Born Under a Bad Sign: Classic Blues

Raised in poverty and pain, Blues has toughed it out for more than a century, trekking straight outta tarpaper shacks and danger-thick dives into concert halls and the White House. Along the way it midwifed jazz and rock 'n' roll, supplied key strands to the DNA of swing and hip-hop, upended sacred music and penned whole chapters of the Great American Songbook. Check out great blues from every era with this genre overview.