Singer/songwriter Cedric Burnside introduces theGrio to a lesser known type of blues music. The Mississippi native — who, in 2022, nabbed a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album for his LP, “I ...

Sometimes it seems like there are only two types of blues music -- the type that influenced rock, driven by stories told from the gut about life's ups and downs, and the type that is influenced by ...

Fruteland Jackson, a Chicago-based historian, artist and author, showed students in Jefferson City schools how fun blues music can be. "Blues music has something for everyone," Jackson said. "In the ...

WHO ARE THEY: In the mid 1990s Kenny Wayne Shepherd accomplished the rather difficult task of getting blues music played on commercial radio. His debut album “Ledbetter Heights” was released in 1995 ...

June is Black Music Month, and we’re celebrating the musical accomplishments and contributions of Black artists in all the various genres. Singer/songwriter Cedric Burnside is an artist from a genre ...