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 ...
Since the last update of this weekly R&B column, we’ve received plenty of music and news from the genre’s artists. SZA promised her new album Lana would drop before the year’s end and Khalid came out ...
“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 ...