It's been nearly 50 years since Chicago singer and harmonica player Billy Branch heard blues music for the first time as a 17-year-old student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Branch said it ...

The blues world was changed forever on a sunny day around 1960 when a little boy walked into a five-and-dime in Los Angeles. “I was 8, maybe 9 when I saw it, all shiny in a display case,” says Billy ...

The sun was already bearing down by 11 a.m. Saturday morning when families began spreading blankets across the grass at Harry Griffen Park. Dogs wandered between lawn chairs. Children darted toward a ...