On this day (21 March) in 1995, Steve Vai’s E.P. Alien Love Secrets was released. And it features what is arguably the guitar virtuoso’s greatest song - Tender Surrender. Looking back on the 30th ...

or find some way to connect it to the man-woman theme, or sexual double entendre, getting back to more standard blues themes. A song by Atlanta artist Barbecue Bob, "Mississippi Heavy Water Blues ...

The song tells the story of a man realizing too late that he’s been used and left broken—a common blues theme delivered here ...

Blues has been called the first truly American music. The colour blue has described melancholy and depression since Elizabethan times, but as a musical form its style was born from the experiences ...