Kelly was unique in being a British white female singer working solely in the blues. The antithesis of Janis Joplin, this straight-faced performer based her vocal and guitar styles on male blues ...

She kept on performing, but in women’s clothing. Learn more about this trailblazer on the Smithsonian Sidedoor podcast episode "Singing the Gender-Bending Blues." National Museum of African American ...

Terrie Odabi has been nominated for a number of blues music awards. The Santa Barbara Blues Society (SBBS) presents multiple ...

But this wasn’t someone she sat with at school. In fact, it was a woman she had never met – the legendary blues singer Bessie Smith. Jackie’s first introduction to Bessie came in the form of ...

“Blues Is a Woman,” onstage Saturday in Pacifica presented ... and those records were such a sensation that this music spread all over the planet.” That the women were fiery and independent ...

Legendary singer and activist Barbara Dane died in her Oakland home Sunday. She was 97 years old. In the 1950s, Dane became a popular blues singer and performed with many leading musicians of the ...