Henry Merenda, 61, leads The Blue Henry's, a popular blues band in California's High Desert. The band plays around 150-200 shows annually in the Inland Empire and has two albums on streaming platforms ...

In 2012, an armed jihadist group known as Ansar Dine took control of northern regions of Mali, sparking a civil war. In areas it controlled, the group ordered a ban on cigarettes, alcohol and music.

The mainstream pop world still may not be aware of it but, over the last four decades, there has been a distinctive brand of guitar-driven, blues and rock-flavored music wafting in from northwestern ...

Malian band Songhoy Blues have announced their fourth album, Héritage, which will be out January 17 via Transgressive. The album finds them exploring a more acoustic version of their “desert blues” ...

Her third album, and her first in a decade, out on Glitterbeat, opens with two versions of a song called “Bidayett Lehjibb”, one with the sound of the andine, the other a searing emanation of Saharan ...

For several decades, desert blues was a regional genre little known outside of the Sahara and Sahel. Only in the last 20 years has the genre emerged from the desert and established a musical niche in ...