A brilliant self-taught guitarist, Francis Hillman “Scrapper” Blackwell was a popular star in the isolated blues world of the late 1920s and...

Born in 1902 in Bentonia, Mississippi – on the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta region – Nehemiah “Skip” James was a contemporary of b...

In 1959, blues legend John Lee Hooker was at a crossroads in his career. The music industry was evolving from a singles-oriented mediu...