The 46th edition of the BMA honors — staged by the Memphis-based Blues Foundation — were held at the Renasant Convention ...

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 ...

The legendary Robert Johnson, a blues icon, whose life story of struggle and talent, particularly the myth of a deal with the ...

Sinners – which stars Michael B. Jordan and Buddy Guy – boasts a compelling score that pays tribute to the blues, with a ...

Blues legend Bobby Rush and other Mississippi blues musicians performed at the RiverBeat Music Festival in Memphis. Rush, 91, ...

Ryan Coogler's latest film, "Sinners," a spicy cinematic gumbo of African American folk tale, painful racial history and ...

Nightfall, Chattanooga’s original outdoor summer concert series, will continue its 38th season on Friday with a headline ...

Robert Mugge has produced and directed documentary feature films about bluegrass and zydeco and reggae; about New Orleans musicians, in exile from Hurricane Katrina; about Hawaiian dance; about the ...

There's a song written by the jazz singer Billy Eckstine with Sid Kuller called "Blues, the Mother of Sin" that has always ...

Backdropped by Mississippi River, Memphis’ octogenarian queen of sacred soul played on the Mempho Presents stage on May 3, ...

Blues legend Bobby Rush and other Mississippi blues musicians performed at the RiverBeat Music Festival in Memphis. Rush, 91, energized the crowd with his harmonica playing and classic blues songs.