I drove the length of Mississippi – these were my favourite spots

I drove the length of Mississippi – these are the spots you should visit on a road trip - On a journey across the southern ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Delta Blues Music

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of ...
USA Today

Raised in the Mississippi Delta, the blues shaped music for generations

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...
NPR

Why the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame is headed to this small Mississippi Delta town

JACKSON, Miss. — A small town in the Mississippi Delta that has ties to the civil rights movement will soon be home to the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame. Project planners hope to finish ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Following in the steps of B.B. King on the Mississippi Blues Trail

As I drive my rented Dodge Hornet south on Highway 61 across the flat Mississippi Delta, the region’s famous native son B.B. King croons “Why I Sing the Blues” on the radio. Music that sprung from ...

Charlie Musselwhite Talks New Music, “Blues Brothers” Legacy and Keeping Tradition Alive: ‘I’m Lucky to Be Anywhere’ (Exclusive)

Musselwhite, 82, reflects on 60 years of blues mastery in an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE at Red’s Old Timers Blues Fest ...

Sounds grow in the land and move with people—from Delta blues to Chicago, Detroit, and New York

Dropping the Needle of Memory Vol. 55Who would read a story like this? There are several articles in the past that made me ...