“Sinners,” set in Mississippi in 1932—and the winner of four Oscars, including for best original score—has drawn fresh attention to early blues. A few years before then, Blind Lemon Jefferson became ...

A century before Drake, Adele and Olivia Rodrigo sang their sad songs, Blind Lemon Jefferson showed the world what depression and heartache were really all about. The first male blues superstar - and ...

Deep Ellum's 150th anniversary celebration keeps rolling with two new exhibitions and a book signing by Dallas writer, filmmaker and jack-of-all-trades Alan Govenar. The African American Museum in ...

DALLAS — As Dallas' Deep Ellum neighborhood waits for its pandemic-delayed live music to return to its concert halls, bars and clubs, one of its very first voices could be making a return too. "This ...

While the presently published reviews of Blues Come to Texas are accurate in their breadth they are not so in their depth. The quixotic tale of blues historians Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick is a ...