Most may recall hearing their grandparents playing the blues at fish fries, family gatherings, or during weekend cleaning ...

The Delta Blues Museum tells the story of sharecroppers turned legends, handmade guitars, and the raw sound that traveled ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

Clarksdale, Mississippi, is where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the Devil and where the first juke joints started playing a new kind of American music—the Delta Blues.

In the heart of the Mississippi Delta is the B.B. King Museum dedicated to the late “King of Blues.” Thousands of artifacts, from B.B. King’s tour bus to performance attire, are on display ...

The Delta Blues Museum and the BB King Museum (100km further south) unpick this heritage but Clarksdale is still a concert in progress – and everyone seems to know the band. “People come here ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...

It’s hard to separate the Great River Road in Mississippi from its counterpart, the Blues Highway. The history explored by these two routes is not only the story of Mississippi, but also America ...