If you wanted to write a novel about Delta blues, you could cover a lot of ground with one main character — Pinetop Perkins. Born in 1913 in Belzoni, Miss., cousin to Elmore James and “Homesick” James ...

Sometime in the 2000s, I became hooked on an online video game called “Pac-Mondrian.” It was like “Pac-Man” — you gobbled dots while running from ghosts — but replaced that game’s grid labyrinth with ...

In the early '70s, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen had a different style than other country-influenced groups. Much of their material channeled Western swing (Bob Wills and the Texas ...

This is the best, funkiest, coolest version of Bruno Mars' ‘Uptown Funk’. End of. If you’ve never heard ‘Uptown Funk’ before, now’s the time to listen to it: Yeah, it’s a great pop tune. But not as ...

SHE swears like a sailor, vamps like hooker and sings like a diva. Bette Midler has become the perfect New York City saloon singer, and she proved it at a pair of Madison Square Garden shows over the ...

Just after 7 p.m., Bob Seeley sits down at the piano, casually opens the lid, stretches both hands over the keyboard and announces himself with a huge rumble of notes. The after-work crowd at ...

Many picturesque villages in East Texas are trying to reinvent themselves as tourist destinations for weekenders from Dallas and Houston. One such town is Marshall, which was the center of the state's ...

While the Rolling Stones ponder their next move, drummer Charlie Watts is keeping busy with his other project, the ABC and D of Boogie Woogie. The group just issued a live record and while it is a ...