Blues and R&B singer Big Mama Thornton will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this weekend. Ask most folks who first sang the early rock n roll hit "Hound Dog" and they'll tell you Elvis ...

Big Mama Thornton made Rock and Roll…. Rock and Roll. Finally, after decades of being ignored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she is being inducted. Rock and Roll would not be Rock and Roll without ...

Made famous by Elvis Presley, the legendary song was first recorded by rhythm-and-blues singer Willie Mae ‘Big Mama’ Thornton. Few people know it, but the date August 13 is a very significant date in ...

On Friday’s show: We get more results from the Hobby School’s election survey about Harris County, we learn about drama between the City of Houston’s leadership, and we discuss Big Mama Thornton’s ...

We spend today’s show in a deep exploration of the blues. We’ll explore the racialized, gendered, sexualized, and overarchingly monetized, tension of that music, and its relationship to normative ...