The blacks tended to view the flood as wiping the slate clean, wiping out the old order ... who had come from the country, listening to the blues. Blues is a music that's highly personalized ...

Back by popular demand at RiverSong Music Festival this weekend is Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band. The trio who rocked the festival last year, will close it playing from 9:30 to 11 p.m.

80-year-old Walmatjarri elder and blues musician Kankawa Nagarra has ... While working on homesteads, she immersed herself in country music and rock – which were popular on radio at the time.

The post-war traditional jazz and folk revival movements produced the fertile ground for a new kind of blues music — entirely influenced by the authentic black blues of the USA, and, for the ...

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.” ...

How does that affect your music? Oscar: Well, me with the old and him with the new ... When I was growing up, they had country and western, blues, R&B, and doo-wop — all kinds of music on ...