Although U.S. 61 begins in New Orleans and runs through Baton Rouge, the portion known as the Blues Highway starts around Vicksburg, Mississippi, and moves north through the Delta to Memphis, ...

TUNICA, Miss. (AP) — In cotton country a couple miles east of the Mississippi River, just off a road known as the blues highway, fourth graders at Tunica Elementary School are exploring the Delta's ...

Blues music was born in the Mississippi River delta, a pivotal event in American music history. You can visit the place ...

At a time when young people were falling for the Beatles and the Dave Clark Five, Rory Block fell for the blues. She was raised in New York City, where her father, who died earlier this month, ran a ...

The blues is a quintessentially American art form, yet one whose early masters have mostly passed away. The genre relies on each succeeding generation to renew and reinvigorate it. In Clarksdale, ...

Vicksburg To travel the Blues Highway from Baton Rouge, start in Vicksburg, a town grown from cotton cultivation and transportation which later became one of the most decisive battles of the Civil War ...