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Listen to an imagined set list for a supernatural juke joint featuring Albert King, Outkast, Cécile McLorin Salvant and more.
Ryan Coogler's Sinners creates a mythology all its own, but takes inspiration from the real-life legend of a blues musician and his deal with the Devil.
Ryan Coogler's Sinners is finally here and we talked to the filmmaker about what it took to bring his vampire vision to the ...
The ‘Black Panther’ director reunites with Michael B. Jordan for an ambitious, uneven movie about blues-playing and ...
Ryan Coogler’s vampire movie mines vampirism’s symbolic potential to tell a tale of exploitation and Black music in ...
Long the topic of debate as to rock 'and' roll's origins, one Delta blues legend Howlin' Wolf record has been put forward as the genre's first possible cut.
Ryan Coogler’s 1930s-era drama is an electrifying swirl of blues, bloodshed and timely commentary on the past.
Golden Shoals is a fiddle and guitar duo with a “rousing old-time-style music that’s fueled by acerbic modern-day wit” (No ...
Get ready for a night of blues-drenched rock with guitar virtuoso Alastair Greene, who performs at Bluecorn Candle Factory in ...
Clarksdale, Mississippi is often referred to as the Birthplace of the Blues, but there's more to the small northwest ...
A bloody, muscular, barrelhouse of a vampire movie that throbs like the neck of a blues guitar on fire, Ryan Coogler’s ...
The film really captures the true faces of blues and shows us that this music had nothing to do with nostalgia or record company hypes. Documentary on the Delta blues.