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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Rolling Stones' plans (or lack thereof) have been front and center lately, but while they've yet to do much of anything this year, that hasn't kept drummer Charlie Watts from keeping busy. The ...

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 ...