The genre-spanning musician discusses his new genre-scrambling album, and his optimism in the face of President Trump's ...

Gospel music is rooted in spirituals, blues, shape-note songs ... Happily, many of the older traditions - such as old-time fiddling and string band music, clog dancing, and Sacred Harp singing ...

BURFORD: Mahalia Jackson's a direct beneficiary of Apollo saying we're now going to record blues and gospel and ... of the first professional full time gospel singers, where they're traveling ...

I just play the straight nat'ral blues..." "One of these days about twelve o'clock / This old world's going to reel and rock / I belong to the band, Hallelu..." If Rory Block occasionally shaded her ...

She brought gospel blues to the masses ... one of the most celebrated and successful Black gospel singers of all time. CeCe Winans’ solo gospel career has yielded hits like “Well Alright, ...

But despite all his preparation, Devereux was skeptical when he first saw an ad for what was billed as Blues Brothers Con — a daylong gathering and concert for fans of the music side project started ...

Ella Jenkins, the prolific musician, educator, and entertainer known as the “First Lady of Children’s Folk Song,” has died.

NEW YORK (AP) — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between ... canonized classical works into blues or gospel songs, injecting them with the style ...

Ella Jenkins, the prolific, multigenerational musical pioneer who became known as the 'First Lady of Children's Music,' died ...

The Grammy Award-winner, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and multimedia powerhouse passed away Nov. 3 at his Los Angeles ...