Cited as one of the first representations of black queer popular culture, Ma Rainey's sensational Prove It on Me Blues is a ...

"Beautifully Broken," Jelly Roll's third country album in four years, ... the blues is described as music that recasts America's history as one defined by surviving suffering via escapism.

Loretta Lynn’s booze-soaked, broken-hearted blues changed America for good The country star's fearless songs about the Pill, motherhood and the Vietnam war got her banned from radio – but she ...

To write “Jelly Roll Blues,” he relies heavily on the work of the father-and-son team of John and Alan Lomax, who traveled the American South in the 1930s to record black singers. Mr.