The blues recordings that came out of the Mississippi Delta from the late 1920s through the late '30s have had an enormous impact on American music, influencing everyone from The Rolling Stones to ...

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; it's ...

Grammy-award winning artist, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram to bring the Blues to Cannery Hall at 8 p.m. on October 9.

Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience band joins forces with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra to present the history ...

Blues music has long been linked to the mystical or supernatural. After all, the seminal Blues tale is of legend Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads of U.S. Highways 49 and ...

The King Biscuit Blues Festival on Cherry Street in downtown Helena-West Helena is back, a little leaner this year, but ...

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 ...

Freeman talked with WAVE News Anchor Maira Ansari about how he will be in Louisville for a pretty unique music experience ...

Behind the scenes shot of Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan on the set of "Sinners" (Photo credit: Eli Adé) Beyond the vampires and sex appeal of Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” ...

In the early years of the 20th century, a young and struggling Mississippi native who longed to master the blues guitar stood at the crossroads outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, and made a deal with ...