A moody, Celtic-influenced song, "Starflower Blues" was written by Society of Broken Souls' own Lauryn Shapter, who says it's one of her (and bandmate Dennis James') favorite songs to perform live.

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

The music acknowledges the truth of trouble in the world around us and in our own hearts. To call out such despair for what it is and then to undercut it with hope is what makes the blues so powerful.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BROKEN LEVEE BLUES") SIMON: The flood of '27 was immortalized in literature and music, including this tune by blues great Lonnie Johnson. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BROKEN LEVEE BLUES") ...

Best of all, the song “United Breaks Guitars” has made it to the number one Country Western song on iTunes UK’s download chart. Meanwhile, Taylor guitars just landed themselves a PR windfall.

"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 ...