Grammy-winning Memphis music producer Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell recently showed the world how the blues is done, recruiting an all-star team of musicians to work on the record-breaking horror ...

Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. JACKSON, Miss. — Blues is inspired by place — the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once ...

Local record label Root Cellar Sound is presenting the second concert in its free community concert series in collaboration with the Broad Brook Community Center, this Sunday, Oct.

Is Mississippi’s longstanding claim as the birthplace of the blues a myth? Years of independent research by Xavier University professor and jazz clarinetist Michael White and blues-based guitarist, ...

Two Oxford-based artists are set to bring their soulful sounds to an international stage this January after winning top ...

Ryan Lee Crosby felt struck by lightning three times in his life. At age 13, when he first picked up a harmonica to play the blues. (“It was a struck-by-lightning moment, where I knew, ‘Oh, I’m going ...

NPR Music included Kingfish, who just turned 21, in its list of Best Debut Albums of 2019. Legendary Bobby Rush is also competing in the same category as Kingfish. Robert Marovich has been nominated ...

John Fahey, an eccentric folk guitarist heralded as a unique alchemist of American roots music and a powerful influence on his peers, died Thursday. He was 61. Fahey had been hospitalized since last ...

REPUBLICAN PARTY PRIMARY FOR MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL IS APRIL 1ST. TODAY THE MISSISSIPPI BLUES MARATHON TOOK OFF IN JACKSON. <FIRST 4 SECONDS GUITAR NATIONAL ANTHEM> THE MARATHON WAS HELD TO CELEBRATE ...

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 ...