Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. A still from 'The Blues Society.' Mention the historic music festivals ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Almost by the time the flames had gone out on his mangled Stratocaster and the wreckage had stopped smouldering, Jimi Hendrix’s ...

Dave Ray, an influential figure of the folk-blues scene of the 1960s who won quiet renown for his virtuoso six- and 12-string guitar work, has died. He was 59. Ray died Thursday at his home in ...

Many landmark moments in rock history have resulted from artists updating the blues in some way. In the 1960s, young English musicians were discovering and collecting recordings of American blues ...

Muddy Waters once sang: "the blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll." But it's more than rock… the blues makes a strong case for itself as the most influential sound in American music ...

• WUFT News: In 1960s Gainesville, interracial blues bands helped bridge the gap in the city's music scene. "Charles Steadham is no stranger to blues music. He has been playing the blues for years, ...

Of all the bands in the 1960s that cracked open the colors of new musical possibilities, few are as underappreciated as The Moody Blues. The Moodies are widely beloved but taken for granted. They’ve ...

When the ’60s dream soured, rock got darker, stranger, and more truthful. These 21 albums chart the moment idealism met reality ...

SCHENECTADY — The Sixties Spectacular concert Saturday night at Proctors in Schenectady focused on the AM top-40 hits of the mid-1960s. Two bands on the bill, The Grass Roots and Gary Lewis and The ...

CULTURAL ERAS rarely, if ever, fit neatly into the decades allotted to them. The 1950s, for instance, did not really shuffle off until 1963 (when according to Philip Larkin, a British poet, “sexual ...