Blues music arose from hardship. It offered solace. The article lists ten essential blues tracks. These songs capture raw ...

Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten was a self-taught musician who played the guitar upside down because she was left-handed. She ...

The legendary Robert Johnson, a blues icon, whose life story of struggle and talent, particularly the myth of a deal with the ...

As the story goes, Johnson met the devil at a crossroads and sold his soul in exchange for unparalleled guitar prowess. This perennial fable, rooted in American folklore and the haunting melodies of ...

“Sinners” shows a side of writer-director Ryan Coogler that we haven’t seen before. After the heartbreaking drama, “Fruitvale ...

This article was published in partnership with Scalawag, a publication centering Black folks in the South. Subscribe to its ...

The following is a conversation between Robert Daniels and Odie Henderson conducted over email about Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners, ...

In this video I build a bass guitar inspired by a video from the early days of YouTube. You can check out my inspiration for this project here (this is not the original upload, I seem to have lost it) ...

Ryan Coogler's mesmerizing Sinners is gloriously steeped in the blues: Among the most obvious nods to the form are the names ...

I saw traces of my own blood in IMAX on Easter. Watching Ryan Coogler’s Sinners on Resurrection Sunday was more of a ...

Knowing his Mississippi roots, Chess essentially wanted Waters to find for him his own Robert Johnson. Waters had other ideas ...

Bonnie Raitt became Guitar Player's first female cover star. "I hate to be called a blues singer or a folkie," she said.