Richards has described listening to Muddy Waters for the first time as "the most powerful music I had ever heard – the most expressive." Jagger, meanwhile, once said this music "seemed the most real ...

You can’t talk about music from this era without including Little Richard, a famed artist from Macon, Georgia. The track, "Tutti Frutti," was written by Richard and Dorothy LaBostrie and recorded in ...

The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...

Cadillac Records (R) TriStar (109 min.) Directed by Darnell Martin. With Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyonce Knowles. Opens Friday at theaters in New Jersey. TWO AND A HALF STARS No other popular ...

Floyd Dixon, the singer and jump-blues pianist who dubbed himself “Mr. Magnificent” and became an influential figure in the burgeoning R&B; scene of 1950s Southern California, died Wednesday of cancer ...

When the jazz and blues legend Billie Holiday offers a compliment about a singer, one tends to take note. For Holiday, the vocalist Kay Starr, who died at her Los Angeles home on Thursday at 94, was ...

Since the early 1900s, blues musicians have performed in Shreveport. In the late 1950s, bigger name acts began performing in town while the 1960s saw the development of local record labels such as ...