From Blind Willie Johnson to Howlin' Wolf and beyond, Paul McGuinness explores the best blues songs of all time ...

The debut entry in what promises to be a series of audio releases recorded at the legendary Montreux Festival is a double disc from Etta James. As powerful a singer as James was on her illustrious ...

Etta James, the “fantastic, fabulous, dynamite Lady of the Blues,” as Chuck Berry once introduced her, passed away Friday in her native Los Angeles, of complications from leukemia. She was 73. America ...

Etta James has been one of the foremost R & B and blues singer this country has produced. She has also demonstrated on many occasions that she can easily bring her hard charging style successfully to ...

Etta James' classic At Last seems to originate from the bottom of her gut and climb to the heavens in just two words. This collection, however, is all bottom. John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, bluesy, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Etta James' performance of the enduring classic "At Last" was the embodiment of refined soul: Angelic-sounding strings harkened the arrival of her passionate yet measured vocals as ...

Etta James, the incomparable force behind such hits as “At Last” and “Tell Mama,” winner of six Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards, died Friday morning in Riverside, Calif. after a lengthy ...

The Country Music Hall of Fame (CMHOF) is honoring the connection between country and R&B music in an online exhibit. Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, 1945-1970 examines the impact ...

When Etta James lashed out at Beyoncé in 2009 for singingAt Last at President Obama's inauguration party, most critics assumed James didn't like Beyoncé's interpretation of her 1961 hit. Or that she ...

Friend and manager Lupe De Leon said the R&B legend died early Friday at Riverside Community Hospital with her husband and two sons by her side. Born Jamesette Hawkins in Los Angeles, the powerhouse ...

Singer Etta James, who has been battling leukemia and was declared terminally ill this past December, has lost the battle with the cancer and passed away at the age of 73. The legendary songstress had ...