from country to rock to folk to jazz and blues. You’ll find it in many old blues tunes, such as some by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, through the later recordings of Eric Clapton and many others.

Lesser known but no less significant was the Memphis Country Blues Festival ... got excited about the fact that he was like 101 years old and didn't ask him how old he was and started marketing ...

We spoke to Robert Randolph, The Teskey brothers, Taj Farrant and , Kanchan Daniel, about the past and future of blues.

I grew up listening to him play old country blues music, and I grew up listening to old country blues musicians like Reverend Gary Davis and Mississippi John Hurt, and Robert Johnson, and all them.” ...

The museum, a 200-year-old shack with a tin roof, was once Hurt’s home. The country-blues singer and guitarist was born in the late 1800s, and he lived most of his life in Avalon, an all-Black ...