New York Guitar Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2019, and for this year’s edition it’s paying tribute to pioneering blues guitarist Memphis Minnie. More about her: A supremely influential ...

Why has this musician who recorded over two hundred sides and was well-loved by the Black blues audiences of the '30s and '40s been comparatively ignored by later audiences? Perhaps it's because ...

Title from container: Memphis Minnie, v. 2 early recordings with Kansas Joe McCoy. Program and biographical notes by Chris Strachwitz on container. Performer(s): Blues; sung by Memphis Minnie and ...

ACOUSTIC WEEK: Blues is a wholly American music form, and as the steel- string flat-top acoustic guitar was a product of European immigrants into the United States, the two were destined to be ...