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Forget those dolled-up, pentagram-sportin', tattooed rock 'n' rollers that comprise his audience of late — the bona fide bad-ass is up onstage. (…)

Music recorded at the Fort Valley College Folk Festival between 1941 and 1943. (…)

The weight of becoming a guitar god in the '60s never seemed to slow Clapton's creativity, though he has had some close calls while overcoming addiction and other tragedies. (…)

Child prodigy Derek Trucks is a fiery guitar slinger whose slow-burn slide style owes a lot to the legends of the blues. (…)

Blues songs with lyrics about ethnicity and nationality. (…)

Child prodigy Derek Trucks is a fiery guitar slinger whose slow-burn slide style owes a lot to the legends of the blues. (…)

Dr. John Before making his name as a major New Orleans pianist, Dr. (…)

The late Albert Collins was an important and influential blues artist with an unmistakable sound. (…)

A musical innovator in every sense of the word, John Fahey began putting out his steel-string fingerpicking records on his own Takoma label in the late '60s. (…)

Charm leaked out of Mississippi John Hurt like whiskey coming out of an old barrel. Hurt was a songwriting sharecropper and laborer who went to galvanize the early '60s Folk Revival movement. (…)