘Legends of the Blues’: new portraits of the blues masters 2013-07-03T21:14:22Z

It rose during “Viola Lee Blues,” the band’s early cover of a classic blues song. Grateful Dead in Santa Clara, Night 1: Rainbows, dancing bears and bliss 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Why we like him: Shot in the cabins, dusty roads and swamps of the Mississippi Delta, his elegiac film installation Crossroads from 2009 sees Blandy pursue the myths surrounding blues legend Robert Johnson. Artist of the week 107: David Blandy 2010-09-29T15:01:00Z

The program extends beyond country, with the venerable blues guitarist Buddy Guy performing, along with the genre-straddling blues and R&B singer Fantastic Negrito and the Southern rock singer Jason Isbell and others. What’s on TV Thursday: The 2018 Americanafest and ‘There’s Something About Mary’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

The warmly engaging Copeland spoke of growing up loving the blues while her peers were deep into hip-hop. Soaking up sun & soul at Chateau Ste. Michelle bluesfest 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

At one point, I thought that maybe, lyrically, the blues was unfit to sing around kids. Young bluesmen take up the torch for a musical tradition

As a guitarist he often cited the country musician Merle Travis as an early model, as well as the blues players T-Bone Walker and, later, Robert Ward. Lonnie Mack, Singer and Guitarist Who Pioneered Blues-Rock, Dies at 74 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Weill set Brecht's mordantly ironic lyrics to brilliantly simple melodies with blues, jazz and tango inflections, in a score molded for actors rather than trained singers. Get ready for a Mack attack, Seattle: Here comes 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-12T01:12:03Z

Handy Award for comeback blues album of the year, a pioneer award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and a Blues Music Award for best female contemporary blues artist and gotten two Grammy nominations. Bettye LaVette comes roaring back 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Clinch will often join the bands onstage with his harmonica, holding down a recent blues duet with the local Seaside band Johnny Nameless. A Perfect Weekend in Asbury Park, N.J. 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

Pre-rock musical genres like the blues and jazz had similar fights to earn academic credibility, and in some ways are still fighting them. Bob Dylan, a laureate sure, but by what measure a poet 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

And as with the wealth of blues and folk bands that surrounded the Beatles in 1960s England, other London dramatists did some things better, or more emphatically, than Shakespeare. Shakespeare died 401 years ago, but original scripts from his era live on in a new digital archive 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

Rhythm and blues lured her away from the church, and she found herself drawn to the grittiness of the music. Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in Calif. 2012-01-20T16:40:14Z

"There's a broad influence of sounds on the record," reckons Woolhouse, "but probably at the heart of every song there is a little old blues singer with a guitar." Deptford Goth: defo not a goth, and graduating beyond the bedroom 2013-03-15T14:00:00Z

Her venture into the blues is a testament to her timelessness, said Tennyson's friend, Donna Duplantis, also of New Orleans. Cyndi Lauper singing the blues at NO's Jazz Fest 2011-05-06T13:01:05Z

Wein would later bring in Led Zeppelin, Sly and the Family Stone and James Brown and other rock and rhythm and blues acts. George Wein, Newport Jazz Festival co-founder, dies at 95 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

His urbane and sardonic poems were increasingly filled with sex and philosophy and blues songs and late-night conversation and time spent at the dinner table. Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

Fellow musician Pete Stampfel recalls: “He was doing all traditional songs, but it was his approach! His singing style and phrasing were stone rhythm & blues.” Review | ‘The Double Life of Bob Dylan’ is the definitive account of a shape-shifting genius’s early years 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

The veteran country blues singer Furry Lewis briefly assumes the center of attention as an honored guest. Leon Russell, From Rising to Resurgent 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Regardless of his politics, Atwater, who grew up in South Carolina, was an unabashed fan of blues and soul music who always kept his guitar close. Long-Lost Video of R&B Stars at 1989 Inaugural Is to Air 2014-02-28T23:26:48Z

The label also records current artists, like the Canadian rockabilly performer Bloodshot Bill and the blues rockers Daddy Long Legs. Billy Miller, Curator and Historian of Fringe Music, Dies at 62 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

“It’s one’s worst nightmare, full of frightful loud colours, peacock blues, and impossible oranges all higgledy-piggledy while one’s mask floods,” he writes. Patrick Melrose and the Fall of the English Élite 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The beat and music elevate one’s mood through dancing, allows the music into one’s soul, and expresses joy, without leaving behind the roots and struggle of blues music. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

It’s a lover’s lament carried by a whirlwind through blues, jazz and rock. Gregg Allman: A Voice of the South Who Mixed a Musical Melting Pot 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

There’s something cruel about connecting to the life of a blues singer most fully when she’s down on her luck and sitting naked before a mirror, despondent about certain outcomes. HBO’s ‘Bessie’: A stirring — and stuffed — account of the life of a legend 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

His style suggests a folklike vernacular that finds purchase in country, Protestant hymns, jazz and blues. Critic’s Notebook: California Dreaming Adds Sweep to Bill Frisell’s ‘Big Sur’ 2013-06-23T21:08:56Z

The next morning he was dressed in the dull blues of corporate camouflage, but onstage he spoke with fire about the civil rights protests of the ’60s. Al Gore is near the end of his quest to save the Earth. Nina Barrett just got started. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

She paused and continued: “Throughout his life he loved bright colors — blues, greens, reds, yellows. He discussed different colors in ‘Painting as a Pastime.’” Churchill’s Aura, and Bright Colors, Draw New Fans to His Art 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Charged with blues spirit, Redd and Sanders played long solos that showed occasional bursts of energy but were more concerned with reinforcing the easy sway of the song’s rhythm. Review | Jazz vibraphonist and drummer Chuck Redd shows a hometown audience his enduring range 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

Known as “the mother of the blues,” Ma appreciates her status as a moneymaker for the white businessmen who sell “race records.” The Anger on London’s Stages Is Palpable, and Thrilling 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

He describes Quezergue as a superb musician and band leader who raised the bar in rhythm and blues and rock `n' roll, and who always inspired people to their best performances. 'Creole Beethoven' composer, arranger dead at 81 2011-09-07T18:44:08Z

It’s then that a deco drop flies up to reveal the back wall of the theater, as if what Waller swung and sang the blues about were happening now. Review: ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’,’ Saving Its Love (and Pain) for You 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gurung's electric pinks and blues, used for prints and front panels of coats, looked especially fresh. On the Runway Blog: Prefall Fashion in Perpetual Motion 2012-12-14T16:57:21Z

With Ms. Miller playing a fast, rolling groove, Ms. Staaf capers and collides through the song’s blues form, paying homage to Williams’s starkly articulate right hand and peripatetic left. The Playlist: Unreleased Chris Cornell, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

While King and other blues artists were increasingly performing for young white listeners, Bland preferred to tour the southern circuit and play to his core audience: African American, mature, predominantly female. Bobby 'Blue' Bland dies at 83 2013-06-24T17:00:00Z

But from blues to country to rock, the most famous guitar might be B.B. The Story Behind B.B. King's Famous Guitar 'Lucille' 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The influence of blues artists — especially Black American blues artists — looms large over the Stones’ entire discography. The Rolling Stones Played Old! They Played New! 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z

Take the Celtic-ish blues of “Remedy” or “Tomorrow Never Comes,” a lightly gothic electronic-music-inflected bluegrass song, and one of the album’s most exciting. Review: Zac Brown Band’s ‘Jekyll + Hyde’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

She boasts a husky tone and a pensive touch on the cello, favoring wide arcs of melody that often allude to the blues. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Fight your back-to-school blues with some of this week’s educational deals. Weekend Miser: Educational Deals this Weekend 2010-09-02T21:06:00Z

On this EP, its title redolent of some backwoods utopia, he channels the country blues and old spirituals, but also something a little bit funkier, and sometimes something a little bit more MOR. Hiss Golden Messenger: From Country Hai East Cotton ? review 2011-03-17T23:00:00Z

That one note darkens the tone from ecstasy to assonance, from the choir to the blues. A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 2012-01-20T22:06:06Z

“My first inspiration was the blues, but I realized I couldn’t write about freight trains and chain gangs,” he said in a 2013 interview with the London-based music magazine Uncut. Wilko Johnson, Scorching Guitarist and Punk Pioneer, Dies at 75 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Ali Farka Touré had a unique style of guitar playing which was quite reminiscent of the blues from the deep south of America. Mali's magical music 2013-01-18T07:00:00Z

"My mother listened to blues records when I was a small child," Hill remembers. ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z

Inside the ancient gated medina nearly every building is painted an arresting shade of cerulean or azure, the sky blues juxtaposed with white trim and terra-cotta rooftops. A Stroll by the Casbah in Northern Morocco 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Mr. Coleman, who turned 80 last month, is an insider, and showed it in three tunes with his quintet that were full of generous blues and concise bebop phrases. N.E.A. Jazz Masters Hail From Inside and Outside the Club 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

FRI Music dance with the Valse Cafe Orchestra, waltz, swing, blues, tango and Latin, cabaret with vocals, dance and more; mask required, 8:30 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-01-24T01:18:50Z

Hindmarch used suede, vegetable tanned leathers and long-haired shearling for her creations, which came in pinks, blues, mustard yellow, browns and grey. Winter mountain wonderland for Anya Hindmarch at London fashion week 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

At the time, he says white audiences didn’t have an appetite for the blues, with a few turning up at shows every “once in a while.” Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy looks back on a special career 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

On their new album, Godspeed address those "current blues" directly. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'You make music for the king and his court, or for the serfs outside the walls' 2012-10-11T09:18:00Z

Polar Bear Map of Chicago blues bars All today's stories Last 24 hours 1. Salzburg Easter festival hopes harmony will be restored after ?1.8m corruption scandal 2010-03-26T18:52:00Z

Sure, “The Kid” — as Jones was nicknamed as a youngster playing the old Highway 99 Blues Club — can still melt faces with incendiary solos forged on the Northwest blues circuit. Seattle rocker Ayron Jones is having his national breakout in the strangest of times 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

He hopes to move to Chicago to pursue his dream of becoming a blues musician. Review: ‘Ironbound’ Stars Marin Ireland as a Struggling Immigrant 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Signature house skirt suits and wrapped-up woolen styles came in muted tones of pinks, burgundies, blues and purples. Chanel caps Paris Fashion Week with swaths of iconic tweeds 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

Visual equivalents of the blues, his paintings may resemble those by an Outsider, but they also call to mind Alice Neel, Robert Colescott and Bob Thompson, among others. Art Review: Henry Taylor?s Portraits and Other Paintings at MoMA PS1 2012-02-02T23:19:39Z

Mr. Cocker grew up in the industrial north of England but was always drawn to the blues and soul music of the American South. Joe Cocker, singer known for his raspy voice and unbridled performances, dies at 70 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

But like the Carolina Chocolate Drops with the blues, Russell is a delightful addition to the party. Sir Paul McCartney drops a lovely valentine 2012-02-11T22:31:04Z

Gasps and murmurs arise from the audience as each set is revealed in turn: rich blues and violets representing Bluebeard's realm, for instance, or vivid gold stalks depicting his treasury. A glistening 'Bluebeard's Castle' at Seattle Symphony 2012-05-16T16:45:06Z

Yes, straight-up blues is less than 1 percent of the U.S. market. Bruce Iglauer interview: 40 years of Alligator Records 2011-02-17T04:56:44Z

Her compositions cram together a lot of ideas about misdirection, balance, blues comfort, melody and memory. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

A few blues in red states ultimately find they cannot exist comfortably as lone outposts of liberalism and choose to leave. Blue in a red state: Learning to confront, conform to or otherwise navigate your neighbors’ right-wing reality 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

As the guitarist Joe Louis Walker put it, “It’s an honor for the blues to go all the way from the outhouse to the White House, no matter who the president is.” Long-Lost Video of R&B Stars at 1989 Inaugural Is to Air 2014-02-28T23:26:48Z

Live Nation Entertainment announced Tuesday that guitar hero Jeff Beck, part of the '60s blues revival in England, will play the Moore Theatre on Oct. Jeff Beck to play Moore Theatre 2011-09-06T20:43:04Z

The CBE will not just stimulate interest in the blues, but it will “become a gateway attraction for the city itself,” Wang says. Two planned museums brighten the future of the blues 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

He also played lead on “Back Door Man,” “Spoonful” and “The Red Rooster,” all written and arranged by the Chicago blues trailblazer Willie Dixon.  ArtsBeat Blog: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to Pay for Hubert Sumlin's Funeral 2011-12-09T00:43:22Z

The Mississippi native established himself in Chicago's thriving blues community in the 1960s, but more recently lived in Lincoln, Neb. Blues guitarist Magic Slim dies in Pa. at age 75 2013-02-22T00:10:16Z

He also made instructional videos about ukulele, bottleneck blues, Caribbean rhythms and Hawaiian guitar. Bob Brozman, Guitarist, Is Dead at 59 2013-05-02T00:36:58Z

She suggests a palette of blues and neutrals to keep with the homeowner’s preference for cool tones. How to design a narrow living room around an inherited piano - The Washington Post 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

In an interview with the Chicago Tribune in 1992, Mr. Brooks said the Chicago blues style did not come naturally to him at first. Lonnie Brooks, guitarist who made his name in Chicago blues, dies at 83 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

But the group's genre-swinging versatility -- everything from rap and lounge to blues and soul  -- and exuberance carried the day. SXSW 2012: It's a wrap 2012-03-18T19:19:00Z

Coltrane himself, after going all the way to the fastest, most intellectual harmonic jazz, in 1959, with “Giant Steps,” backed off relentless changing harmony to seek more space and blues. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

He introduced it this way, “Seeing as I am a colored gentleman, I must play some blues.” Music Review: Frank Fairfield and Blind Boy Paxton at Jalopy 2010-07-21T22:41:00Z

Mr. Wiangthong alternates opening slots with Boy Blues Band, fronted by a Woranan instructor steeped in Chicago blues, whose growling baritone is the perfect foil for his stinging guitar. Heads Up: In Chiang Mai, Thailand, New Sounds in the Clubs 2010-07-16T19:48:00Z

Prewar American blues performers often thought of the river as a metaphysical gateway—a vein separating here from something beyond. Lost in America with Hiss Golden Messenger 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

The problem is simple: many of the songs start with sturdy loping riffs influenced by Malian desert blues, but the laid-back, deadpan vocals by all three Dirtmusicians manage to sap the energy from the music. Dirtmusic: BKO 2010-04-15T22:30:00Z

The blues came early into the lives of both Hill and Gibbons, in Dallas and Houston respectively. ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z

Since then, he has played with international stars including Geri Allen, Cassandra Wilson and the late George Russell, Art Blakey and Elvin Jones, and explored original music embracing blues, Motown, reggae, soul and much more. Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – March 2013-03-19T15:42:59Z

They breeze through 30 songs that span rockabilly, funk, blues, soul and psychedelic. Review: The Rascals find a fountain of youth 2013-04-17T00:31:13Z

There were echoes of blues drone, avant-garde classical music, free jazz, early rock ‘n’ roll, field recordings and the rantings of street-corner oracles. Captain Beefheart, dead at 69: Music as an action painting 2010-12-19T12:42:58Z

There are other primary characters in “Southern Cross the Dog,” notably Eli Cutter, a blues pianist who has been in prison for manslaughter. Books of The Times: ‘Southern Cross the Dog,’ a Novel by Bill Cheng 2013-05-21T21:36:57Z

Harper, self-taught, played along with the records and in school marching bands, and soon began sitting in with blues bands around town. At 80, Billy Harper’s Rhapsodic Saxophone Is Still a Towering Force 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

A brilliant 25-minute show of reds, whites and blues lit up the sky from three barges on the East River, sandwiched between Brooklyn and lower Manhattan - and even some from the Brooklyn Bridge itself. Fireworks, hot dogs, hurricane help mark July 4th 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

The Music Maker Revue offered a regional style closer to home: Southern blues and funk. Globalfest Showcases the Sounds and Traditions of World Music 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

The first time that Buddy Guy, quite possibly the greatest living blues guitarist, heard Stevie Ray Vaughan play, he couldn’t believe it. Stevie Ray Vaughan Remembered by Those Who Knew Him Best 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

The object is to teach children the history, the sound and the function of the blues. Spare Times for Children for July 24-30 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Weir deals with the fallout by hitting the road with his band, RatDog, and sticks to blues tunes instead of Dead songs. Review | How the Grateful Dead survived Jerry Garcia’s death 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

There were blues purists that wanted us to stay with the covey — to be purists too. Texas Monthly: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’s ‘Texas Flood’ Is Rereleased 2013-01-26T23:15:09Z

It moves sure-footedly through styles from the rooted to the futuristic; it touches down in gospel, blues, soul and country with all the programming expertise of the 21st century. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Katz-Bohen played a guitar riff that sounded like a car crash crossed with a blues lick. Uptown Rapture: Debbie Harry at the Carlyle 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

In his score, Blanchard deftly blends elements of jazz, blues, hints of big band and gospel into a compositional voice dominated by lushly chromatic and modal harmonic writing, spiked with jagged rhythms and tart dissonance. Review: ‘Fire’ Brings a Black Composer to the Met, Finally 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

In the basement, bands like Belmondo play a mixture of rock ’n’ roll, jazz and blues, while fans sit on beanbags, smoking cigarettes and singing along. | Surfacing: Surfacing: In Budapest, a Neighborhood Once Avoided Is Becoming a Draw 2010-04-15T22:44:00Z

Her palette is equally expansive, running from the gentle blues and pale oranges of clear-sky sunrises to the blazing yellows, pinks and greens of neon signs. The feeling of twilight? Wanda Koop paintings try to capture the moment 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z

Celebrated for its authenticity and focus on Mississippi’s musical heritage, the event features entertainment by local and nationally known blues and gospel artists. It’s festival, fair season in Mississippi 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

The effervescent Emeli Sandé is a rare talent, but needs to stop milking her ubiquitous debut album, while Paul Weller delivered powerpop, cosmic blues and psychedelic soul shot through with serrated intensity. Isle of Wight festival – review 2013-06-17T12:24:42Z

Like during “Early Roman Kings” when Dylan and his five-man band conjured a roadhouse blues that plodded like a death march. Bob Dylan in concert at Constitution Hall: Vexing, enchanting, punishing

With blue fields layered with levitating blocks, or intersecting beams of contrasting blues and sometimes greens or purples, these immersive paintings evoked geometric versions of Monet’s “Water Lilies.” The Best Art of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

This performance represents to me the sound of “Exile” in idealized form: a dark, dense, loosely played, semiconscious tour through American blues, gospel and country music, recorded in a basement in France. Music: Revisiting ?Main St.,? Rethinking the Myth 2010-05-20T03:39:00Z

Comics are as cool and American as jazz, the blues and hard-boiled private eyes, though for decades they were often sneered at as maybe a quarter-step above trash. ArtsBeat: Sunday Morning Mayhem 2013-12-27T16:22:46Z

The man ends up persuading Kyle to fetch him drinks and shine his shoes on his hands and knees, telling him that he won't understand the blues until he completes every task without questioning it. "Party Down": The best comedy you haven't heard of 2010-04-17T22:59:00Z

He's also serving as a musical ambassador through upcoming appearances with Western artists such as Bill Frisell and various blues musicians at the centennial celebration of Howling Wolf at Chicago's Millennium Stage in June. Seattle's Sub Pop takes on the world with new Next Ambiance imprint 2010-03-15T23:54:00Z

This countryside, the lake and its islands, this composition of greens and grays and blues, was fused within him. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere though, there is a notable and welcome return of the blues and R. & B. influences that were more prevalent during the band’s first decade. The Brothers Who Built AC/DC 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

Expect more lounge-y piano that can slur into blues and jazz without losing the crisp, sparkly lyrics and catchy melodies. Rock, pop and soul in the grass at Mountain Music Fest 2010-08-13T01:01:00Z

She paused and mimicked a bit of its call — a lilting slide between two notes, like a muffled trumpet playing the blues — and giggled. After 43 Years, Mossy Kilcher’s Folk Songs for Alaska Get a Second Life 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

What is it to trade those designer duds for prison blues? Patrick J. Adams Is Happy to Take the Suits Out of ‘Suits’ 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

“I thought those three words — bruise, blues, blood — went together like they were a small band.” How Glenn Ligon Is Using Black and Blue to Begin a Dialogue 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Ellison says that the blues is “personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.” How Glenn Ligon Is Using Black and Blue to Begin a Dialogue 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

This fact hasn’t escaped Celeste’s notice, either: “The origins of blues are work songs — literally Black people working on plantations as slaves,” she told The Guardian. Celeste, a Young Singer With an Old Soul, Makes Her Move 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Thompson was tall and commanding, with steady blues eyes that his daughter believes helped him win the role in “Cease Fire.” Roy Thompson Jr., Real-Life and Movie Hero, Dies at 85 2014-05-07T02:35:40Z

He remembers, at 20, backing the blues icon in Chicago and being impressed with himself. Steve Miller cracked the code of 1970s radio. But he’s still raging against the music industry. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

"Whole Lotta Love" started as a spare blues number, rumbled into the rock song that defined the 1970s, turned into a Celtic jig, went to Africa, then back to a blues tune. Robert Plant shifts shape in Palladium concert 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Out of the blues of the 1930s and '40s came “Rhythm and Blues” which paved the way for future rock and roll. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

After kicking his heroin habit temporarily for the first time, he soon emerged with a 10-minute, driving blues number that he reportedly jotted down on toilet paper during the session. Lee Morgan’s ‘Live at the Lighthouse’ was a masterpiece that turned out to be a farewell 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

‘Born Under a Bad Sign’ by Albert King is not straight blues; it has Booker T and the MGs on it. Joe Louis Walker, the blues and beyond 2012-06-06T21:49:00Z

But there is far more to Bluff City than blues and barbecue. What to Do in Memphis 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

The palette featured a lot of blues, green, red, some white and flashes of yellow along with mainstay black. Large coats a mainstay for next winter from Milan 2013-02-21T22:50:18Z

But Perkins learned about blues in the best — and the toughest — way possible: Immersed in the culture that produced it. Blues musician "Pinetop" Perkins dies at 97 2011-03-22T00:39:00Z

Clark hasn’t tried to dwell in any purist blues past. Gary Clark Jr. Finds a 21st-Century Blues Spirit on ‘This Land’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

The 89-year-old Watson is a singer of bluegrass, country, blues and gospel who is famous for his flatpicking style on the guitar and his interpretations of folk songs from bygone eras. Singer Doc Watson in critical condition, hospital says 2012-05-25T04:01:16Z

Few could have predicted that Steve Wold's hard-won blues would have lasted longer than a festival season, but all the new songs he plays are intriguing. Meltdown 2010: An Evening of Political Song; the Duckworth Lewis Method; Seasick Steve 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

"I remember people out in front of the stage in the mud, just rolling around," said Seattle blues singer Alice Stuart, who played Sky River but was unable to commit to Friday's reunion. 1968's Sky River Rock Festival revisited Friday 2011-08-12T04:42:04Z

The blues and spirituals that make up the core of “Porgy and Bess,” written by a white Jewish composer and originating in the African-American community, is music we all embrace. Op-Ed Columnist: In ?Porgy and Bess,? Variations on an Explosive Theme 2012-01-22T04:49:04Z

Lead Belly Fest, a tribute concert to the folk and blues musician Lead Belly, is heading to Carnegie Hall on Feb. 4 after a sold-out performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Lead Belly Tribute Concert Coming to Carnegie Hall in February 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Though they touch on Korean traditions, they also reflect the hypnotic sound cycles of Steve Reich or Portico Quartet, the edginess of improv, the romance of Tchaikovsky, and even the earthy tonalities of the blues. These New Puritans, Jagwar Ma, The Babies: this week's new live music 2013-06-15T05:00:21Z

The score takes listeners on a journey through Black musical styles, including spirituals, jazz, blues and gospel. Let’s Make the Future That the ‘New World’ Symphony Predicted 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

He learned British folk songs and sang them in an amiable tenor, and he was drawn to ragtime and the blues, particularly the fingerpicking complexity of early rural blues. John Renbourn, Eclectic Guitarist Who Founded the Pentangle, Dies at 70 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Harmonica, organ and piano join in on another rocker, the boastful romp “Three Women” - the album’s only track White didn’t write alone; he shares credit with late blues guitarist Blind Willie McTell. Review: Jack White goes country on second solo CD 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

“The sound of his playing has such depth and authority that you couldn’t mistake it for anyone else in contemporary blues.” Bobby Rush Lived the Blues. Six Decades On, He’s Still Playing Them. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

Together, in the Brokeoffs, they play a lot of blues and country and rural Southern music. Playlist : At Midcareer, Some Astonish, Some Explore 2011-04-29T18:39:43Z

Dylan's grim Everything Is Broken, from her highly praised new album Thankful N' Thoughtful, becomes a defiant funk up-yours; a haunted blues version of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy is freaky and confrontational. Bettye LaVette - review 2012-12-12T18:00:33Z

The lineup is a dream for lovers of blues and blues-rock, with its emotional, spiraling guitar solos. ArtsBeat: Eric Clapton to Bring Guitar Festival to Madison Square Garden 2012-11-19T18:08:31Z

At what was reportedly his first New York appearance since 1972, he unleashed heavily fuzzed blues lines and precise but frenetic scrubbing chords, bristling and untamed. Music Review: Mitch Ryder, Death and Gories Come to Lincoln Center 2010-08-01T22:30:00Z

"It's a canon rather like the blues or Christmas carols with just a few main ingredients," he added. Record numbers flock to Puglia festival to dance to Italy's dervish beat 2011-08-27T23:07:14Z

Though he never learned to write music or play an instrument, he cited the music of the pioneering blues guitarist T-Bone Walker as an early influence. Bobby (Blue) Bland, Soul and Blues Balladeer, Dies at 83 2013-06-24T06:30:33Z

A self-portrait in marbly blues and purples that would fit in well at the Burning Man festival. Hunter Biden: Emotionally Honest, Generically Smooth 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

Generously completing the experience was the patio view facing east to the greens and blues of the vast National Elk Refuge and the Gros Ventre Range. A family shares the grandeur of Wyoming 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

And then with the '80s, we stayed with the pastels and the lighter pinks and lighter blues. "Totally Killer" costumer on Molly Ringwald vibes and making '80s ensembles worthy of being stabbed 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z

It is certainly a long way from Grinderman, the raw and feral mutant blues side-project that has occupied much of Cave's time and attention in recent years. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – review 2013-02-11T12:19:50Z

Already presented in blues and folk versions, Rucker changed it yet again to fit his silky baritone and traditional country and classic-rock influences. Darius Rucker rides ‘Wagon Wheel’ to top of charts 2013-05-24T19:43:37Z

Other traditions are represented, too: Two Eastern European tracks are welcome additions to the mix, jarring in the most evocative way amid all the country and blues. Review: A look at overlooked albums of 2012 2013-01-03T17:46:53Z

Photograph: Hayley Madden/Redferns By pulling together folk, jazz and blues into evocative, melodic albums, Pentangle were ahead of the curve in the late 1960s. Pentangle ? review 2011-08-03T17:26:04Z

When American blues musicians start touring the U.K., the joy felt by wide-eyed young Eric Claptons and Jimmy Pages is contagious. Review | Was Led Zeppelin the best or the worst of rock-and-roll? A new book will help you decide. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

Ryan Gosling plays Jacob, the ultimate ladies' man, who can get women into bed faster than it takes him to flash that winning smile and sparkling baby blues. Ryan Gosling remembers trying to impress 1st crush 2011-07-17T22:31:04Z

The side of the face was a medley of coral pink, magenta pink, blues, lavender and white. At 37 feet tall, Jeff Koons’s flower-draped ‘Split-Rocker’ demands a whole lotta love 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

The program will include an excerpt from “This Land Is Our Land: The Power of American Song,” a repertory including signature music like bluegrass, blues and spirituals. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

He calls it his favorite album "in a long time," and thinks it shows the kind of range he finds satisfying, from straight-up country to R&B-flavored songs and deep blues. Adkins forges on, to release new album in August 2011-06-15T10:19:08Z

Ironically, maybe that's why Black Dub's murky mish-mash of soul, blues, reggae and rock never quite takes off as expected – it's not so much directionless as it is going in too many directions at once. Daniel Lanois' Black Dub takes off in many directions 2011-06-11T14:28:00Z

Mostly he mixes his cool blues with his warm oranges, creating a clashing symphony that is animated without being agitated, at once serene and stimulating. Lee Mullican's colors crackle with energy 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Jagger and Richards both attended the same elementary school and met up again on the Dartford train platform in 1961, discovering they shared a love of the blues and later becoming two of Jones’ bandmates. Rolling Stones Bassist Is 'Disgusted' By Plaque Honoring Band 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Poignant and cautionary, this blues, gospel and funk-inflected work argues that if we want to avoid this future we’ll need diversity, strength and a song or two. Can Art Change the World? With Song, Dance and Cowboy Clichés Two Shows Offer Different Answers 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

The long, patient opening shot floats through battered, beautiful streets as a fado — the passionate music that is to this city what blues is to Memphis — plays underneath. | 'The Portuguese Nun': On the Streets of Lisbon, Love, Romance and Desire 2010-10-21T23:13:00Z

“And then we talked about the blues, our lives, his plays, and three cigarettes later, I think a pretty firm connection was made.” Stephen McKinley Henderson, an August Wilson Stalwart 2010-06-08T22:21:00Z

He taught himself to play guitar and piano, listened to old blues, folk songs, Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra, and wrote a lot of poetry as a steppingstone to songs. Joe Henry and the Art of Disappearing Into a Song 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

In popular legend, Johnson sold his soul to the Devil at a Mississippi Delta crossroads in return for an extraordinary ability to sing and play the blues. Pa. merchant finds rare Robert Johnson record 2012-11-17T01:31:03Z

So the indie crowd may be returning to New York and Los Angeles with a bit of the blues, but it doesn’t mean the art-house market isn’t healthy. Sundance Films Fall Short of Expectations 2012-01-27T16:19:50Z

But it wasn’t until ’21 or ’22, when Mamie Smith recorded ‘Crazy Blues,’ that blues became a ‘thing.’ A Long-Ago Interview with Dave Van Ronk About the Blues 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

The musical about blues singer Bessie Smith was performed at Ford’s Theater in Washington and later ran for more than a year on Broadway. Will Holt, folk singer who wrote ’60s hit ‘Lemon Tree,’ dies at 86 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

There never was a country or a blues song about having a faithful woman or getting a well-paid job. Ray Charles – I Can't Stop Loving You 2012-05-31T20:50:00Z

Released in 2016, "Blue and Lonesome" was a spectacular return to form, an homage to the blues that stirred their youthful souls way back when. The Rolling Stones' "Hackney Diamonds" is pure rock 'n' roll, capping an unparalleled career 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z

In my song “Goldfish Bowl,” it says, “Jazz, funk and blues, folk music with a beat, and a whole lot of soul.” Van Morrison Would Rather Play Jazz Than Talk About It 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Blending blues and country influences in his vocal and instrumental intonations, he was rock’s most persuasive black ambassador to the white kids who were just getting into that miscegenated musical form. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

“I heard a direct connection between what they were doing and the blues,” he said. ‘Aerosmith had never heard of Run-DMC’: The path to the groundbreaking hit ‘Walk This Way’ 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

For connoisseurs of American roots music, there is also country music from Ernest Tubb, bluegrass from Bill Monroe and a wide variety of guitar and piano blues, gospel and jug-band music. Library of Congress Gets a Mile of Music 2011-01-09T23:26:33Z

Charley Crockett Charley Crockett, a proud descendant of the American pioneer Davy Crockett, started off performing the blues on the streets of New Orleans and hitchhiked his way around the country with his guitar. The best live music sessions of 2018 from "Salon Stage" 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

“We knew that way off in some never-never land of rhythm and blues there was a place called the Apollo,” he went on. ArtsBeat: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Apollo Theater in New York 2012-03-10T09:43:47Z

He doesn’t say much, but he’s got a real case of the white-man blues. ‘Stillwater’ Review: Another American Tragedy 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

And it segued immediately into "Mystery Train," a shuffling blues that laments how the train "took my baby away from me again." Paul Simon takes graying fans on world tour 2011-04-25T05:21:26Z

Its brilliant white linens and Tiepolo blues make it seem as if the black-clad Washington has teleported into some Napoleonic-era palace, a grim, sober interloper from a humorless land of republican virtue. Perspective | The White House may be chaos, but our old presidents are looking dignified 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

As Jones's band set up a swinging blues and the lighting rig dyes the stained glass a sinful red, Jones invokes the Lord's help for "the poor and the needy". Tom Jones 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

Above, a sky of wide horizontal bands of blues and dark yellow suggests a tribute to the Color Field painter Kenneth Noland. A Final Rhapsody in Blue From Matthew Wong 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Then she let the algorithm direct her into the past, especially the blues masters Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters. Celeste, a Young Singer With an Old Soul, Makes Her Move 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

It’s a comedy show, too, if you like your comedy black and self-aware, like funk introspecting its blues and sounding with vehement joy. The Urgent, Giddily Imaginative Vision of “Random Acts of Flyness” 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

And colors that changed from the drab beige of a clothes moth to the fantastic peach, orange and teal blues of rare species? Special Report: Fashion: When Youth Is the Holy Grail 2011-02-21T18:27:40Z

“The blues isn’t just a sound,” she said. Adia Victoria Wants to Make the Blues Dangerous Again 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

They are rhythm and blues when I sing them, whatever they were before. A Word With: Bettye Lavette: Bettye LaVette, the R&B Singer, Reflects on Her Career 2012-09-29T01:34:02Z

The suite is searching and soaring, alive with deep blues, church testifying and vigorous rump-shakers as it charts the path that Baraka laid out. Amiri Baraka’s ‘Blues People’ Comes Home to the Apollo 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

It’s all washed in a barely there palette of pale blues, whites, and taupes. Modern Colonial Kitchen 2011-04-04T16:20:05.450Z

While Guy saw the blues rise from a personal passion to main influence of the biggest rock bands in history, he said his passion has not changed. Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy looks back on a special career 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

With the blessing of Mr. Randolph he brought a lot of archival material to the table: old blues and spirituals, the stuff of folk anthologies and public domain. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2010-06-27T21:17:00Z

Anyone who has ever heard a recreational blues band noodle through a set of covers has likely locked eyes with this void. The Discovery of Roscoe Holcomb and the “High Lonesome Sound” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

And that's why I like the blues, which is the only great art form to have come out of America – and it's really African. David Bailey: out of his skulls 2010-08-25T20:30:00Z

Throughout much of the evening, the stage, frequently lit in vivid purples, blues and pinks, looked airbrushed with bodies in which dancers slipped from solos and duets into group numbers and back again. Rennie Harris Puremovement and ‘A Batalha do Passinho’ 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Lead Belly also occupies his own place in blues culture. Robert Plant, Alison Krauss, Lucinda Williams on loving Lead Belly 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Martinez speak-sings at a pace that recalls the blues but with an affect that suggests perturbation or getting stunned or sweating, or all three. The Playlist: Ed Sheeran Returns With a Foot in the Past and an Eye on the Future 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Brozman demonstrated how a Skip James blues would sound with a Réunion beat before bringing all his guests together to swap different global themes. Bob Brozman obituary 2013-04-28T16:48:21Z

They served as the backup band for the blues legends Jimmy Reed and Freddie King and recorded two albums before dissolving in 1968. Texas Monthly: Finally, an Album for a Rock Star Who Never Was 2011-11-06T07:30:10Z

How to describe a band that blends hip-hop, rock, blues, horn-stoked jazz, atmospheric ballads and soul -- plus interpolations or samples drawn from Nirvana, Mobb Deep, Arcade Fire, Motown, the Pixies and James Brown? Kids These Days pull songs from the static 2012-11-16T16:04:00Z

The sets and costumes are awash in pastel pinks, blues and greens. ‘Zombies 3’ Review: Take Me to Your Cheerleader 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Mo’ sounds at home in all genres, but he excels here on the blues tracks, including “Santa Claus Blues,” “Merry, Merry Christmas” and “Santa Claus, Santa Claus.” Get in the holiday mood with Ne-Yo, Lea Michele and Chicago 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

It was quite surprising to hear that; an African guy playing blues. Mali's magical music 2013-01-18T07:00:00Z

He used huge patches of pinks, blues, oranges, yellows and greens. At Blind Whino, high spirits are the thing 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

The meat-and-potatoes repertory — some “I Got Rhythm” changes, some blues, the Cole Porter tune that lends the album its title — doesn’t pose a limitation for them. Review: ‘Night and Day,’ Vincent Herring’s New Album 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

For those who shop by model and style number instead of cut and fit, the sea of inoffensive blues and greens and browns and blacks may be reassuring. 2010-01-21T08:10:00Z

The reds, blues and whites go back to the palette of Maurice de Vlaminck during his Fauve years in a composition that is otherwise utterly different. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z

And the thing about the blues that people don't understand is the craziest thing about blues people is the fact that people understand the blues. Wendell Pierce on bringing a Black Willy Loman to life, making "Death of a Salesman" relevant today 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

The recording is now widely regarded as an early masterpiece of Chicago blues. Phil Chess, Whose Record Label Elevated Unknown Blues Musicians, Dies at 95 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hardesty’s tenor sax produced a big, meaty tone with blues and laughter in it. Herbert Hardesty, Fats Domino’s Saxophonist, Dies at 91 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

He made appearances in blues clubs alone or in a trio, often sporting a homburg, one foot stomping to the beat -- although never on Sundays. Blues musician "Pinetop" Perkins dies at 97 2011-03-21T23:51:00Z

Thus the blues exists on the margins of American cultural life, a quaint reminder of what once was, a sound with a colossal history, a diminished reality and a tenuous future. Can blues music survive the 21st Century? 2011-06-03T15:46:00Z

Albert Murray, the great 20th-century philosopher of the blues, put the matter more abstractly. ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Review: All the Blues That’s Fit to Sing 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Fahey and friends also found an aged and forgotten Skip James in a Mississippi hospital, which helped spark the decade’s blues revival. John Fahey made the best Christmas album ever 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

Artists like Gaye and Wonder literally laid the groundwork with their works that inhabited multiple genres like R&B, blues, boogie-woogie, and up-tempo jazz. The erasure of Black and female rockers is still apparently a problem 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z

Rock music, almost all of it, is rooted in the blues — sex and/or violence and/or alienation. “Low”: Bowie’s crowning moment 2012-06-16T15:00:00Z

At 15, he was playing with the blues singer Donny Hathaway and making up excuses when he could not attend a session because of school. Fred White, Drummer for Earth, Wind & Fire, Dies at 67 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

She was able to dig so deep in kind of such a raw and unguarded place when she sang, and that's the power of gospel and blues and rhythm and blues. James' passion, great range remembered 2012-01-21T02:16:04Z

Born in Greenwood, Miss., on Aug. 13, 1955, Mr. Miller grew up immersed in Delta blues and gospel music. Mulgrew Miller, Jazz Pianist, Dies at 57 2013-05-29T16:06:23Z

Baker Community Club Dance Event FRI Swing, blues for dancing with band and caller, 7:30 p.m. Community calendar 2012-02-22T23:13:04Z

In that setting, Burnett speak-sings his way through free-associative songs that contain biblical allusions, echoes of the blues, tall tales, lovers’ plaints and warnings about disinformation, the cult of personality and the encroachments of technology. T Bone Burnett Wants to Make Music to Heal Shrinking Attention Spans 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

And she let loose with more fantasy, dunking her chiffon gowns in pool blues and greens. Fashion Review: Couture Is Fun but Not for All 2012-07-06T17:45:23Z

It harks back to the Tulsa Sound, a mix of lighter blues, country, rock and jazz that hails from Tulsa, Oklahoma, the state where Cale was born. Eric Clapton pays musical tribute to long-time friend JJ Cale 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

He was a hit, and quickly became a popular disc jockey playing the blues on a Memphis radio station, WDIA. B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Consequently, the songs on "Revelation Road" range from soft and contemplative, as in the beautifully haunting country tune "The Thief," to tasty hard-edge old-school blues in "Heaven's Only Days Down the Road." Shelby Lynne's new disc all her own 2011-10-17T20:07:05Z

He took a properly gnarly slide solo on “Dockery Farm,” an otherwise clunky tune inspired by the blues.  Music Review: The Joel Harrison 19, a Big Band, at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2013-07-17T20:24:01Z

Their stories are inseparable from that of the blues itself, which the filmmakers illustrate with a wealth of clips and concert footage reaching back more than half a century. Review: Once Simply ‘Sidemen,’ Now They’re the Stars 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

If his tunes can sometimes feel like a species of their own, it’s because they so confidently allow you to feel the blues while hearing jazz and listening like you would to pop music. Charles Lloyd Revels in the Flow on a Stellar Live Album 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

During the mid-'90s Clyde’s beat stirred in me a feeling of something that had been deeply lacking from my life: soul and rhythm and blues music. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

"When you think of his blues, they made you smile." Blues musician "Pinetop" Perkins dies at 97 2011-03-22T00:39:00Z

“She could convey many emotions and different kinds of feelings through her vocals. That’s a really important part of blues singing,” Mahon says. Blues singer ‘Big Mama’ Thornton had a hit with ‘Hound Dog.’ Then Elvis came along. 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

He has also become a blues ambassador, hosting blues cruises, posing for guitar magazine covers and serving as a featured attraction during PBS pledge nights. The guitar nerd from Utica who has come to save the blues 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Daniel Minter’s paintings, in saturated tones of midnight blues and leaf browns and golds, bring it powerfully to life. Picture Book Biographies to Dazzle a Fact-Loving Child 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

But the instrumentalists’ understated style suited Cohen’s delivery, and their transglobal reach touched on East European gypsy flavors, flamenco, blues, gospel and the swing jazz of the opening “Dance Me to the End of Love.” Concert review: Leonard Cohen at Akoo Theatre 2012-11-24T07:58:00Z

Sticking to blues and greens, say, will make any outdoor space — no matter how small — look cohesive and purposeful. The ins and outs of outdoor decor 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

But she is a very polished entertainer who approaches the blues idiom with respect. Review: Cyndi Lauper proves she knows how to have fun with the blues 2010-09-03T18:49:00Z

Give me those singing blues and oranges, those swooning creams and cerises. Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin: the odd couple 2011-07-06T15:00:01Z

The Clap is to the blues as mayonnaise is to a gallon of warm mayonnaise. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z

Depending on the light, they're either shadowy and opaque or translucent and dappled with warm yellows, deep blues and fiery reds. Dustin Yellin adds his mark in L.A. with art that's a 'missile for social change' 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

The set includes ethereal electronics, booming breakbeats, dusty blues and a song with her daughter Mari, with Winer’s growled delivery holding it all together. Leslie Winer’s Music Was a Mystery in 1990. She Still Likes It That Way. 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

The staple was infectious, instrumental dance music based on the three chords of the blues — slow or fast. Musician Kent Morrill's bandmates throw a party in his memory 2011-04-29T21:13:05Z

Etta James sang professionally nearly her whole life, and could stock a long shelf full of memorable records: gritty blues songs in the 1950s, hits in a broad range of styles in the ’60s. A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 2012-01-20T22:06:06Z

They'd say, 'It's not rock'n'roll, it's not country, it's not blues, it's not old, it's not new.' Imelda May: Don't step on my red suede shoes 2011-02-03T22:55:01Z

“Dreams and Songs,” from Gov’t Mule’s new record “Revolution Come, Revolution Go,” is a soulful, blues inflected examination of life at the edges of creative pursuit and passion. Gov’t Mule’s “Revolution”: Hope for an angry and divided land 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson still spins his records every night, a mix of both big names and locals, and still mostly soul and blues. In Baton Rouge, They’re Still Singing the Blues 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

It's of Louise and Co singing, with Marling, their debut single, Melancholy, "a maudlin treatise on whiskey, wine and the blues" that is as deeply predictable as the press release implies. New band of the day ? No 1,069: Louise and the Pins 2011-07-25T16:26:02Z

They were, in fact, only the latest manifestations of musical innovations with Southern sources: blues, jazz, gospel, bluegrass, R&B, funk, soul. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

Instead, “Blue & Lonesome” is a set of a dozen blues songs that were originally recorded, mostly in the mid-1950s, by titans like Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter and Jimmy Reed. The Rolling Stones Paint It Blue on Their New Album 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

But once I am inside my hotel — the Camino Real Polanco, a universe of neon orange and eerie futuristic blues — my day feels near its end. In Mexico City, an itinerary built on modern architecture 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

But she chose not to record "Deep Song," a Holiday blues tune recommended to her. Time after time, jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson continues to surprise 2010-05-26T23:22:00Z

Inside, a golden football helmet with a fleur-de-lis overlooks portraits of Napoleon, hand thrust inside waistcoat, and the blues pianist James Booker, called the Bayou Maharajah, in eye patch and halo. Cajun, Far From Home, at the Gumbo Bros 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Check out the raw blues power of Lonesome Shack or The Shivas’ garage-pop bliss for starters. Timber! music fest back to rock the forest 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

In such paintings as “Chronograph,” inky blacks and midnight blues suggest deep space. Review | In the galleries: Autobiographical pieces prevail at the Trawick Prize 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Throughout the extended jam, he blew both gusts and breezes as the band drove through its sturdiest blues number. Bobby Keys, longtime Rolling Stones saxophonist, dies at age 70 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

I kept my respect for the Beatles, for Jimi Hendrix, and the blues. The Invention of Ambient Music 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

On “None of My Jelly Roll,” from a 1963 recording, Barrett sings an old blues lyric full of playful double entendre and shows off her rolling barroom piano style. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love New Orleans Jazz 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

The blues, once the foundation of several dominating modes of American popular music, still informs what we hear in our homes and on our devices, but not as overtly as it used to. Review: Paul Butterfield’s Story Is Told in ‘Horn From the Heart’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

One of the major blues musicians of his generation. ‘The end of an innocent world’: An oral history of the first National Book Festival, which debuted three days before 9/11 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Chess’s older brother, Leonard, who also started the label, supervised many of the blues recordings and was its public face, died in 1969. Phil Chess, co-founder of music label that brought blues to the world, dies at 95 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

As a pianist, she can navigate so many different genres: classical, jazz and blues. Noah Reid Preps for Parenthood With Plants and Nina Simone 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

The overall look of the film is lush and storybook-like, with a lovely painterly touch and soft rich hues, heavy on the blues, that matches its sometimes-introspective mood. The trip 'Into the Woods' is spooky, thoughtful, delightful 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

And a riotous eight-foot-tall work by Cecily Brown serves as an exuberant counterpoint to the subtly calibrated palette of pale blues, grays, and creams in the refined living room. Steve Gambrel Imbues A Storied Manhattan Duplex With His Signature Style 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

The point was to be as cartoonish as possible, to distract from the fact that they were white kids playing the blues. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z

The music Mr. Russell made on his own put a scruffy, casual surface on rich musical hybrids, interweaving soul, country, blues, jazz, gospel, pop and classical music. Leon Russell, Hit Maker and Musicians’ Musician, Dies at 74 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

“I did pretty well: Cajun two-step, two-step, blues.” Andrea Arnold’s Immersive Cinema 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

The second set became bogged down slightly around the middle, in a version of Elmore James’s 12-bar blues “The Sky Is Crying,” but roared back with a concert-closing encore of, yes, “Whipping Post.” Music Review: A Most Satisfying End of the Road for Allman Brothers 2014-03-08T23:59:44Z

“I knew that in my reaction to this great musician, suddenly the blues had tapped me on the shoulder,” he recalled in a 2009 interview. Danny Kalb, Guitarist Who Gave Blues-Rock an Edge, Dies at 80 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

Grohl also sets about sketching a rough outline of Chicago’s blues and rock history. ‘Sonic Highways’: Dave Grohl’s busy but beautiful road trip

So the evening’s blues artists yielded some of its sturdier highlights, as when Taj Mahal paired up with Bettye LaVette for a growly romp through “When You Got a Good Friend.” Music Review: ?Robert Johnson at 100? at the Apollo Theater 2012-03-07T19:51:48Z

"This unique D.C. delicacy is closely related to Go-Go music, a funky regional music style, which blends rhythm, blues and early hip-hop," Capital City Mumbo's website said. The story of mambo (or mumbo) sauce, the condiment that likely fueled the civil rights movement 2021-01-17T05:00:00Z

The shimmer’s whirling pinky purples and blues evoke the rainbow colors you see in oily patches on a road after it rains, which suggests there’s something toxic about its beauty. Review: In ‘Annihilation,’ a Heroic Journey into the Alien Shimmer 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Even “Three Women,” based on  vintage blues by Blind Willie McTell, disrupts a lothario’s boast with what sounds like an uneasy reference to online dating. Outsider no more, Jack White brings 'Lazaretto' to the Fonda Theatre 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Combining classic rock and the blues and mixing it with the mystical music and poetry of Islamic Sufism, he created "Sufi rock". Rock against religious fanaticism 2010-04-22T21:20:00Z

Juicy fruits like berries pair great with fresh goat cheese, while cornichons and olives stand up to sharper and more pungent cheeses such as French blues. A 1-2-3 guide to building the perfect charcuterie board 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

The alarmingly versatile blues man with the charmingly froggy voice has expanded his repertoire to the entire African diaspora. 7 days of Seattle music: From Ben Gibbard to Emanuel Ax 2012-11-09T20:04:04Z

During her college years, she played in a blues group called Sounds of Blue. Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, a distinctive voice whose hits spanned decades, is dead at 79 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Elderly blues musicians found themselves, to their amazement, courted for concerts, such as an unforgettable night at Hammersmith with Son House and Bukka White. The London years 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z

The concert featured a stirring blend of alternative-country, folk, blues and rock. Brandi Carlile and Seattle Symphony offer a stirring, lush delight 2012-11-24T20:32:14Z

Seasonal affective disorder was categorized under major depression to signify depression with a yearly recurrence, a condition far more debilitating than your average “winter blues.” Seasonal Affective Disorder may not exist at all, according to new study 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

At times, the singing comes close to the intense outpouring of the blues. Review: Making Eloquent Theater From Bleak Facts 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

The Rolling Stones frontman says the president did pretty well when he joined in during a White House blues concert earlier in the week. Jagger sizes up Obama's singing as 'courageous' 2012-02-23T19:16:09Z

Is a reading race, with prizes, the antidote to the January blues? Read for My School competition offers free Roald Dahl and Eoin Colfer books 2012-11-30T00:02:00Z

A lot of people think the blues is depressing," she told The Los Angeles Times in 1992, "but that's not the blues I'm singing. Versatile, powerful R&B singer Etta James dies at 73 2012-01-21T01:20:04Z

It was a set steeped in horn-spackled blues tradition as much as the more personal perspective of his 1974 masterpiece, “Inspiration Information.” Concert review: Shuggie Otis at Lincoln Hall 2013-04-18T06:16:00Z

Though his palette at first appears to be limited — black, grays, soft blues and yellows, it is actually very complex. Painter Jared Rue brings nature in close 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

For many, the blues have but one epicenter, deep in the Mississippi Delta. What the blues sound like, all over the map 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

And for festivalgoers seeking a more intimate immersion into the blues, the event includes several freestyle jam sessions at restaurants and bars around town. Where to Hear Music in 2018 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

“Members Don’t Get Weary,” he said in a statement, is “a response to the current social landscape in America” and “takes an abstract look into the notion of one ‘having the blues.’” An Alvin Ailey Dancer Plans His Debut as a Choreographer 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Throughout the 1960s, as the audience for the blues expanded exponentially, Mr. Charters continued to write about the music and to produce blues-based records for Folkways, Prestige, Vanguard and other labels. Samuel Charters, Foundational Scholar of the Blues, Dies at 85 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

His vocals, by turns squalling and brooding, took their cue from the anguished emoting of down-home blues singers like Elmore James, as well as more sophisticated ones like Bobby Bland. Gregg Allman, Influential Force Behind the Allman Brothers Band, Dies at 69 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

To be an improvising musician nowadays almost always means writing your own textbook, often with source material from outside the blues and jazz tradition. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

He recently said he just wanted to be remembered as "a good blues musician". Blues musician Johnny Winter dies 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

He won the Blues Foundation's blues music award for the best piano player so often that he eventually retired from the competition, whereupon the prize became the Pinetop Perkins piano player of the year award. Pinetop Perkins obituary 2011-03-23T12:11:44Z

Ms. Hopkins made several blues recordings with Mr. Otis on the Savoy label before interpreting Bessie Smith songs in “The Jazz Train,” a historical revue staged in the United States and Europe. Linda Hopkins, a Tony-Winning Actress and Singer, Dies at 92 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

His wife compared him to the great blues singers, whose pain gained meaning in the act of expressing it. A Composer and His Wife: Creativity Through Kink 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

With the Davies brothers he began to rehearse rock'n'roll and rhythm and blues numbers by Buddy Holly, the Ventures and Chuck Berry. Pete Quaife obituary 2010-06-25T15:45:00Z

Anyway, they wrote the best primal rock, rhythm and blues and every musical genre in between and beyond. Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z

King, who rose from sharecropper in the area's flat cotton fields to worldwide fame as a blues singer and guitarist who influenced generations of entertainers. B.B. King's funeral draws hundreds in Mississippi 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

The Fifth Étude evokes a misty sound world somewhere between Minimalism and the blues. Music Review: ?Bell?Italia? at New York Guitar Festival at 92nd Street Y 2012-01-31T22:59:35Z

To lose yourself in work is to forget the winter blues – and Matisse's studio is perfectly primed for escape. The 10 best paintings for winter cheer 2013-01-12T19:05:00Z

“That’s why I wrote the books as I did, to romanticize the glamour of looking for old blues singers. I was saying, ‘Help! Samuel Charters, Foundational Scholar of the Blues, Dies at 85 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

There are cliffs of curtain-wall glazing, rendered in metallic blues and greens, pinks and golds. Shenzhen stock exchange building: inside China's 'miniskirt' 2013-04-16T17:56:13Z

At the pre-concert talk, Haas, 63, who speaks with the soft accent of his native Austria, tried to prepare the audience for a piece that uses microtones, citing the blues as an accessible example. The real headliner of the concert: alphorns, blowing a whirlwind of dark emotion through Disney Hall 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

The Beatles are in the rhythm and blues tradition, which is very Negro and earthy, and related to folk music. The Beatles: a trigger for a musical revolution 2012-10-04T09:56:03Z

I'm old- i can remember when the Grammy awards used o show all of the types of music up for awards: jazz,classical ,folk,blues,country, and so on. Grammy Nominations 2018: Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar Lead the Way 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Having started off in a blues band, Clarke later returned to blues music and released what would be his final album, “Make My Day, Back to Blues” in 2014. Motorhead's 'Fast Eddie' Clarke dies at 67 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

They were two fatherless boys from Florida, and they were being exposed to a pioneer of soul music, a genre incorporating gospel and rhythm and blues. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

To him, she wrote, the blues were “the genuine legacy of slavery.” Albert Murray, Essayist Who Challenged the Conventional, Dies at 97 2013-08-19T16:57:56Z

Meyer says she sees the bold and citric Greenery not as an overall color scheme in a room but as an accessory color that looks good with blues, purples or aubergines. Pantone’s 2017 Color of the Year is a ‘bright and powerful’ green 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

And if you imagine that the link between the contemporary British painter and the 19th-century Post-Impressionist is the use of bold, contrasting colors — purples and blues set against mustard yellows — you will quickly think again. David Hockney Loves Van Gogh. This Exhibition Shows Why. 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

As a composer, he brought the blues erudition of Duke Ellington into every group he led, whether sextets or full orchestras. The Multifaceted Mingus 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

But on Saturday night, Chestnut’s filter was the blues. Blues Alley offers big shoes for Cyrus Chestnut, but he’s got a pair of his own 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

“When I came to Chicago, most blues musicians, including Muddy Waters, they all was sitting in a chair playing. And I said, ‘I can’t play like them, but I think I can outdo them. Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy looks back on a special career 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

It is part chant and part hymn but is rife with a reverence that reveals Williams’s expansive bebop and blues harmonic ingenuity. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Laurie, 54, talked to Reuters about his transition from an actor to a blues crooner, working with Stephen Fry and appearing in a Daft Punk tribute with Stephen Colbert. A Minute With: Hugh Laurie sings the blues after 'House' 2013-08-14T12:10:18Z

King, who died this spring at the age of 89, after a blues career that spanned eight decades. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Yet, even leaving aside the rough-and-ready worlds of the blues and post-blues hard rock, it's not hard to understand why the early days of pop and rock'n'roll included so many songs about teenage girls. Older men, young girls: a common theme of 70s pop – but still wrong 2012-10-06T23:06:39Z

With the steel guitar’s tinny bite, the music hinted at blues and old-time country, while the acoustic guitar moved it into folk-pop. Music Review: Folky Strokes, With Dabs of News, Video and Static 2010-12-08T23:03:00Z

Mr. Mouzon had early experience in rhythm and blues and pop, including a stint with Chubby Checker. Alphonse Mouzon, Jazz and Fusion Drummer, Dies at 68 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

White neon tubes affixed to aluminum letters spell the words “blues,” “bruise” and “blood.” How Glenn Ligon Is Using Black and Blue to Begin a Dialogue 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Serious jazz on the steel pan — jazz imbued with the historical vocabulary of swing, bebop and the blues, and not, as Provost puts it, simply “improvised music” — may not be crazy. In Victor Provost’s hands, the steel pan becomes a mesmerizing ride 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

He has been releasing about an album a year of late, the last one, "Get Up!," a fiery blues recording with harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite. Ben Harper and his mom roam the store that was a childhood home 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

As he puts it, finding their own subject matter enabled them to be blues musicians without the carping about them being white and never having picked cotton. ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z

And he sang a blues with the lyric “I can read your letters, but I sure can’t read your mind.” Music Review: Frank Fairfield and Blind Boy Paxton at Jalopy 2010-07-21T22:41:00Z

At his death Mr. Oliver left a 1,400-page manuscript on the Texas blues that he had begun writing with the researcher Mack McCormick in 1959. Paul Oliver, Pre-eminent Authority on the Blues, Dies at 90 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

She often characterizes romantic love as a kind of sublime balm—as the best way to dull the blues of living—but she is endlessly frank about its limitations and challenges. Joni Mitchell Discusses Her New Book of Early Songs and Drawings 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Johnson moved to Chicago’s South Side as a teenager and started playing blues guitar. Syl Johnson, Chicago soul and blues artist, dies at 85 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Armani’s warm browns and blues, as well as micro checks, made a good base for his energized silhouette. Fashion Review: Milan Men’s Fashion Week, Fall 2014 2014-01-15T22:59:32Z

“Chess not only became the true repository of American blues music, but it also presented black music for the edification of white audiences throughout the world,” the citation read. Phil Chess, co-founder of music label that brought blues to the world, dies at 95 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Richards was at the Toronto film festival last year to promote a film about his solo album 'Crosseyed Heart' that also studied the influence of blues, country and even reggae on his music. Rolling Stones premiere Cuba concert documentary in Toronto 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

“Langston in Harlem,” an earnest new musical at Urban Stages, turns Hughes’s blues- and jazz-inflected poems back into songs but loses their essence in the process. | 'Langston in Harlem': Langston Hughes Poems Become Songs at Urban Stages 2010-04-20T21:21:00Z

Painted in gouache with pinks and blues, the image looks surprisingly modern. Asia Week Events Set for Galleries and Museums 2014-03-13T22:06:34Z

Pianist Conal Fowkes was a favorite, adding ragtime, blues, gospel and saloon colors to the band's Dixieland sound, which ranged from whispered restraint to ecstatic chaos. Woody Allen's jazz band warmly received 2011-12-27T19:45:04Z

“Bobby’s almost unique in the blues world today, because he has connections that go back so far,” he said. Bobby Rush Lived the Blues. Six Decades On, He’s Still Playing Them. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

She coos and trumpets; she whispers and growls; she reaches into blues and gospel and does some jazzy scat singing. Critics? Choice: New Cds: The Droll, Buzzing Grandpas of Rap 2011-05-02T19:51:31Z

Mr. Hambridge also backed Mr. Guy with musicians who understand exactly what the songs need: old-fashioned blues and soul arrangements, strictly pre-1980s, played with zero complacency. Playlist: New Music From Washed Out, Buddy Guy and Natalia Lafourcade 2013-08-09T18:39:31Z

Soon after, during the 1950s and 1960s, Chicago became the recording center for the blues. Two planned museums brighten the future of the blues 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Gioia nods to a few of these women, spinning them as singers who, with “a whole posse of helpers,” turned “blues into a commercial property.” Beethoven Was the Johnny Rotten of His Day 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Clark is smart to resist typecasting as a blues revivalist and to approach the studio as a platform distinct from the stage. Review: Gary Clark Jr. With Hometown Blues 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Here, foggy mists hang like lace curtains over sprawling Willapa Bay, where the palette is all soft greens, dusty blues and sea-grass tan. Visit Oysterville on the Long Beach Peninsula for fresh oysters and a slice of history 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Harper spent much of his childhood in Houston’s Third Ward, a historically Black neighborhood filled in those days with blues joints. At 80, Billy Harper’s Rhapsodic Saxophone Is Still a Towering Force 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

His father, Len, an amateur guitarist, introduced him to the blues early on. The guitar nerd from Utica who has come to save the blues 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

He celebrated his recovery by writing and recording the up-tempo blues “Last Train From Overbrook,” which became one of his best-known compositions. James Moody, Jazz Saxophonist, Dies at 85 2010-12-10T19:00:00Z

I like it better than the blues, to be honest with you. Brian Setzer Premieres New Song 'Let's Shake' and Reveals His Favorite Guitar Solo 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

He used to radio all the other bus drivers, 'Can you pick your favourite country and blues songs and send them to me?' Adele to go country on next album 2011-08-05T10:43:02Z

The contours of a tune like “Bigger Thomas” reflect Coltrane’s innovations in blues form, revisited by a dauntless heir. The Blues? Overcoming Hard Times Through Swinging Elegance 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Ruggedly experimental free-jazz, classical, South African townships bop, Hammond-organ blues – Oxford pianist Hawkins splices it all, with idiosyncratic tributes to Thelonious Monk and Art Tatum thrown in. Best jazz albums of 2012 2012-12-13T22:01:22Z

Hence all the light, plants, clean lines and friendly blues. Review | Nina May is dialed into diners’ desires in Logan Circle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

He was the longtime guitarist for Howlin’ Wolf and inspired a generation of rock and blues players with his emotional solos, among them Mr. Richards. ArtsBeat Blog: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to Pay for Hubert Sumlin's Funeral 2011-12-09T00:43:22Z

The Pilgrims, she said, would have worn an array of colors: russets, golds, blues, the occasional scarlet. Thanksgiving Re-enacted Around the Country 2011-11-17T20:45:59Z

The first guitar my dad bought me was like a mini one for kids, and I learned to play the blues pentatonic scale. H.E.R. Still Finds Inspiration in Prince and ‘Martin’ 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

Traditional blues and contemporary blues were put together, as were traditional and contemporary folk music. Grammy Award Cuts Still Face Some Opposition 2011-12-28T23:18:54Z

When I was growing up, my father had a huge record collection of blues and soul, and in the 1970s I listened to all of it. After #OscarsSoWhite, Disability Waits for Its Moment 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z

Bright, rich colors of blues, reds, browns and blacks were accented with shiny gold and silver and animal print. Japanese fashion designer Shoji launches collection inspired by Mongol Empire 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

It was modeled on the traditional-music showcases at the Newport Folk Festival, but filled entirely with Louisiana’s own styles — jazz, blues, gospel, brass bands, zydeco, Mardi Gras Indians and much more. Jazz Fest at 50: The Stubbornness and Joy of New Orleans 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

Paris is a long way away, but, here, so is Harlem, its residents and anything sounding like the blues. Review: Name-Dropping Harlem in ‘Blues for an Alabama Sky’ 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Among Winter's best known songs was "Still Alive and Well", a blues rock stomper recorded after he resurfaced from heroin addiction in the 1970s. Famed blues guitarist Johnny Winter dead at 70 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

He was sympathetic to blues and folk music and had one of his biggest hits in 1951 with Johnnie Ray’s “Cry,” a histrionic performance often cited as a rock ’n’ roll precursor. Mitch Miller, Maestro of the Singalong, Dies at 99 2010-08-02T16:28:00Z

A barrelhouse blues pianist, Rabson was also a songwriter and guitarist. Co-found of Saffire women's blues trio dies in Va. 2013-01-30T22:31:05Z

For instance, a question about whether hip-hop is the modern blues sees him asserting the world will undergo a fundamental change in 2024. ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z

A service station across the road had a jukebox, on which Mr. Allison heard blues singers like Memphis Minnie and Tampa Red. Mose Allison, a Font of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

"It seemed that every ethnic group was identified with a product or service that they owned and controlled, and it seemed that the product generally attributed to us was music: jazz, blues, R&B, gospel." Harold Battiste, influential New Orleans jazz musician, dies at 83 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

House’s rediscovery coincided with the 1960s revival of folk blues, of which he knew nothing until Mr. Waterman — who soon became his manager — and the other two young men told him. Son House Inspires a Rochester Blues Festival 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

After taking a trip through the American South in 1964, interviewing and recording blues singers, Mr. Oliver wrote “The Story of the Blues.” Paul Oliver, Pre-eminent Authority on the Blues, Dies at 90 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

“Ode,” for which he is also designing the costumes, is just his second work for the company, a follow-up to his acclaimed exploration of the blues, “Members Don’t Get Weary.” At Alvin Ailey, a Quiet Disrupter With No Time for Tears 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

The models, dressed in moody hues of grays and blues, wore trim pants rolled up to their knees and relaxed, wrinkled jackets and cardigans on the catwalk. Special Report: The Forecast? Variable and Partly Stylish 2010-06-20T16:13:00Z

Stolle said the 94-year-old Edwards, is living history: a link to one of the blues realm's most compelling and influential figures. Juke Joint Festival spotlights Miss. blues history 2010-04-14T18:34:00Z

The form is a by-the-book slow blues, with plenty of room for Mr. Allman to let the vocal drama build, from bemoaning “our bad, bad misfortune” to full-throated shouts and roars at the end. Gregg Allman: A Voice of the South Who Mixed a Musical Melting Pot 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

These lines call to mind Jimi Hendrix’s observation that “blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.” Books of The Times: ‘Southern Cross the Dog,’ a Novel by Bill Cheng 2013-05-21T21:36:57Z

“Forget reparations — we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks,” Mr. Young declares, “whether it is the blues or home cookin’ or broader forms of not just survival, but triumph.” Books of The Times: ?The Grey Album? by Kevin Young 2012-03-15T21:50:21Z

He handled the preludes freely, almost like singing the blues, except with the prelude of the Fourth Suite, where he started stomping the blues. Yo-Yo Ma does the impossible at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

“White folks don’t understand about the blues,” says the pioneering singer Ma Rainey, as imagined by August Wilson and incarnated by Viola Davis. ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Review: All the Blues That’s Fit to Sing 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

As he performed at the Metropolitan Room on Wednesday evening, several inner storytellers jostled to be heard in a show made up equally of jazz, soul and blues. Music Review: Gregory Generet at the Metropolitan Room 2012-03-30T22:52:00Z

Black music was veering toward the blues, while white string bands were categorized as “hillbilly,” playing music that is acknowledged to be the precursor of today’s bluegrass and country music. Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z

But it was for his gospel singing - religious music that combined the rhythmic beat of blues, jazz and soul - that Dixon first gained attention. Songwriter, gospel singer Jessy Dixon dies at 73 2011-09-26T20:28:08Z

Known for: He’s won the Grammy for best blues album three times, for “Just Like You,” “Slow Down,” and “Keep it Simple.” Which artists have made the most visits to the Obama White House? 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

“David” takes a basic blues pattern and turns it into a bouncy, insistent piece on the many reasons why the titular ex-boyfriend is getting the boot. Coachella music fest: 10 picks out of 166 acts 2014-04-09T17:36:48Z

Then came the Broadway stars, parading a sea of pinks, blues and gold. Best and Worst Moments of the 76th Tony Awards 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

With its mix of understated grooving, chiming rock/blues guitar sounds and passages of glistening delicacy, this band recalled the early ensembles led by vibraphonist Gary Burton. Gwilym Simcock/Mike Walker 2010-05-27T20:46:00Z

During some of their stadium concerts in the past, the Stones have put on specific blues sets, and their repertoire includes the likes of Dixon's "Little Red Rooster" and Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain". Rolling Stones to release new album in December 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

“Nobody was making a decent living off of playing the blues,” he says. Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy looks back on a special career 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

He’s since become an accomplished blues and R&B performer. The tale of the 2,018-person choir: a kickoff to Special Olympics in Seattle 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

It was a concert so fixated on elegant details that its blues were bloodless. Music Review: Pairing Their Sounds and Sharing the Blues 2011-04-10T21:52:38Z

In all, about 800 musicians will perform Cajun, jazz, blues, gospel, zydeco and funk. New Orleans French Quarter Fest kicks off Thursday 2012-04-11T18:41:17Z

In the original opera the residents of Catfish Row slowly dance to a honky-tonk piano playing music described in DuBose Heyward’s libretto as “low-down blues.” Critic?s Notebook: Did ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? Meets Its Goal? 2012-01-14T00:31:27Z

The revolutionary posters were everywhere flaming from the walls in clean reds and blues that made the few remaining advertisements look like daubs of mud. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z

Blues Traveler was soon working steadily and playing gigs at blues venues, restaurants and campus fraternities. John Popper on 30 years of Blues Traveler and heading out solo 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

When Big Joe Turner, a blues shouter who had an R. & B. hit with the song, sings the same line, we see something different. The Startling Blast of “Rock Around the Clock,” Sixty Years Later 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

She samples Soulja Boy and Led Zeppelin; she sings the blues. Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” Is a Revelation of Spirit 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

His current set is a mix of originals, American blues and folk songs, interspersed with Led Zeppelin hits. Robert Plant Announces Brooklyn Show 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

He spent a year in Asia, returning to Bangkok to guest with a blues band in an expat bar every time his money ran out, each night's pay keeping him afloat for another few weeks. Seal: The reluctant pop star 2010-09-16T22:00:00Z

He's showcased his versatility at Bonnaroo, laying down epic guitar solos with his jam band friends, playing the blues and now laying down soul songs that might appeal to an entirely different crowd. It's all about soul for Warren Haynes at Bonnaroo 2011-06-11T01:20:09Z

It was certainly no surprise when an actual blues tune, Ulmer’s “No Escape From the Blues,” came up four songs into the set. At Strathmore, James Blood Ulmer delivers songs both accessible and scintillating 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

“Words can’t describe it if you like blues like I do,” Lay told the South Bend Tribune that year, referring to the band. Blues drummer Sam Lay dies at 86; played with Dylan, Waters 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

Gary Clark Jr., a guitarist adored by critics and rock and blues purists, won three awards. Billie Eilish Sweeps Top Awards at the Grammys 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

Artist, occultist, filmmaker, ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, mystic, shaman and kabbalist, he was also an avid collector of blues and folk records, paper airplanes, string figures, Ukrainian Easter eggs, Kiowa peyote songs, ambient street sounds and more. Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

Robinson started off as a blues singer in the 1950s, recording for Columbia and Savoy Records on songs like "Chocolate Candy Blues." Sylvia Robinson, early hip-hop promoter, dies 2011-09-29T19:39:07Z

His manner of sliding up to pitches, emphasizing blues inflections and releasing cascades of soft trills made a compelling case for this ballad. Miguel Zenon illuminates Puerto Rican jazz 2011-05-27T15:35:57Z

For my first outing, I opted for a few of the blues off the Las Lomas lift, which was nearly empty. Want to ski on your summer vacation? Head to the Chilean Andes. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

The singer's earthy holler grounded it in the blues tradition, but the lyrics were wild and surreal. Captain Beefheart: dust blows forward and dust blows back - an appreciation 2010-12-18T00:37:31Z

He abruptly intercuts the different musical sources throughout the film, following a scene with drone-like chanting and two women’s incantation of a naïvely metaphysical meditation with one of Coleman’s catchiest blues jaunts. Ornette Coleman’s Inspired Soundtrack for “Who’s Crazy?” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

They are serious, ambitious and elastic arrangements he could put everything into, high culture and low, Shakespeare as well as the blues, strong religious feeling as well as low impulses of every variety. John Berryman Is Reconsidered in 4 New Books 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Connections are still made between Delta blues and the music of the continent. What the blues sound like, all over the map 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

That’s the magic, therapeutic and healing thing about the blues, and that’s why, of all the genres of music I’ve done in the last 50 some years, I settled into the blues in recent years. Fifty-odd years in, Maria Muldaur finds much happiness in the blues 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Because of his Midwestern roots, he was initially drawn to blues music. John C. Reilly’s Group in Lincoln Center Songbook Series 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

It was red reds, blue blues and there was no mincing it. As Gronk's set designs go on view at CAFAM, the artist talks opera, painting and B-movie crab monsters 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The raspy-voiced blues moaner has been in Hollywood’s crosshairs for more than a decade, with one project after another biting the dust. From Hank to Hendrix and Joplin to Davis: the new wave of musical biopics 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The biggest shows kick off on Friday, when the main Pyramid stage will host blues guitar legend B.B. U2, Coldplay, Beyonce lead line-up at Glastonbury 2011-06-22T11:33:08Z

But hard bop was simpler and more rhythmically driven, with more emphasis on jazz’s blues and gospel roots. Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Ms. Davis saw herself following through on the blues and rock ’n’ roll she had grown up on in the 1950s. Betty Davis Was a Raw Funk Pioneer. Her Decades of Silence Are Over. 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

As a youngster in Chicago he took classical flute lessons but was drawn to the city’s blues clubs. Review: Paul Butterfield’s Story Is Told in ‘Horn From the Heart’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

One tone of blue was assigned to each group — “so the big picture of the stage has this nice, subtle but I think very elegant shift of blues across it, kind of a sea.” Seattle designer Michael Cepress adds panache to SSO ensembles 2014-05-05T02:00:05Z

When Mr. Harris mutes his lurking blues bark, he closely resembles Nat King Cole. Music Review: Allan Harris Sings at the Metropolitan Room 2012-08-29T21:21:53Z

The show was a mix of early rock and country blues, the latter often molasses-slow and lyrically far from sweet. Jerry Lee Lewis' 40 minute set unites generations 2010-09-30T00:43:00Z

As big bands fell out of fashion, Mr. Otis stripped the ensemble down to just a few horns and a rhythm section and stepped to the forefront of the emerging rhythm and blues scene. Johnny Otis, Rhythm and Blues Musician, Dies at 90 2012-01-20T01:42:36Z

With more than 30 albums to his credit, Slim also was known for an encyclopedic mastery of the blues, Salzman said. Chicago bluesman Magic Slim dead at 75 2013-02-22T04:08:38Z

In that case you loved blues, roots and the scruffy side. ‘Beatles vs. Stones’: Which side are you on? 2013-12-13T21:49:48Z

Fioretti said that despite the Cheap Trick connection, he hopes the district will incorporate the city's deeper blues music past. Chicago celebrates music history in revived zone 2012-01-22T18:25:35Z

“We grew up at the same time, in the same gumbo of blues and Southern R&B,” he said in a telephone interview. A New Start And a Gumbo Of Old Sounds 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z

The hugely popular British Invasion bands of the 1960s were generally too busy aping American rockabilly and blues artists to act as the Johnny Appleseeds of British vernacular. Noted: Americans Are Barmy Over Britishisms 2012-10-10T20:37:21Z

Ms. Bell did open with a raw a cappella rendition of “Another Man Done Gone,” supplementing the old blues lament with eerie ingressive shrieks and ululations. Review: ‘Prisoner’s Song’ Delves Into Creativity of Confinement 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Already presented in blues and folk versions, Rucker changed it yet again to fit his silky baritone and traditional country and classic rock influences. Darius Rucker rides 'Wagon Wheel' to top of charts 2013-05-23T13:15:25Z

They’re wrapped for me in a web of nostalgia — for my youth and a disappearing New York — and melancholy, because the music, even the sharpest bebop, always seems inflected with the blues. The Harlem Jazz Club Where the Spirit of Billie Holiday Lives On 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Copeland and her sizzling five-piece band are funking it up good at Jazz Alley through Sunday night, with a set of blues, rock-inflected R & B and even a little gospel, to rev up the soul. Review: Shemekia Copeland brings in the funk at Jazz Alley 2010-08-22T19:12:00Z

Otis Clay, the soul music legend from Chicago who entered the Blues Hall of Fame last year, says that once radio segregated blues from other genres, “fans and the music suffered.” Young bluesmen take up the torch for a musical tradition

Its 152 guest rooms, most with sea views and all with terraces, adopt a palette of golden sand, pale driftwood and marine blues. From Dubrovnik to London, 9 European Hotels With Water Views 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Although she is often called a country singer, she borrows as much, if not more, from folk, pop, blues and soul. Shelby Lynne's new disc all her own 2011-10-17T20:07:05Z

“You see different colors in them at different points of the day: reds, blues, whites. They are constantly changing.” Black Is Still the Only Color for Pierre Soulages 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

Or the impassioned, expressionist brushwork or dark blues and maroons. Independent 20th Century’s Artists in a Cozy New Fair Spinoff 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Metallic silver ink evokes energy and light, frequently contrasting rich oceanic or atmospheric blues. Review | In the galleries: An artist conjures images from oceans to a micro view of nature 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Like most conversations with Dylan, “Rough and Rowdy Ways” covers complex territory: trances and hymns, defiant blues, love longings, comic juxtapositions, prankster wordplay, patriotic ardor, maverick steadfastness, lyrical Cubism, twilight-age reflections and spiritual contentment. Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

The blues of the 1830s were the liberals of the day, the opponents of slavery, concentrated in the Midwest and Northeast. Francis Scott Key on trial 2012-07-04T11:30:00Z

The only problem is that this theater is in the Film Museum in Vienna, and too distant to cure my occasional moviegoing blues. | Movies: An Unfortunate Return to Reality 2013-07-18T21:30:30Z

If you play blues, pentatonic scales, perhaps you don’t need to practice so much. Richard Thompson: Innovation in, nostalgia out 2013-03-10T23:57:00Z

Racism and exploitation in the life of the rough-and-tumble real-life blues singer Ma Rainey, one of the first black singers to get a recording contract, and the members of her combative quartet. August Wilson on Broadway: A History 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

The pale pinks and blues, the creams, a sudden vinegary yellow, were seemingly taken from the sky. 2010-01-28T08:06:00Z

For example, he turned Horace Silver’s piano solo on the medium-tempo blues “Doodlin’” into a meditation on the hidden meaning of doodles, with lines like these: Jon Hendricks, master of scat, jazz vocalization and sly lyrics, dies at 96 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Jazz, blues and folk are a great way of expression. Donovan to Enter Songwriters Hall of Fame 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

They set a few words within a gentle vamp, often with a touch of jazz or blues, and linger over them until they become liquid incantations, melting into the music and finding refuge there. Music Review: Michael Kiwanuka at the Highline Ballroom 2012-06-14T21:40:14Z

As for the tabletops, they are ceramic, rendered in high-gloss reds and blues that mirror the surfaces of the region’s lakes. An Argentine Designer Rocks the Boulders 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

Most of the advice for dealing with Sad or the winter blues boils down to: “Get more light.” Winter blues? A practical guide to getting more light in your life 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

I was listening to Chicago blues, hard-core country and mostly American-made music. Bernie Taupin Tells the Story Behind 1972’s ‘Rocket Man’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

How he renders it is striking: a sing-rap drawl, sometimes emphatic and sometimes absent-minded, flecked with light touches of the blues. The Gut-Level Emotions of YoungBoy Never Broke Again 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Levinson’s color schemes, dominated by earth and metallic tones set off by intense blues, evoke the land of the pharaohs. In the galleries: The eclectic art of the Dominican disapora 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

While his talents extend beyond the blues, the electricity of Bright Lights epitomises why Austin audiences are excited by this hometown hero. Ovrld.com's Texas road trip playlist 2013-06-21T23:10:00Z

You can tell Mr Case – Suit to his friends – is singing the blues from the titles. New band of the day ? No 964: SuitCase 2011-02-09T16:48:37Z

Is the new nationwide reading competition, Read for My School, the perfect antidote to January blues? Read for My School competition offers free Roald Dahl and Eoin Colfer books 2012-11-30T00:02:00Z

At 15 tracks, it's too long, and its underlying blues sensibility is occasionally stale, though Petty's way with a hook brightens even the most sluggish numbers. Tom Petty and Steve Miller: boomers with something to prove 2010-06-10T20:55:00Z

I have to remind myself of these things whenever I hear an artist like Paul Butterfield, the blues singer and harmonica player who was prominent in the ’60s and ’70s. Review: Paul Butterfield’s Story Is Told in ‘Horn From the Heart’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

This album is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard: part Duke Ellington, part modal scales, part the blues, part church music. Norah Jones Enjoys a Weekly Christmas, and Sweating to the (Not So) Oldies 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, there’s a surefire remedy for the winter vegetable blues: braising. Cure for the midwinter vegetable blues: Braise ’em 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Other numbers like “Sloe Gin,” “If Heartaches Were Nickels” and “The Last Matador of Bayonne” typically extend into elongated minor-key blues jams that display his virtuosity. Concert Preview: Joe Bonamassa will rock the blues 2013-04-11T20:44:44Z

I think, ‘Come on! Let’s do more! Let’s do a whole blues set!’ Keith Richards reveals he’s cut back on drinking: “I got fed up with it” 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

The US musician became a fan of country and pre-war blues after being introduced to the genre as a teenager, thanks to a clutch of Document Records releases. White rescues obscure blues music 2013-02-06T15:13:35Z

"He left the blues early on and became a sanctified preacher and died in Los Angeles in 1965." Salutes mark bluesman Robert Johnson's centennial 2011-05-05T21:22:08Z

The blues are a major part of the Kills’ songs. Music Review: Two Musicians at One With the Basics 2011-08-09T22:22:16Z

We asked Dave Weld and The Imperial Flames, a favorite Chicago-based blues boogie band, to make sure, when the time was right, that the dance floor was jumping. Engagement season panic sets in: Before you plan a big expensive traditional wedding, read this 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

Recent college grad, no job and a broken engagement producing a bad case of the blues. 'Two Night Stand' a one-act sex comedy that grows cold too soon 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Yet his recent albums have been disappointing, falling back on ready-made blues structures and well-worn images in rough-and-ready, undercooked productions. New Music from Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame 2011-08-08T22:27:29Z

Another set of scarves: Rich sky blues, pastel yellows, maroon, teal, slate gray. What hue looks best on you? Color analysis is back to help us obsess over our personal identities. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

“I always see similarities between blues, country, R&B and rock ‘n’ roll. Jimmie Vaughan a terrific team player 2011-08-14T22:30:00Z

But for a songwriter who draws a through-line between Delta blues, sad Irish ballads and contemporary alt-folk, he needs to see that vision through. Hozier takes a worshipful L.A. to an actual church 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

His sound, especially as the band shifted from fractured funk into a walking blues, suggested an imprecise overdub, with two voices bleating not quite identical lines. Music Review | Joe Lovano and Us Five: Celebrating 75 Years of Grooves in Village 2010-02-26T22:49:00Z

Growing up, Holmes learned from his neighbor, “the father of the Bentonia blues.” In Mississippi, small-town bluesman keeps aging music alive 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

In this Texas room, aqua accents in the pillows, throw, and rug mimic the ocean’s dazzling blues, and the pops of bright orange are inspired by the magnificent hues of the setting sun. 15 Beach-Style Decorating Ideas 2010-03-13T00:22:00Z

What Ulmer was doing might be best described as “free blues.” At Strathmore, James Blood Ulmer delivers songs both accessible and scintillating 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

“Memphis Beat,” a crime drama that begins on Tuesday on TNT, is a classic procedural — unorthodox cop meets by-the-book lieutenant — framed by the smoky, neon-lit romance of the blues and Southern decay. | 'Memphis Beat': On TNT, Jason Lee Plays a Cop With an Eye on Elvis 2010-06-21T22:32:00Z

Reinhardt used the word "interfused" at one point, and that was very much the feeling, both with individual acts – mixing, say, the blues from Senegal and Essex – and across the programmes. Radio review: Late Junction 2011-07-21T19:30:01Z

In a statement, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago called Mr. Brooks “a Chicago blues legend with a towering talent and soulful style that won him legions of fans across the country and around the world.” Lonnie Brooks, Bluesman Who Had a Hit With ‘Sweet Home Chicago,’ Dies at 83 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

He began performing professionally soon thereafter and brought a showman’s flair to the classic blues tradition, sometimes doing back flips on stage. James Cotton, hard-blowing harmonica master of the blues, dies at 81 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

At the blues party, you come out the door and what’s greeting you? Steve McQueen unveils an anthology of racism and resistance 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

Jones, now 75, brings his distinctive sound to blues, rockabilly and other American-roots-style numbers. At 75, Tom Jones has a new book, a new album — and a new take on life 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Although this song has been worked over obsessively and played before a stunned audience, Dylan has changed up the tempo, and turns another numbing blues into something wholly different. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

A lawyer for the blues musician’s estate, for which Toney is executor, told the Associated Press that the accusations were “ridiculous” and “extremely disrespectful.” Foul play ruled out in B.B. King's death; musician died of natural causes, coroner says 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

“It’s not the way that the Delta blues feels like raw pain in a way,” Clayton said, explaining what drew him to the region’s music. Celebrating a subdued kind of blues 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The headstone project follows the path of earlier efforts like the Mount Zion Memorial Fund, which emerged two decades ago when the Mississippi church where blues legend Robert Johnson was buried faced foreclosure. Grave marker project helps bury the blues 2013-12-30T14:37:27Z

But when the blues first arrived in America’s mass consciousness roughly half a century ago, largely via British blues players, it was seen as the primordial style upon which rock-and-roll was building tomorrow’s castles. The thrill is gone. So is B.B. King. Now what happens to blues music? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

But in its proudly handmade sensibility — and its melding of rural blues, Appalachian bluegrass and haunted psychedelic folk — it does represent him well. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z

She was also an accomplished actor, gaining an Oscar nomination for best actress in 1955 for her portrayal of a despairing, alcoholic blues singer in Pete Kelly's Blues. Reese Witherspoon set to play Peggy Lee in Nora Ephron's biopic 2010-08-10T10:47:00Z

“This book has blues, it has rock ‘n’ roll,” Ms. Williams said. What if Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Told Their Love Story? What if It Were a Ballet? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

"For Michelle and me," the president said, "there's no blues like the song our artists have chosen to close with - the blues from our hometown." Obama joins Jagger, B.B. King, to belt out blues 2012-02-22T13:28:08Z

The saxophone player James Senese, caught in blue light, lets the blues flow like water. 'Passione: A Musical Adventure' hits the right notes 2011-07-14T19:31:05Z

The whole hour is just this sort of chilling: percussive work songs, big-bottomed gospel, moaning blues, dramatically spare sets that imply segregation and incarceration, the weather system that called herself Odetta. Harry Belafonte, Folk Hero 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

“Hell for Certain,” from her just-released album of guitar solos, “Strange Lights over Garth Mountain,” merges the spirit of a vintage blues train song with a hint of mystical drone. Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa’s Retro Rock, and 8 More New Songs 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

On “Footprints,” the second of three songs in the first set, he played at a languorous pace but with as many blues licks as he could squeeze in. Kahil El’Zabar: Jazz as spiritual experience 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

These days, however, he’s taking his protest music and social-commentary blues to a new level. For Ry Cooder, a Dog’s Life and a Deal With the Devil 2012-08-24T17:43:15Z

If the blues was about squeezing cathartic joy out of the bad times, this new music was about letting the good times roll. Elvis Rocks. But He's Not the First 2010-03-12T14:25:00Z

When a few notes of a blues classic, “St. James Infirmary,” are heard, they’re introducing a funeral. Review: In Netflix’s ‘Self Made,’ an Unlikely Entrepreneur 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

Seth and Carter, partners in a New York-based recording company, are obsessed with black blues musicians, the more elusive and “authentic” the better — they want the “ghosts at the edges of American consciousness.” The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Or I could pick up the guitar—the guitar is mostly for the blues. The Discovery of Roscoe Holcomb and the “High Lonesome Sound” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

“Nothing looms larger in American music than African American music,” he writes, “real, racially fantasized and one-drop-rule conjoined, from blackface minstrelsy to spirituals, ragtime, jazz, blues, rock, soul, hip-hop and E.D.M.” Touring American Pop Music by Way of the Writers Who Have Addressed It 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

A mere mortal with the stay-at-home blues might push herself to invite a friend over to watch TV; Rhimes pushes herself to appear on TV. Shonda Rhimes' 'Year of Yes' puts positive spin on simplistic self-help solution 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

And then like after about eight bars, he went, wait a second — and I said, yeah, you can very much play the blues. Chick Corea, the Master Mixer of Jazz’s Past and Future 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

All of those songs featured cleanly defined, easily sung melodies, with hints of soul and blues at the core. Christine McVie, of Fleetwood Mac, Is Dead at 79 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

The other is a series of lavenders and blues whose soft optical buzz hovers somewhere between Chinese silk and Chinese landscape painting. Art Review: ?Andy Warhol, The Last Decade? at Brooklyn Museum 2010-06-17T21:24:00Z

“Turnaround” From “Tomorrow Is the Question!,” his last recording session before moving to New York, an original blues song that stayed in Mr. Coleman’s live repertory to the end. Ornette Coleman’s Greatest Hits 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Presumably the reds, blues and greens felt the same, which turned us, though separated, into a kind of community. Review: The Many Unusual Stages of ‘Fefu and Her Friends’ 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

His own R&B holds on to the grit of the blues amid modern production on his album “New Magic,” due Sept 15 on Anti-. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 66 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

The best blues music is made by old men. When I saw the Rolling Stones play live 2012-07-10T16:21:48Z

He organized dances at his graduate school and managed the Charlatans, one of the first groups to combine rock, folk, country, jug band and blues influences in what became known as the San Francisco sound. Rock Scully, Grateful Dead’s Manager Who Put the Band on Records, Dies at 73 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z

This recording captures him playing two long original blues in his late style. An Art Pepper jazz retrieval, two Souzas and one from The Physics 2012-08-27T20:58:04Z

Seagal and his blues band took to the stage at a bikers' show in the city of Sevastopol, where Russia's Black Sea Fleet is based. Steven Seagal plays gig in Crimea 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

That's close to where the band, which formed in 1962, began performing at local venues with American blues as a major inspiration. Rolling Stones to release new album in December 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

"When I was nine, I used to sing the blues in my bedroom in Swansea," says Cerys Matthews. Cerys Matthews – review 2012-12-20T18:17:00Z

Songs on the program like the spiritual “Two Wings” and the blues “Route 66,” buoyant as they seem, are nonetheless about escape. Immigrants Created American Music. A New Festival Tells Their Stories. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

His advice to young blues guitarists who want a career like him? Joe Louis Walker, the blues and beyond 2012-06-06T21:49:00Z

“She had a beautiful voice on the lower side and a perfect knowledge of blues and gospel singing,” Mr. Hyman said in an interview on Thursday. Carrie Smith, Singer in ‘Black and Blue,’ Dies at 86 2012-05-27T05:16:12Z

His most recent, “Still On the Road to Freedom,” was released in August 2012 and incorporated a range of styles from rock to blues to jazz to funk. Rock Guitarist Alvin Lee, 68, Dies 2013-03-07T06:06:58Z

King and Keb Mo are among an A-list of artists who will perform at the White House Feb. 21 to celebrate blues music and recognize Black History Month. Jagger, B.B. King others to perform at White House 2012-02-13T21:49:13Z

Bland’s was a brilliant example of artistic assimilation, taking the best from the blues, R&B, gospel and the pop mainstream to form a vocal style that was unmistakably his own. The Thrill is Gone: Remembering Bobby “Blue” Bland 2013-06-25T15:31:59Z

Three band members share lead vocals, each with distinctive style: Mensa as feverish rapper, Cunningham as robust blues shouter, and Stewart with a more sultry jazz-pop approach. Kids These Days rising fast 2011-09-21T05:37:00Z

Next to him, Kidman, a study in tailored shades of blues that manage to capture the complexity of those inky, indigo eyes, sits ramrod straight. Kidman finds power in wrenching 'Rabbit Hole' 2010-12-22T23:19:00Z

Mr. Kantner drafted Mr. Kaukonen, whom he had known at San Jose, who in turn provided the group with its name, taken from a blues name a friend had given him: Blind Lemon Jefferson Airplane. Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane Dies at 74 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

I needed that experience, coming out of blues and rock and living with Bloomfield. Joe Louis Walker, the blues and beyond 2012-06-06T21:49:00Z

Edward, a graduate of the University of London, prefers rhythm and blues and dreams of writing a series of popular history books. Review: In ‘On Chesil Beach,’ a Honeymoon Gone Wrong 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

The blues were why I started to play guitar. Grammy nominee Gaby Moreno on genre bending, her Bowie tribute and how the blues taught her English 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Speaking of avatars of alienation, K moves through his days with the unhurried shuffle and downcast baby blues of Ryan Gosling. Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tries to Honor the Original and to Slip Free of It 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

He’s an advocate of throwing it all together: funk, Cuban grooves, city blues, early hip-hop. Live Jazz: 5 April Standouts, From Andrew Cyrille to Linda May Han Oh 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

The hardware involved is bare-bones: a 1955 standing microphone, of a kind once regularly used by jazz, blues and pop singers. Art Review: ‘Soundings’ Features Art With Audio Elements 2013-08-08T20:41:20Z

“She was singing blues but also Miles Davis, lots of different music, and I didn’t know how to sit inside it,” he says. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Both Matassa and Johnson are genuine jazz singers — they improvise, they swing, they draw deeply from the blues — but they could not be more different. Review: Album releases by Greta Matassa and Kelley Johnson show two Seattle jazz singers at the top of their game 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

One problem for the Checkerboard is that some blues fans don't realize the club is still open and that it only changed locations, said spokeswoman Cyrius Estevez. Legendary Chicago blues club ailing and wailing 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

"She was absolutely fantastic and I hadn't realized she'd turned back to the blues," he said. Cyndi Lauper singing the blues at NO's Jazz Fest 2011-05-06T13:01:05Z

The music encompasses nearly every style imaginable: blues, R&B, gospel, Cajun, Zydeco, Afro-Caribbean, folk, Latin, rock, rap, contemporary and traditional jazz, country, bluegrass and everything in between. Foo Fighters, Lizzo, Ludacris to play New Orleans Jazz Fest 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

Its music drew from urban and rural sources, from deep blues and Latin rhythms, from jazz and the avant-garde. No Song Left Unsung, Grateful Dead Plays Its Last 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Drafted, he met his most important influence in the army, the guitarist who goes by the name Abdi, who introduced Namjoo to the blues. Exiled Iranian singer Mohsen Namjoo makes Northwest debut 2011-02-24T20:40:10Z

Watson, a singer of bluegrass, country, blues and gospel music, is famous for his flatpicking style on the guitar and his interpretations of folk songs from bygone eras. Folk artist Doc Watson's responsive after surgery: agent 2012-05-25T22:38:33Z

The set was about evenly divided between blues songs and “Inspiration Information”-era tracks. Concert review: Shuggie Otis at Lincoln Hall 2013-04-18T06:16:00Z

My Profile of Guy this week depends not only on conversations with him but with many books that constitute the vast blues library. A Buddy Guy Soundtrack 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Now as then, the instrument was put to use on “Maggie’s Farm,” an electric blues tune that signaled Mr. Dylan’s repudiation of the early-1960s folk revival, which had claimed him as its own. Newport Folk Festival Pays Tribute, With a Jolt, to Dylan and Seeger 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Influenced by the blues/gospel, musicians were reacting against the trend to intellectualise jazz. Profile of jazz maestro Herbie Hancock: From the archive, 12 Feb 1975 2013-02-12T07:00:00Z

He started out on the circuit in New Orleans and, after returning home briefly, he ventured out west to Los Angeles, where he played with a rhythm and blues band. Jazz Saxophonist Ornette Coleman Dies At 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Soon Mr. Mummolo, a blues and rock ’n’ roll fan, introduced Ms. Wright, whose musical tastes ran to hip-hop and pop, to his favorite music documentary, “Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll,” about Chuck Berry. A Romantic Turnaround for Two Political Scientists 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

“It’s taking the blues to a further place,” Mr. Allman said. A New Start And a Gumbo Of Old Sounds 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z

Texas blues legend Johnny Winter, who died at 70 last week in Switzerland, was supposed to perform at the “Rock ‘n’ Blues” event alongside brother Edgar Winter at the Rockland-based festival on Aug. 2. Maine event to become tribute to Johnny Winter 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

In his colorful autobiography, “Really the Blues,” published in 1946, Mezzrow recalled his early ambition to “be a musician, a Negro musician, hipping the world about the blues the way only Negroes can.” Mezzrow Seeks to Fill a Jazz Niche in the Village 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Bass-playing also gave Mingus an insight into the low sonorities and inner hamonies of jazz composition, and his melodic approach was profoundly influenced by the blues and gospel music of his childhood. Great moments in jazz: Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 2010-09-06T15:46:00Z

Contemporary blues musicians often lament that canonizing the music results in the public perception that it’s a dead art form. Two planned museums brighten the future of the blues 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Rush believes the racial awakening triggered by the murder of George Floyd, and reinforced by the pandemic, leaves him well positioned to reach a public primed to hear the blues with fresh ears. Bobby Rush Lived the Blues. Six Decades On, He’s Still Playing Them. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

He played an excellent set at the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in Harlem a few years ago with Junior Mance, one of his New School teachers, singing blues and standards, but that wasn’t quite him. Pop: José James’s ‘No Beginning No End’ 2013-01-18T23:37:45Z

This benefit album aims to raise money for refugee projects, but also provides a rousing new compilation of desert blues, with unreleased or rare tracks from Tuareg musicians from Mali, Niger and Algeria. Various Artists: Songs for Desert Refugees – review 2012-07-19T21:30:01Z

She went on to make several other blues recordings for the label, including “Chocolate Candy Blues,” before joining forces with Mr. Baker in 1956. Sylvia Robinson, Pioneering Producer of Hip-Hop, Dies at 75 2011-09-30T04:57:17Z

Along with Chess, Specialty and other relatively small labels, Modern recorded, pressed and distributed some of the most influential blues and rhythm and blues records of the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. Joe Bihari, Who Put Early R&B on Record, Dies at 88 2013-12-12T02:47:20Z

That urgent, charged performance was by Janis Joplin, the rock and blues artist of the 1960s counterculture; the recording came with a note by the representative, Michael Strunsky, who wrote simply, “Be bold.” Arts & Leisure: It Ain?t Necessarily ?Porgy? 2011-08-05T15:00:00Z

And all of that life is in their music, which, thanks to Dorsey’s innovation, weds the plaint, woe and human upside of the Negro spiritual with the rhythm of the blues. ‘Say Amen, Somebody’ Will Make You Want to Sing Out 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Duke Ellington described their music as “gospel in a blues key.” Books of The Times: ‘I’ll Take You There,’ by Greg Kot 2014-02-20T13:00:01Z

They touched on every genre of music, while we are very much rhythm and blues. 'We're not the new Beatles' 2013-06-15T10:53:14Z

Rocky Hill soon followed them to Houston and began an apprenticeship with Lightnin’ Hopkins, a blues legend from the Third Ward. Texas Monthly: Finally, an Album for a Rock Star Who Never Was 2011-11-06T07:30:10Z

Soon the station wagon catches a flat and Chris realizes she doesn't have her purse, and a night of bullet dodging, gangster evading, blues singing, evil-boyfriend confronting and skyscraper scaling begins. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'Date Night'? Find more tales of harried marrieds on DVD 2010-04-08T22:41:00Z

And somehow, this earnest, often blues née country née folk-based music, so different from what this younger crowd heard on the radio and saw on television, would make profound sense to some of them.  “The Last Waltz” at 40: The Band and their classic movie speak beyond boomer nostalgia 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

That rhythm was the vessel that held the blues and the notes no one had listened to before. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

His death comes days after his brother, fellow blues artist Jimmy Johnson, died at 93. Syl Johnson, Chicago soul and blues artist, dies at 85 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

I started playing blues professionally in 1974, with an old boogie-woogie piano player, Jimmy Walker. 'Everybody knows everybody' – what the blues has given Chicago 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

The singer Carole J. Bufford’s love affair with the blues began when she was 13 years old and discovered Bessie Smith on a two-disc set, she recalled last Thursday at the Metropolitan Room. Carole J. Bufford at the Metropolitan Room 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

It recently hosted its first band in residence: Otis, a serendipitously named blues and rock group from Kentucky. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

First Came Memphis Minnie Stony Plain Memphis Minnie was the great female star of mid-20th-century blues, a tough, outspoken singer and songwriter who was also a remarkably fine acoustic and electric guitarist. Maria Muldaur: … First Came Memphis Minnie – review 2012-12-13T21:46:01Z

Next take, and two last tropes, the surrealistic title that has nothing to do with the song and the diligently, nay obsessively, worked on generic blues number. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the son of the Delta blues musician Robert Johnson retains the rights to the only two known photographs of his father and the profits from those pictures, . ArtsBeat: Son of Robert Johnson to Retain Photograph Rights 2014-02-21T16:53:39Z

In his “American in Paris” then he could be boisterous and he could be provide buoyant blues. The L.A. Phil’s opening gala at Disney Hall finds Dudamel & Co. in full jazz swing 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

Then there's the rousing desert blues of Tinariwen, who have performed alongside the Rolling Stones. Mali music ban by Islamists 'crushing culture' 2013-01-15T21:10:07Z

He claims that, as a boy, he heard fabled blues musician Robert Johnson in person. 'Last Man Standing' finds CeDell Davis growling his finest Delta blues 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Kenyans are not immune to the global juggernaut of American popular music and listen to plenty of its genres: pop, hip-hop and rhythm and blues among them. Country Music Finds a Home Far From Home, in Kenya 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Madison had become a haven for musicians who wanted to get away from the big city blues scene of Chicago three hours away. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

After two years, he dropped out and came to New York City, where Mr. Lomax introduced him to the blues singer Huddie Ledbetter, known as Lead Belly. Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 2014-01-28T06:32:10Z

And while he fashioned a beautifully restive intro to “Monk’s Mood,” his solo didn’t address the song’s internal architecture, occasionally settling for a rote blues lick. Joey Alexander, an 11-Year-Old Jazz Sensation Who Hardly Clears the Piano’s Sightlines 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

A prolific musician known for his intense guitar solos and his raspy but strong singing voice, Mr. Brooks told The Chicago Tribune in 1992 that the blues did not come naturally to him at first. Lonnie Brooks, Bluesman Who Had a Hit With ‘Sweet Home Chicago,’ Dies at 83 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

This is his first album in six years and shows he's still in impressive form, matching his thoughtful, soulful voice against an acoustic guitar style that mixes blues riffs with west African influences. Boubacar Traor?: Mali Denhou ? review 2011-03-03T22:29:01Z

The songs, with lyrics by Knowles’s frequent collaborator Jones, are all easy to listen to: Knowles smoothly melds gospel, blues and jazz with a sense of tradition and a contemporary ear. Storytelling haze shrouds the musical ‘Blackberry Daze’ 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Since people still suffer from melancholy – more likely calling it depression, the dumps or the blues – Dürer's image continues to resonate. D?rer's Melencolia I ? a masterpiece, and a diagnosis 2011-03-18T10:52:50Z

The mood darkens further here – Lynch's croon is mired deeper in dirgey, junkyard blues – and it's harder work too, which rather militates against the carefully crafted unease. David Lynch: The Big Dream – review 2013-07-13T23:05:15Z

Take a look at our photos from New Band of the Day Live, and read Paul Lester's profile on the south London blues singer here. Wireless 2012: festival preview 2012-07-03T12:15:00Z

The dark, disapproved, material was expressed elsewhere, in the blues. At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

For reasons never quite explained, the blues – both in their acoustic Delta form, and Chicago blues plugged into an amplifier – had captivated this generation of English musicians more deeply than their American counterparts. The London years 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z

Perhaps a quarter of those with winter blues develop the extreme form known as seasonal affective disorder, or Sad. Winter blues? A practical guide to getting more light in your life 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

But there's also his Tin Pan Alley flair with stand-alone tunes, most notably the anthemic "Seasons of Love" and "Another Day," and the torchy blues "Take Me as I Am." 'Rent': Young, robust cast sells 'Rent' revival 2012-07-27T21:03:06Z

The deployment of music, mostly traditional songs and blues, is likewise erratic. Review: In ‘A Soldier’s Play,’ an Endless War Against Black Men 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

She released a series of albums on local and international record labels, and frequently performed in Europe and at blues festivals around the country. Gospel, blues artist Marva Wright dead at 62 2010-03-23T21:23:00Z

The band, formed in Ohio 10 years ago, cite numerous influences in different genres from hip-hop to rock and blues. Black Keys' "El Camino" hits right note with critics 2011-12-06T23:15:18Z

Other times you can feel these blues harmonies — with a deep religious underpinning. An American Leads the Odesa Philharmonic to Berlin 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

In the lineage of the Last Poets and Oscar Brown Jr., these proto-raps embody Scott-Heron’s maxim that “there are at least 500 shades of the blues.” Greg Kot: Gil Scott-Heron, the essential recordings 2011-05-29T16:14:00Z

Maybe it’s the election blues, but something about dry-humping grandma’s corpse and later finding out that one’s future is controlled by those in the thrall of a mass delusion isn’t that funny. Saturday Night Live: even Trump smooching Putin couldn't hide the election blues 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

On a positive note, while this visual blues opus won’t make you feel better about life, it might provide an example of how not to adult. Smart Watch: Let’s look at men via portrayals in “Mr Inbetween,” “Insecure” and other T... 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

There is a tight sense of community among Chicago’s blues musicians. 'Everybody knows everybody' – what the blues has given Chicago 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Luther and Cody Dickinson, who lead the North Mississippi All-Stars, immersed themselves in Mississippi traditions reaching back to Delta blues and rural fife-and-drum music; those backbeats and guitar licks drive their own songs and jams. New Year’s Eve: A Procrastinator’s Guide to Music and Comedy Shows 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

“He likes it because it feels like the blues clubs he started out in,” Hastings said. Van Morrison takes his music home with concert near Belfast 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Jones’s love for blues set a fire burning in the band’s soul, even as it shifted gears musically. ‘The Stones and Brian Jones’ Review: Sympathy for a Founding Rocker 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z

Eric Satie played as key a role in ambient music as Robert Johnson does in the history of the blues. Readers recommend: classical songs – results 2012-06-14T09:21:59Z

Tangibly, the Rolling Stones recently rediscovered a similar liberation in the blues. In Jazz, Listen to the Timeless Elders 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Deep strings take us on a Wagnerian descent and we are back to the original blues theme, and the original declaration, “I read the news today, oh boy.” From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

If there were an awards ceremony that symbolized the world collectively succumbing to the pandemic blues, the 78th Golden Globes was it. The Golden Globes' cringey attempts at diversity signaling was a joke 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

At the time, bulky but portable recording technology had recently made it possible to collect music performed outside professional studios by farmers, prisoners, fishermen, backwoods fiddlers and itinerant blues singers. Review: ‘Folk City’ at the Museum of the City of New York 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

This is her seventh annual gathering of musicians for a concert offering funk, blues, reggae, calypso and other global genres. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

When he learned that there was already a blues guitarist there known as Guitar Junior, he changed his professional name to Lonnie Brooks. Lonnie Brooks, Bluesman Who Had a Hit With ‘Sweet Home Chicago,’ Dies at 83 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Ailey’s masterful 1960 ballet “Revelations,” which draws on the sorrows and jubilation of African American spirituals, gospel and blues from the “blood memories” of his Texas childhood, is considered a cultural treasure. What made Mr. Ailey Mr. Ailey? New documentary offers a fuller picture of the modern dance pioneer. 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

He used wide panels of Moroccan blues and reds on some fronts, small red pompoms in a V design on others, along with shaggy fringe on heavy white knit tunics. Freedom in fashion startups for up and comers 2012-02-17T19:57:11Z

As the blues revival reached its peak in the 1970s and 1980s, Mr. Cotton often appeared in concert or on records with younger rock-and-roll stars influenced by his music. James Cotton, hard-blowing harmonica master of the blues, dies at 81 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

“From its inception, rock ‘n’ roll has had deep roots in rhythm & blues and country music. Rock Hall of Fame to Dolly: Voters will decide if you’re in 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

But even as a precocious blues guitarist and a budding young singer-songwriter, she had maturity on her mind. Music Review: Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples at the Beacon 2012-06-22T23:54:20Z

I somehow knew American blues existed before I even heard it. A Q&A with actor and musician Hugh Laurie 2012-05-30T22:52:06Z

Sunny Side Up saw Nutini jettison the James Blunt- and James Morrison-style anaemic soul of his debut album, These Streets, in favour of a more maverick concoction of folk, blues and, primarily, Celtic soul. Paolo Nutini 2010-04-11T21:05:00Z

Modal melodies and intricate guitar-picking linked him to folk songs and blues. New Music: The Dude Sings 2011-08-15T22:07:21Z

The singer noted for her pixie voice and Brooklyn sass was all about the blues for much of her well-received Zoo Tunes concert. Review: Cyndi Lauper proves she knows how to have fun with the blues 2010-09-03T18:49:00Z

In the United States, “folk music” has often been reduced to a lily-white realm despite foundational contributions by people of color in the blues, banjo music, zydeco and jug bands, to name just a few. How to Handle the Hate in America’s Musical Heritage 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

Bey, a former art educator for the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, writes music that fuses blues, reggae, jazz and Afrobeats, delving into topics like Black womanhood, generational trauma and romance. Brooklyn Museum Celebrates 25 Years of First Saturdays 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

They were the prime influence along with skiffle, which sort of bridged that gap between blues and rock. “He stabbed a fork into my hand”: Dave Davies on The Kinks’ brotherly love 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

Chevonne Dixon is one of the first teachers in the state to incorporate the blues into science, math, social studies and English lessons. Mississippi embraces its blues in schools 2013-12-27T03:27:30Z

On his solo albums, Mr. Morrison sang flirtations, dance invitations, philosophy and social commentary in tunes that drew on funk, ballads, jazz, blues, rock, reggae and Latin styles. Junie Morrison, a Funk Mastermind, Dies at 62 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

On the tune that started the set — “S.K.J.” by Milt Jackson — Mr. Sands addressed the blues with a mixture of ease and agitation, often coloring just outside the frame. Music Review: Christian McBride at Village Vanguard - Review 2011-11-30T23:30:42Z

During large periods of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the hums and cries from old Negro spirituals evolved to become the foundation for blues music. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

“They didn’t know about the blues,” he said 40 years after the fact. B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Charters’s engaging writing style, coupled with the scant information available, lent an aura of mystery to the music’s practitioners and inspired others to track down many neglected blues performers including Estes and White. Samuel Charters, influential blues historian and record producer, dies 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Rather than write a song in her familiar country-pop mode, she's written an electric blues, its pealing guitar licks a hilarious and pointed reminder of Mayer's style. Taylor Swift is angry, darn it 2010-10-23T00:16:00Z

Though it has been represented on the global stage for decades, assouf — an invention of Tuareg musicians that blends rock, blues and African folk music — has a notable new ambassador in Mdou Moctar. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

He is most famous as the singer for the White Stripes, the red-and-white-clad Detroit duo that played a stripped-down, punked-up take on Delta blues; their gold and platinum records adorned the walls. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z

He was connected by birth to the land where blues began — his older cousin was first-generation country blues singer Booker "Bukka" White — and helped refine the music for mass consumption. B.B. King built a bridge to the blues for the world 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The book’s color palette, strong on grays and pale blues, conveys its honest yet hopeful depiction of its young narrator’s situation. Picture Books That Bring Black Heroes to Life 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

His biceps are thick, his face is covered in rough stubble, and his baby blues are fixed in the thousand-yard stare of a man who has seen some terrible things. Movie Review: ?The Lucky One,? Based on the Nicholas Sparks Novel 2012-04-19T14:00:00Z

The awe that accompanied his many mentions of departed blues legends, and the fervor of his performance, showed that Hammond's passion the blues still runs deep and strong. Blues legend Hammond packs in Old Town School 2011-01-31T15:50:00Z

Early episodes will focus on lobstermen and Delta blues musicians. Ty Pennington to host new HLN series 2013-01-02T18:17:08Z

With his guidance, I earned a Certificate in Rock and Roll Studies for my analysis of early folk and blues music. How I wrote a song with Bob Dylan: A 57-year collaboration about my home state of Wisconsin 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Designer Alison Giese infuses the space with a mixture of cool blues and crisp whites, working around Davis’s rental restrictions by using temporary wallpaper. How to refresh a small, urban studio on a tight budget 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Rock music – unlike the folk and blues it came from – has always been aspirational and its rebel stance has often translated into materialism and narcissism. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z

The set suggested a return to the guitarist’s earliest days -- at age 15, he was already developing a reputation as a stellar blues soloist while playing in his father’s Los Angeles-based big band. Concert review: Shuggie Otis at Lincoln Hall 2013-04-18T06:16:00Z

With barely a second of silence after the song’s final notes, Springsteen then starts banging out the blues on his guitar and singing a dark and bitter version of “Born in the U.S.A.” Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

And he’s been a blues player ever since,” Guy said. Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy looks back on a special career 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Also connecting were Kids These Days, a mostly teenaged Chicago octet that shifts among styles -- hip-hop, soul, funk, rock, blues, even jazz -- with the seamless agility of a top DJ. Lollapalooza closes on high note 2011-08-08T02:22:00Z

From there Mr. Winter’s own albums increasingly focused on the blues. Johnny Winter, Virtuosic Blues Guitarist, Dies at 70 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Plot A play with music about a young black woman in Depression-era Memphis who longs to sing the blues. My First Produced Play? Ah, I Remember It Well. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

They’ve got the quiver and shading of great Romantic piano, with Duke Ellington’s panoramic blues folded in. The Playlist: Christine and the Queens’ Clever Pop, and 8 More New Songs 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

He arrived, as Rolling Stone headlined an early feature, as “The Chosen One,” expected to help revive the blues and serve as a much-needed guitar hero. Gary Clark Jr. was supposed to save the blues. But the guitarist would rather channel Curtis Mayfield. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

Specter and his band were joined for several songs by Specter's frequent collaborator Jimmy Johnson, who sang in one of the sweetest voices in the blues and traded lean, biting licks with Specter's burred filigrees. Blues remain vital at Chicago Blues fest 2011-06-12T12:41:00Z

A music as steeped in history as blues does not fare well in this setting. Can blues music survive the 21st Century? 2011-06-03T15:46:00Z

In the festival's third section, the Smithsonian's planned National Museum of African American History and Culture has coordinated a large rhythm and blues program on the mall, featuring numerous performers, songwriters and radio personalities. Smithsonian Folklife Festival opens on mall in DC 2011-06-30T21:51:10Z

We can still find the blues inside the nightclubs, dive-bars and guitar shops, where’s it’s expected, but we might happen upon something more vital if we start listening for it everywhere else. The thrill is gone. So is B.B. King. Now what happens to blues music? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Happily, the risk has yielded the reward of a fresh, hip 90-minute riff that resonates as a starkly surreal dirge and a life-affirming blues. Oregon Shakespeare Fest, 2013: the Bard, and more 2013-07-24T22:08:57Z

Born and raised in Memphis, with a love for Delta blues, Ms. Fullman played clarinet in the school band for just one year. A Composer and Her (Very) Long String Instrument 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

“There is a place past the blues I never want to see again,” he sang later on the album. Perspective | If a human being was capable of feeling it, David Berman could write it and render it profound 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Her mercurial, dramatic songs aren’t tied to the standard forms or plain rhetoric of the blues or pop. New Music: New Albums by Trixie Whitley and Kris Kristofferson 2013-01-28T22:36:50Z

Big Brother and the Holding Company was among the first and most successful exponents of the so-called San Francisco sound, an adventurous mix of folk, blues and rock influences fueled by psychedelic drugs. Sam Andrew, Guitarist for Big Brother and the Holding Company, Dies at 73 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Bowls, vases, incense burners, jewelry boxes and garden stools made of copper alloys have surfaces covered with intricate mosaic patterns and imagery in pure blues, reds, yellows and greens. Art Review: When Enamel Wares Adorned China?s Imperial Courts 2011-02-17T21:29:31Z

And it’s always a treat to hear primo blues belter Francine Reed, who comes on strong with the apt tune: “OK, All Right, You Win.” Teatro ZinZanni deals the casino-themed ‘Lucky in Love’ 2013-06-20T21:55:06Z

The club’s name refers to the the birthplace of the blues: Legend has it that early blues guitarist Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at a crossroads in the Mississippi Delta. Mississippi blues promoter and raconteur Bill Luckett dies 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hawkins drew deeply from the heavy blues sounds of South Louisiana to create a classic of what is sometimes called swamp rock. Dale Hawkins, Dies at 73; Rockabilly Author of ?Susie Q? 2010-02-18T07:08:00Z

It’s also a tremendous tool for coping with the holiday blues, not only due to its subject matter but because of its platform, flawed as Facebook is. “Sorry for Your Loss,” an honest and real show about grief, actually uses Facebook for good 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Alvin’s pedigree goes back 30 years, including tenures in bands such as the Blasters, X and the Knitters with a deep affinity for blues, country, soul and early rock ‘n’ roll. Concert review: Dave Alvin at City Winery 2012-08-22T06:22:00Z

Stick to dark blues and let real wear do the job of distressing your trousers. 2010-01-21T16:43:00Z

His palette of blues and ivory is calm and reassuring, with shading and shadows subtly distinguishing between the real and the not real. Jenny Han’s new YA novel and other best kids’ books for September 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

With a palette of photographic black, white and gray, accented in blues and reds, he created weightless abstractions; solids and voids intersect in optical puzzles. Knud Lonberg-Holm: ‘The Invisible Architect’ 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

It will include performances by Texas blues guitarist Gary Clark Jr. and others. Stevie Wonder to perform Super Bowl weekend 2013-01-25T20:44:15Z

Huge, the canvas displays a sense of rhythm and color nuances in purplish reds and blues that possibly helped it to rise so high. The Fever Bubbling in Contemporary Art Sales 2011-11-11T14:00:10Z

"He just did everything. So on this record, there's 12 different examples of how to play the blues." Dave and Phil Alvin, formerly of the Blasters, resurrect partnership 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

But when they're driving through the Sterophonics-like Lockdown or the 60s blues rock of Say Demesne, there's little to remind you the guitarist is one of the icons of British rock. Johnny Marr – review 2013-03-15T17:33:27Z

When “The Nutcracker” is over, Glover often warns parents, their kids will get the blues. ‘The Nutcracker’: Fairies and tulle onstage, total nuts backstage 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

She is all but absent from one chapter about the history of blues and minstrel singing, but we learn more than we could ever want to know about vaudeville stars Eva Tanguay and Sophie Tucker. ‘Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth’ by John Szwed 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

“I realized that I’m too optimistic to play the blues,” he said. John C. Reilly’s Group in Lincoln Center Songbook Series 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

In the warm days of summer, big balloons of delicate blooms in blues, pinks, purples, and white seem to float up like magic from the lush green foliage of these shrubs. Gardening 101: French Hydrangeas 2010-05-26T17:49:00Z

On Friday night, both Mr. Dylan and the Stones had another 1960s keepsake in common, too: a deep grounding in the blues. Review: Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, Electric, Not Just Nostalgic, at Desert Trip 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

And while it was a very traditional homage to the blues, there were kids that thought it sounded so different that it was something new.” Texas Monthly: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’s ‘Texas Flood’ Is Rereleased 2013-01-26T23:15:09Z

Backed by guitar and keyboards, her set mixed desert blues with R&B and easy-going Western pop, but she was at her best when she played the ardin, the ancient Mauritanian harp. Womad festival 2013-07-29T09:54:17Z

“They wanted to hear what you had. And if they liked it, they didn’t care whether you’re black or white. We thought it was the blues, and they used to call it rock ’n’ roll. Rose Marie McCoy, a Songwriter for Rock, Pop and Jazz Legends, Dies at 92 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

A brother-in-law taught him piano, leading to a style that mixed the classic New Orleans sound with blues, country and Cajun music. Fats Domino, rock 'n' roll pioneer, dead at 89 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

He also collected dozens of diddley bows, the one-stringed instrument of West African origin heard in old Southern blues recordings, handmade slingshots and toy plows, antique kimonos and Plains Indian rawhide pouches called parfleches. Art: Jim Linderman Collects It All, Vintage Sleaze to Baptism Photos 2012-02-12T15:28:58Z

Indeed, nobody whose knowledge of the blues runs any deeper than a Time-Life commercial could have mistaken Ulmer’s “Are You Glad to Be in America?” for it. At Strathmore, James Blood Ulmer delivers songs both accessible and scintillating 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

Included are two tunes each about Santa, Christmas lights and the holiday blues. Get in the holiday mood with Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

It's also mostly desert, so there's more than a trace of the desert blues in his singing. Can opera singers sing pop ? and vice versa? 2011-07-28T22:00:03Z

In the blues, Rocky would call that searching for ‘the wrong ways to get right.’ Texas Monthly: Finally, an Album for a Rock Star Who Never Was 2011-11-06T07:30:10Z

“The blues means something; it’s not just foolishness.” Forty-year careers: 13 artists who are still great after four decades 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

His style wasrhythm and blues based but completely unorthodox in its approach to structure, rhythm and key. Captain Beefheart obituary 2010-12-18T01:16:24Z

The majority of the songs are jazz and blues obscurities reasonably well performed. Nellie McKay Plays the Drag King Billy Tipton at 54 Below 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Like Mr. Dylan’s other 21st-century albums, “Tempest” feels live and rootsy, vamping along in the zone where blues, country and folk intersect. New Music: BOB DYLAN, review 2012-09-10T16:28:05Z

In a chill-inducing, ensemble rendition of "Trouble in Mind," historical and personal angst are distilled into a classic blues. 'Pullman Porter Blues' carries pungent blues and heavy melodrama 2012-10-05T20:06:04Z

Upon hearing the blues for the first time as a young child grappling with a confusing home life, Eric Clapton was stunned. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars’ and ‘Roots’ 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

A 68-foot-long work in which sketches of landmarks, sea creatures and symbols float on an ocean of blues and purples, it was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip while they were touring Australia. John Olsen, Who Helped Revolutionize Australian Art, Dies at 95 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Auction said Friday the collection privately held by the late American blues artist Tony Glover, a longtime Dylan friend and confidante, was sold Thursday to a bidder whose identity was not made public. Dylan papers, including unpublished lyrics, sell for $495K 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

Murray made his mark by reengaging with the older, more lyrical styles of Don Byas and Ben Webster, and he built new room in the avant-garde for blues humor and playful ironies. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Buddy Guy, who is 74, is considered one of the most influential blues guitarists of modern times, having influenced everyone from Stevie Ray Vaughn to Jimi Hendrix.   ArtsBeat: Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival Announces Lineup 2012-03-21T04:01:29Z

She loved all kinds of music; in private settings, she'd give scorching renditions of jazz and blues standards, and she declared herself a fan of Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder, among others. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z

Dominic Cooke's sleek production has moments of inventive staging: characters warble their woes into mics as if they were singing the blues. Privates on Parade; In the Republic of Happiness; The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-16T00:06:01Z

June grew up in eastern Tennessee, a part of the state often described as a meeting point between different musical traditions: blues, gospel, Appalachian folk. Valerie June’s Music Is a Reminder That Life Goes On 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Buddy Guy, 83, is a Grammy Award-winning blues guitarist and singer. Blues legend Buddy Guy says that in a lifetime of playing guitar, he’s still learning 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Fellow blues singer Bobby “Blue” Bland, who had known and idolized Mr. King since their respective youths in Memphis, did two live albums with him in the late 1970s. B.B. King, Mississippi master of the blues, dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

“They don’t call me the hardest-working woman in blues, soul, funk and gospel for nothing,” Lady A says with a big, easy laugh — the kind usually heard sitting around in an old friend’s kitchen. Seattle’s Lady A confronts white privilege in battle with country stars and beyond 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Jagger-Richards & Co. also once more indulged their youthful passion for American blues and R&B at the show’s end. Rolling Stones reunite with their more dangerous past at 'secret' L.A. show 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

As a kid in Wales, she started writing blues instrumentals after Nirvana led her to Lead Belly. The Face of Solo Guitar Is Changing. It’s About Time. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

Ry Cooder’s been called a lot of things: A “musician’s musician” and a “musical archeologist;” a virtuoso of rock and blues guitar; and an explorer of international styles. ArtsBeat Blog: Q. and A.: Ry Cooder on Woody Guthrie, Politics and a New Album 2011-10-19T01:17:50Z

“Most of the blues in nature are not real blues because they are all mostly made from the way light reflects from objects.” It’s Not Every Day We Get a New Blue 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

“I’m So Sorry” buries a solid blues song under a mountain of needless distortion. Imagine Dragons’ new album is good, even if no one will admit it 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

"But the blues aren't a science, and the blues can't be broken down like mathematics. The blues are a mystery, and mysteries are never as simple as they look." B.B. King built a bridge to the blues for the world 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Any aficionado of the blues harmonica can be glad there is a Lee Oskar. Bumbershoot Day Two topped by Tony Bennett 2012-09-03T02:04:03Z

There’s the vulnerability and passion of bedrock soul in the vocals, the dynamics of the blues and the fury of garage-punk in the quartet’s music. Alabama Shakes: No Fear 2012-03-07T23:29:00Z

Blues musician Mark Robinson, hailing from Tennessee, kicks off the festival at 3 p.m., followed by unrelated blues musician Tad Robinson at 4:30 p.m. Music festival to honor Logansport’s Med Flory 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

On “Bugs,” Evans also demonstrated a deep knowledge of jazz’s folk idiom: His solo spilled without fuss into sublime blues work. Review | The Bad Plus 2.0 sounds as sublime as the 1.0 version 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

Climbing effortlessly through whole tones, on the backdrop of baritone blues shouts, we levitate into ethereal pleasantries. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Her son, Jack, is now 21 and a blues guitarist in a band called the Dough Rollers, which toured with Bob Dylan last summer. Magazine Preview: Ellen Barkin Is No Uptown Girl 2011-04-22T14:15:12Z

At this point if you haven't caught the references, I'm talking about Dungeons & Dragons, truly the best saving throw against the pandemic blues going. Dungeons & Dragons is truly the best saving throw to escape the pandemic doldrums 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z

His range, from minimalist melody lines, through choppy Hendrixian chord voicings all the way up to 11 with wailing metal tinged blues, gives him the edge over many in the list. Chilis star is modern guitar hero 2010-04-09T18:02:00Z

The music is an amalgamation of Shakespearean-era Renaissance and early American — banjo, blues and work songs — joined occasionally by Ms. Williams’s poetry. What if Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Told Their Love Story? What if It Were a Ballet? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Their primary contribution was the 12-bar blues, which introduced the city's white residents to the sounds and rhythms of the Mississippi Delta. How Minneapolis made Prince 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

This track has two musical sections: a querying refrain, with a tweaked blues melody that lodges quizzically between major and minor, and a skating section of crisp swing. The Playlist: The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar Join Forces, and 15 More New Songs 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

The first chunky and smeary saxophone phrases on the self-titled opening track of “Night Dreamer” tell you all you need to know: this is blues music. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

He dug into bottleneck blues first, then found his musical voice with the Weissenborn lap slide guitar, encouraged by his grandfather. Ben Harper and his mom roam the store that was a childhood home 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

Williams’s transformation continues the modern tradition of viewing “The Tempest” as a parable of colonization but reflects the allegory in American mirrors: the slave passage, Jim Crow, the blues, Holiday’s own troubled life. Bring on the ‘Stormy Weather’: In Series does Shakespeare by way of Billie Holiday 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

The three musicians, frustrated by the creative limitations of their existing gigs, formed Cream in 1966 as an outlet to explore the further reaches of the blues, and released debut "Fresh Cream" later that year. Jack Bruce, Cream bassist, dies at 71 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues. President Obama Remembers B.B. King 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The Chess brothers kept saying how I was their first soul singer, that I was taking their label out of the old Delta blues, out of rock and into the modern era. Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in Calif. 2012-01-20T16:40:14Z

There will be rugs on the terrazzo floors and more color everywhere: grays, blues, greens and golds. Eleven Madison Park Plans a Makeover and a Summer Pop-Up 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

For the decorating scheme, Pitts used lots of blues, yellows and a sand color. Inside a Gibson Island getaway

Will you dig deeper into the old classifications and consider yourself a lifer with, say, blues or classical music? Seeking Genuine Discovery on Music Streaming Services 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Further on is the historic blues town of Clarksdale, one of the municipalities that has taken down the flag. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, from Australia, clearly don’t take themselves entirely seriously, but they tore into their hopped-up boogie drone, topped with blues harp. Eras Mix Among 1,300 Groups at CMJ Music Marathon 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. Abigail Washburn: fingerpicking good bluegrass with Chinese flavouring 2011-01-20T23:08:01Z

“How can the English know all about the blues, and we didn’t, yet it’s been right here under our noses the whole time?” Movie Review: ‘Not Fade Away,’ Directed by David Chase 2012-12-21T00:07:53Z

The decorations were all in very un-N.F.L. pinks and powder blues, and the sides involved were “Team Boy” and “Team Girl.” At Parties, Revealing a Baby?s Gender 2012-04-07T07:27:49Z

While on a visit to the UK in 1992, he recorded Big Blues from Texas, produced by the English-based blues guitarist Otis Grand. Phillip Walker obituary 2010-08-10T17:18:00Z

“If Frank Sinatra can be tops in his field, Nat Cole in his, Bach and Beethoven and those guys in theirs, why can’t I be great and known for it in the blues?” B.B. King, Mississippi master of the blues, dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Despite the lyric suggesting stasis, this gorgeous funk-infused tune, recorded with the Crusaders in 1979, demonstrates the versatility of the blues. Readers recommend: songs about repetition ? the results 2011-03-17T16:30:02Z

There is so much music here – not just blues. 'Everybody knows everybody' – what the blues has given Chicago 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Much of the start of her memoir, cowritten with David Ritz, details the Detroit blues scene. 'A Woman Like Me': Bettye LaVette's sad, celebratory memoir 2012-10-15T23:54:04Z

So did his versions of the soul singer Brook Benton’s “Endlessly” and the blues crooner Ivory Joe Hunter’s “Since I Met You, Baby.” Sonny James, Country Singer Known for ‘Young Love,’ Dies at 87 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Though Youngblood was just one year older than Hendrix, the blues shouter and the future prince of psychedelia were headed in opposite directions musically. 'Scuse me? Hendrix bandmate sues over '03 release 2010-07-13T12:01:00Z

Latterly, he had played in groups made up of blues veterans. Pinetop Perkins obituary 2011-03-23T12:11:44Z

Across the city this fall, opportunities to dance offline abound: One way to shake off the pandemic blues, even as the pandemic presses on. Together and in Person: Everybody Dance Now 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Jimmy played just about every song we knew and loved, including a lot of blues stuff and Yardbirds stuff. Corinne Bailey Rae, Sir Mark Elder and other musicians' greatest on-stage moments 2010-08-05T20:30:00Z

Played by Dylan, in one of the most virtuosic moments of his entire 50 year career, this insane addition turns what could have been another semi-forgettable blues into an indelible classic. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z