Despite blues being an inherently sad genre, when Elton John met this bluesman, he was surprised at how happy he was.

Somehow, the 1940s are almost a century away. The decade, which saw the world go to war for a second time and the fall of the German Nazis, was also an exhilarating time for music. In some ways, it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When PBS gets done broadcasting American Epic, a documentary series about the beginnings of America’s popular music recording ...