May 8, 2011, marks the 100th birthday of Mississippi Delta bluesman Robert Johnson, who, according to legend, sold his soul down at the crossroads of Highway 61 and Highway 49 in a midnight bargain that has haunted the music world for three-quarters of a century. The deal brought forth Johnson's incandescent guitar technique and a run of 10-inch 78 rpm singles for the Vocalion, Oriole, Conqueror and Perfect labels recorded in San Antonio in 1936 and...

This G. Love & Special Sauce album finds G. Love coming full circle, reuniting with his Okeh labelmate Keb' Mo' and creating a 'new school blues' record. The album features blues/rock heavy-hitters Keb Mo, Robert Randolph, Marcus King, Roosevelt Collier, and Ron Artis.

The blues is a seven-part documentary film series exploring the evolution of the blues, featuring rare archival performance footage of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon ... et al., also including over 100 newly-filmed performances by contemporary artists such as B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Beck ... et al. singing classic blues songs.

Recorded in just three days in London, England, the album takes the band back to their roots and the passion for blues music which has always been the heart and soul of The Rolling Stones.

Charles Burnett explores his own childhood being shuttled between a religious mother and a blues-loving uncle. His film combines fiction with documentary footage in the story of a young boy kidnapped to prevent his being saved by a church that viewed blues as the devil's music.

B.B. King takes the stage for a once-in-a-lifetime performance with some of the music world's greatest stars.

Rhiannon Giddens's latest album was recorded with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi. Tracked over an intensely productive five day period in Dublin, Ireland, the album is at once a condemnation of 'othering' and a celebration of the spread of ideas, connectivity, and shared experience.

Mike Figgis' film mixes interviews with dozens of the key players of the British blues movement with new music from an all-star jam session at the Abbey Road studios.