In 1899, blues guitarist and singer Lonnie Johnson was born in New Orleans. More respected for his playing than his singing, Johnson developed his distinctive style as early as 1927 when he recorded ...

Welcome to the Rock & Roll Diner in Oceano, California – a slice of Americana that’s been shaking, rattling, and rolling ...

The interior of the Pink Cadillac Diner is a masterclass in 1950s Americana. The black and white checkered floor is so ...

Rock & roll was born in the 1950s, a more raucous, electrified form of the blues. In the 1960s, the genre was given more life. Still rudimentary in some ways, it grew over the era and then found its ...