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

Most would say it's the humidity that makes the Mississippi air feel so thick. I believe it's the ghosts. Ghosts haunt Mississippi with stories, lifetimes of stories — told with words, or in song over ...

"Good Morning America" will broadcast live from Clarksdale, Mississippi this week, highlight local club, Blues music. Here's when, how to watch on ABC ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner. In ...

A show at Red's, a juke joint in Clarksdale, Miss., where it's advertised that you can see live blues seven nights a week. (Kirk Siegler/NPR) CLARKSDALE, Miss. — Bluesman Robert Johnson played the ...

Paul, it turns out, runs a blues festival in Maine and is fanatical about the music genre's history. Paul has visited every marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. My goal is more modest-a weeklong ...

An aerial view of downtown Greenwood Mississippi's broad tree-dotted streets - Josey Wales/Shutterstock Less than 100 miles south of the bright lights in Mississippi's gaming getaway of Tunica, you'll ...

We’d never really thought of ourselves as fans of the blues (the music, not the hockey team). But then a few years ago, driving through Mississippi, we decided on a whim to visit the B.B. King Museum ...

Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

As the soulful cradle of the Blues, the musical heritage of Mississippi has forever shaped the soundtrack of the US. But, alongside the haunting hum of bluesy harmonicas, you’ll also hear the sweet ...

With pandemic restrictions lifted, tourists are returning to Mississippi's famous Blues Trail. Civil rights leaders are noticing some are now... Mississippi is home of the blues and key to civil ...

CLARKSDALE, Miss. — Bluesman Robert Johnson played the guitar with such genius that legend has it his talent was a gift from the devil in exchange for the musician's soul. That deal was done, ...