Here are 16 great Delta blues artists. All are Black. Fifteen are men.

From Blind Willie Johnson to Howlin' Wolf and beyond, Paul McGuinness explores the best blues songs of all time ...

There's something haunting about Robert Johnson's voice. The blues singer-guitarist sounds at once cock-sure and frightened, giving his recordings the feel of both perspiration and a cold sweat. As I ...

The Memphis Music Hall of Fame will officially welcome a new class of inductees on Sept. 25. The latest class is led by Stax Records hitmaker Johnnie Taylor, blues icon Robert Johnson, guitarist, ...

Blues musician Robert Johnson was honored Sunday. A free public screening of "I Believe I'll Go Back Home: Robert Johnson's Copiah County Roots and Living Legacy" took place at the Two Mississippi ...

Annye C. Anderson is identified as step sister to the blues legend Robert Johnson. This is not technically correct. Her father, Charles Dodds Spencer, was Robert Johnson’s stepfather. His first ...

The long-awaited “Biography of a Phantom” unravels some of the mystery and intrigue Alicia Ault - Museums Correspondent Now available is the Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey by ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Charles “D.C.” Carnes found a fitting way to pay tribute to the late Robert Lockwood, Jr. Carnes, a longtime guitarist in Lockwood’s band, named his new album, “Delta Crossroads - ...