Blues Music – Page 6

Kendrick Lamar Gets Inspired (by Drake), and 9 More New Songs

Hear tracks by Miranda Lambert, Illuminati Hotties, Mabe Fratti and others.

By Jon Pareles and Lindsay Zoladz

Black People Blues Music Deaths (Obituaries) Folk Music House, Son (1902-88) Newport Folk Festival Photography Raitt, Bonnie Waterman, Dick (1935-2024)

Dick Waterman, Promoter and Photographer of the Blues, Dies at 88

A “crackpot eccentric Yankee” from Massachusetts, he revived the careers of long-forgotten Southern artists during the blues boom of the 1960s.

By Alex Williams

Bars and Nightclubs Blues Music Clarksdale (Miss) Deaths (Obituaries) Paden, Red (1956-2023) Red's (Clarksdale, Miss, Music Venue)

Red Paden, Juke Joint ‘King’ Who Kept the Blues Alive, Dies at 67

His unassuming Mississippi Delta nightspot is one of the last of its kind, giving blues musicians a welcoming venue and lately drawing visitors from around the world.

By Clay Risen

Bessie Banks Big Maybelle Billy Bragg Blues Music Country Music Doris Troy Folk Music Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Labi Siffre Phair, Liz Pop and Rock Music Prine, John Simone, Nina The Brat The Chiffons Two Thousand Twenty Three

The Best Songs Our Readers Discovered in 2023

Songs by Labi Siffre, Bessie Banks, the Brat and more that became invested with fresh meaning.

By Lindsay Zoladz