Cleveland’s story as an early torchbearer of rhythm and blues begins in the late 1940s when this new genre of pulsating, dance-oriented music was broadcast on local stations like WJMO and WABQ. LOS ...

Back in 2007, music fan Nick Duckett walked into a record shop hoping to buy a comprehensive history of rhythm and blues on CD. To his surprise, the owner told him no such set existed at the time.

Grand Opening Launches Phase I of the Nation's Largest Outdoor Gallery Dedicated to Delta Music and Culture for the 100(th) Black History Month PINE BLUFF, Ark., Feb. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The City ...

(upbeat background music) - When I was a kid, all my cousins were musicians and I started picking up the guitar and then the terminology R&B became out. (upbeat background music) And it just affected ...

What is R&B, where’d it come from and where’d it go? An array of five-star entertainers will give a musical answer to these questions when the Manship Theatre presents the "Rhythm and Blues Revue" at ...

John Broven’s newly revised, expanded and updated Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans, originally issued as Walking to New Orleans, is the definitive, go-to source for anyone interested in the deep ...

This is part two of a two-part interview Read part one here. When you play piano, you seem possessed. Your legs are crossed, and your right leg is always swinging the rhythm. Are you aware of that?

Visitors to the 45th annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival can groove to one of the most identifiably American forms of popular music—rhythm and blues. “Rhythm and Blues: Tell It Like It Is” will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original ...

ABILENE, Texas - Organizers hope that a festival kicking off this Saturday in Abilene will become an annual event. The Key City Rhythm and Blues Festival will bring some top notch performers to town ...

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“A musical goddess,” says Delbert McClinton about Texas-born, Louisiana-raised pianist, vocalist and songwriter Marcia Ball. “Watching her is like seeing the truth,” he says. Ball is an international ...