He is credited with helping develop the English take on urban, Chicago-style rhythm and blues that played an important role in the blues revival of the late 1960s.

Nick Gravenites, a Chicago blues musician who relocated to San Francisco in the 1960s and played an important role in that city’s burgeoning rock scene, died September 18, after many months of ...

The two blues and roots music stars have known each other since they were aspiring young blues musicians in Chicago in the 1960s.

As they crisscrossed the country in the late 1960s, the likes of The Who, Cream, The Yardbirds and Buffalo Springfield famously made stops at the legendary Arlington Heights teen music club, The ...

He is credited with helping develop the English take on urban, Chicago-style R&B that played an important role in the blues revival of the late 1960s.

By the 1960s, he was traveling to Europe, where he joined the backing band of the touring American Folk Blues Festival, launched in 1962 and based in Germany.

Country bluesman Jim Brewer gigged for decades at No Exit and the Maxwell Street market, but he didn’t leave a recorded legacy equal to his importance.

If Chicago’s annual Blues Festival in June whet your appetite for more blues this summer, the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks aims to give you what you crave with “Chicago ...

In Memoriam Blues Legend John Mayall Is Dead at 90 A giant of the great British blues boom of the 1960s was a musical change-agent who revered and honored his forebears.

If the Chicago Blues Festival in June whet your appetite for more blues this summer, the Chicago Park District's Night Out in the Parks aims to give you what you crave with "Chicago Bound: The ...

John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died. He was 90.