There are few musicians as legendary, as essential to the history of their genre as Mississippi Delta bluesman Robert Johnson is to the blu...

There have always been blues guitarists on the fringe of pop music – a few of them great, most of them not quite so. By the late 1970s/early...

Sam Cooke is often forgotten during any discussion of the great R & B masters. Whether this is due to his late ‘50s break from the gosp...

Living in suburban Nashville during the early ‘80s, my first exposure to rap music was what I read in Spin magazine, who were early champio...

Fair or no, all-girl bands are judged by either the commercial success of such distaff outfits as the Go-Gos and the Bangles, or by nostalgi...

I remember – it was a couple of years ago – I was digging through a crate of CDs that a local radio station I was affiliated with at the tim...

By late 1977, Irish blues-rock guitarist Rory Gallagher had delivered six studio albums in as many years, and had toured constantly during ...

  Sixty-six years ago today, February 3rd, 1959 was “The Day the Music Died” as rock ‘n’ roll legends Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. ...

If not exactly a contemporary of British blues-rock guitarists like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, Ireland’s Rory Gallagher came of age in th...