In the beginning, there was blues. It poured out of the American South on acoustic guitars and pianos and made it up north ...

The 1970s produced some of the most talented, prolific and iconic female vocalists of all time. From once-in-a-lifetime voices like Patti LaBelle and Aretha Franklin to pop culture royalty like Patti ...

While rock and roll was an evolution of early blues and R&B that rose to popularity in the 1950s and solidified as the favorite genre of the 1960s, it was in the 1970s that everything crystalized and ...

A couple of years ago, Billboard and Ultimate Classic Rock published lists of the greatest rock and roll singers ever. Billboard chose 50 and UCR picked 40 for reasons that elude the mortal man. We ...

While synths and new wave brought in the decade and glam metal closed it, there were still plenty of acts championing a blues rock sound and thriving in the 1980s. In looking back at the roots of rock ...

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The blues is a musical style that originated from the African slaves who were taken to North America (now the United States) by the European slave traders. Even though it is not known when and where ...