Sliding a metal bar or a bottleneck over the frets of a stringed instrument may go back hundreds of years, but the twanging sound it produces has come to be associated chiefly with the Delta blues.

ROSSLYN, Va. (WUSA9)--Since the start of Silver Line service necessitated cuts to the Blue Line, some Metro rail commuters have asked Metro to restore two Blue Line trains per hour by increasing the ...

Each week, we look at the tools behind the tunes. Today, it's a simple glass tube that conjures the sound of the Mississippi delta in all its shimmering glory What is it? A style of playing that ...

The great gospel blues artist Blind Willie Johnson left behind a legacy of just 30 songs, recorded between 1927 and 1930, that drew their primal power from his ferociously raspy voice and thunderous ...

Foot stompin’ will resound when Reggie Miles plays some Bottleneck Blues & Handsaw Hokum on April 17 at the Everett Public Library. ReverbNation.com has described Miles as a singer who presents earthy ...

Drivers in Phoenix spend nearly 23 million hours a year combined sitting in traffic at the notorious Mini-Stack interchange. Chicago motorists spend even more — 25.2 million hours — at the dreaded ...

Bottleneck Blues Bar is about to live up to its name. Popular music critic {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Devon Allman took a ...