Pianist Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis’s 1928 blues number has a relentless rhythmic drive, overlaid with flourishes of virtuosity.

a spare 12-bar blues called “Travelin’.” Goransson, who grew up in Sweden, learned to play the guitar as a child and shares his love for the instrument with his father, who is a blues ...

“Hand to heart, my favorite players were always the ones that had such an identifiable style and wrote songs in that very 12-bar blues framework,” Knowles told Cleveland.com and The Plain ...

In 1975, he and a partner bought the place, lock, stock and 12-bar blues. He was Sam Louie, noodle maker, restaurateur and trading company proprietor. Grossman’s was a grungy but beloved saloon ...

The result is a droning, hypnotic character. And unlike the comfortingly predictable 12-bar blues most people are familiar with—think of “Hound Dog” by Elvis Presley or “The Thrill Is Gone ...