A moment after writing the title of this article, up popped an image of John Lee Hooker smiling and shaking his head. "Nobody can teach you the blues. Blues is a feeling, something you have to live." ...

Singer surprises students as she returns to her teaching roots, and breaks down the importance of blues to American history. Grammy-winning artist Erykah Badu gave a group of fifth graders from St.

CHICAGO --At a club on Chicago's North Side called the Kingston Mines, everybody has the blues. This is where 3-time Grammy nominee Billy Branch carries the crowd away on his harmonica. "We wouldn't ...

Last week, the Associated Press published a piece about Chevonne Dixon, a 4th grade teacher in Mississippi who is teaching cross-curricular lessons around a topic of the utmost historical importance ...

For Mark and Barbara Armbrecht, teaching students the blues isn’t just about music and melodies. It’s about the young girl, who climbs on Barbara’s lap while she plays the blues. It’s about another ...

If you were to choose to get into blues music, where would you start? In the internet age, blues from across the decades exists for perpetuity — the good, the great and the not-so-great. How would a ...

Think of jazz, rhythm & blues, rock, reggae and hip-hop. Or, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Bob Marley and Tupac Shakur. All have one thing in common: the blues, a style of music created ...