Born from the spirituals, work songs, and field hollers of African American communities in the Deep South, blues music gave ...

The most controversial songs of the ’50s: Do you agree? The 1950s were a decade at war with its own music. Rock and roll ...

Billy Mitchell, a former singer with the rhythm-and-blues group the Clovers, who was best known for his rollicking rendition of “Love Potion No. 9,” died Tuesday at a hospital in Washington, D.C., ...

Ruth Brown, the pioneering singer whose 1950s hits including “Teardrops From My Eyes” and “(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean” helped establish both the rhythm-and-blues form and Atlantic Records as ...

This essay is one in a series celebrating women whose major contributions in recording occurred before the time frame of NPR Music's list of 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women. Ruth Brown was R&B's ...

Cleveland’s story as an early torchbearer of rhythm and blues begins in the late 1940s when this new genre of pulsating, dance-oriented music was broadcast on local stations like WJMO and WABQ. LOS ...