While ZZ Top achieved mainstream success and worldwide aclaim with the stream of hits that came from their Eliminator album in 1983, they had long been Texas blues-rock trailblazers. And it’s a ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Rock and country music fans in North Alabama have reason to celebrate as two legendary acts bring their ...

Slash has released a cover of Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor," the first single off his star-studded blues covers album Orgy of the Damned, which arrives May 17. The song features AC/DC's Brian Johnson ...

In the 1960s, most of the music on the radio was inspired by The Beatles and emerging psychedelic rock. But two brothers from the Dallas area were inspired by the guitar playing they heard in small ...

The mainstream pop world still may not be aware of it but, over the last four decades, there has been a distinctive brand of guitar-driven, blues and rock-flavored music wafting in from northwestern ...

While more emphasis was given elsewhere, these seven acts leaned into blues rock and helped it thrive in the '80s.

Somebody asked Muddy Waters what his blues meant. His reply: "Trouble." "What I meant was that the blues – from the gutbucket, alley blues, which I can offer, right straight up to the sophisticated, ...

A jam-packed week of new music releases includes a salute to one of the country’s most venerable blues venues, the return of a visionary British jazz-rap troupe and with new titles from the likes of ...