Blues

WBGO's Jon Kalish reports on how guitarist Stefan Grossman has carried on the fingerpicking legacy of African-American blues and gospel singer Reverend Gary Davis

Tyler Perry will debut his latest Netflix film A Jazzman’s Blues on September 23.

Dr. Augusta Palmer's upcoming documentary The Blues Society pays tribute to the artists who performed at the Memphis Blues Festival in the the late 1960's

WBGO legendary announcer, Grammy Award-winning producer, author and Blues Foundation Hall of Famer Bob Porter was a guest on SportsJam with Doug Doyle in 2008

Lucky Peterson, a keyboardist, guitarist and singer whose blues career kicked off with a novelty hit at age 5, eventually sprawling over dozens of albums…

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram is the brightest young artist erupting on the Blues scene today. He’s from Clarksdale, Miss., ground zero of the Delta blues.…

WBGO's blues hosts, Michael Bourne and Bob Porter, ring in the new year with their favorite blues tunes of 2018.Michael Bourne, host, Blues Break and…

Earlier this month it was announced that Delmark Records, a Chicago blues and jazz institution, had been sold to new owners. WBGO's Bob Porter offers a…

The blues have traveled far and wide over the last century — exerting a vast cultural influence worldwide, yielding myriad offshoots, and generating…

Rob Paparozzi is a virtuoso of the harmonica, and played a box full of harps — different sizes, different keys — when he came to WBGO for a talk on…