Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Nirvana

Silk Road Ensemble and Rhiannon Giddens

Gil Scott-Heron

Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three

From the album Best of Yoshida Brothers - Tsugaru Shamisen ( 2008 )

Nina Simone, Antibes, 1969.

Recorded at Parchman Farm, Mississippi State Penitentiary by Alan Lomax c. 1947-1948

The greatest break-up story ever told. By Nina Paley.

Beverly “Guitar” Watkins is probably the greatest living blues guitarist that no one has ever heard of. By Rachael Maddux.

“I had this idea that I could arrive in Macon, Georgia, via rental sedan, nose around for a day or two, and figure something out about the South, and rock music in the South, and men in the South, and men, and death, and guitars, and the Allman Brothers Band, who, in the late 1960s, engineered a new style of rock music that was deeply and earnestly influenced by rhythm & blues but also by something else—some wildness I couldn’t isolate or define or deny.” By Amanda Petrusich.

Annie Lennox

Nina Simone, Langston Hughes

Seasons Greetings /t/blues !!!

Bessie Smith. (1929)

Art Tatum’s All Stars

Clarence Carter

The FUNKIEST old time-blues-New Orleans-stompin'-banjo pickin' you may ever hear.

LaFarge writes and performs original, sometimes traditional music steeped in American blues, country and Western swing from the days when 78s ruled the record player. Watch him perform a short set at the NPR Music offices, with the help of his band The South City Three. Set List: "La La Blues" "Pack It Up" "Head To Toe" For more videos, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts

The legacy of the blueswoman transcends genre. By Jessica Machado.