Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of "blue notes." It emerged in Black communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
BB King - 'The Thrill Is Gone'
BB King (1993), a world-reknowned musician and blues ambassador, performing his biggest hit at the Montreux, Switzerland, jazz festival.
B. B. King, Defining Bluesman
Bill Withers: Grandma's Hands (Live at Carnegie Hall)
Singer-songwriter Bill Withers says that his tribute to his and other special grandmothers is the song he cares about most
Machaliotis Dimitris' Minimum Wage
In this telling, singing the blues looking for glory, brother you're in the wrong game.
Jimmy Greene -- Where Is the Love?
From saxophonist Jimmy Greene’s new release, Beautiful Life, a celebration of the life of his 6-year-old daughter, Ana Márquez-Greene, whose life was tragically taken, along with 19 other children and 6 educators, on December 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Springsteen: My Oklahoma Home
Bruce Springsteen, live in Dublin, sings Woody Guthrie's classic song of humor for surviving Dust Bowl and Depression."All except my mortgage blowed away."
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