In honor of Black History Month, The Current is exploring the origins of Black music in America, what came after, and its ...
As Valentine’s Day quickly approaches, “Lorelei” serves as a glimmer of hope and love in the ice-cold winter weather. The ...
As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...
The blues is a style of music created by African Americans at the end of the 19th Century. It developed out of folk music, spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally ...