These four incredible, powerful Howlin' Wolf songs inspired blues musicians and rock stars alike through the years.

Feel-good blues songs are more common than you might think; the genre really isn't all about being heartbroken and having ...

Bessie Smith had probably the most famous song on the flood, but there's a peculiarity to it. It was recorded before the flood. "Back Water Blues" was recorded in February 1927, before the great ...

The blues is a style of music created by African Americans at the end of the 19th Century. It developed out of folk music, spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally ...

Tying for 20th place with 60 covers each is "Get Off of My Cloud," a 1965 single, and "No Expectations" from 1968's Beggars ...

“That's going to make it sound like a blues song, rather than just, you know, continuing to riff on a single note ... “It's basically always just walking up an E7 chord or backwards. And that's the ...