Bo Diddley was the gunslingin’, cigar-box guitar-totin’ cool cat who wrote the book of rocking R&B...

One of the brightest stars at Stax, Redding’s life was cut tragically short, but the work he left behind lives on...

The Chicago soul and gospel icon explains how Martin Luther King led her to make some of the defining songs of the civil rights era

Blues from The Big Easy has a different flavour to that made anywhere else. Tuck in to the finest cuts the city has to offer.

No Sinner frontwoman Colleen Rennison had a youthful brush with Hollywood stardom, but the allure of the blues proved too tempting…

Jerry Lee Lewis's little sister on hanging out with Elvis Presley and John Lennon, and being a rock’n’roll stalwart with an R&B soul.

Fresh from a tour with Stevie Nimmo, the British blues guitarist discusses keeping it live and hanging with his heroes.

The original JB funky diva talks new album, James Brown and the Rumble In The Jungle.

The Kentucky Headhunters overcome their phobias and pack their bags to head to Ramblin’ Man Fair.

A turbulent childhood and life on the streets were tough, but inspired by James Brown, Charles Bradley made it to the Harlem Apollo and beyond. This is his inspirational story…

New Yorker Robin McKelle comes full circle on an album that sees her up close and personal.

The man with the eye-popping live show influenced everyone from BB King to Jimi Hendrix. Here’s the music you need…

A bus driver by day and a soulful bluesman by night, all hail the new Chicago king Toronzo Cannon.

The Heat’s former rockabilly blues guitar man on Pretty Things, Motown and punk-rock memories.

Malian desert bluesman inspired by John Lee Hooker, Jimi Hendrix and his dad Ali Farka Touré.

The son of an R&B legend, guitar virtuoso Shuggie Otis followed in the footsteps of his old man Johnny Otis and did it his way. “There were depressing times,” he says. “But there were good tim

Essex singer-songwriter James Hunter was working on the railways when he found a path to blues glory under the stewardship of Van Morrison, Georgie Fame and Allen Toussaint. Now he’s one of Da

From their explosive, raw beginnings to their final R&B hurrah, Ike and Tina crossed many musical genres…

Blues just wouldn’t be the same without the wailing of the harp. Here we celebrate the people who blow the hardest…

The Wyoming-born sage behind Country Got Soul and the Country Soul Revue.

A chip off the old block, Steve Marriott’s scion launches solo career.

Having fled civil unrest in their hometown, Mali blues-punks Songhoy Blues have taken their story to the world with Music In Exile. And the world is ready to listen...

Former Shooting For Thrills frontman finally comes good with his own band

From tearing up the 100 Club with Chuck Berry to igniting anarchy on The Young Ones, the Nine Below Zero man has lively memories...