The amazing new studio album from Buddy Guy is the legend's 34th, and the follow-up to 2018's Grammy-winning The Blues Is Alive and Well. Produced by songwriter/drummer Tom Hambridge, it features guests including Mavis Staples, Elvis Costello, James Taylor, Jason Isbell, and more. The album released exactly 65 years to the day that Buddy Guy arrived in Chicago on a train from Baton Rouge in September of 1957 with just the clothes on his back and his...

Defying categorization, Emeli Sande appeals to fans of pop, credible singer-songwriters, soul, dance and everything in between. She has already had an amazing 12 months as her album debuted at #1 in the U.K. in February and she has had four songs from that album chart high on the U.K. singles chart. Sande won the coveted BRIT Critics' Choice Award for 2012, awarded this past February, and in an unprecedented twist, was also nominated as Breakthrough...

Five-time Grammy winner Dr. John whips up another unique and spicy recipe of New Orleans funk and blues mixed with some boogie woogie and a dash of the spiritual, native flavor

Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It has been defined by lyrical structure, or as a progression of chords, or as a set of practices reflecting West African "tonal and rhythmic approaches," using a five-note "blues scale." He traces its roots in work and praise songs, and shows how it was...