Tyler Yarbrough makes it clear. Sinners and the cultural fest that followed may have thrust Clarksdale into the national ...

Dig deeper into the Delta blues with these documentaries about legendary musicians Robert Johnson, Charley Patton and Howlin' ...

The community effort and attention around “Sinners,” a blockbuster horror movie, became an opportunity to talk about ...

The movie is based on the believable theory that music or especially gifted musicians can conjure up magic through their ...

The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner.

“It has to do with that relationship that Delta Blues has with its kinda like ... re not the first people to make a song called ‘Crossroads,’” he said, referring to his favorite ’90s ...

From the moment the band stepped into FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama they felt the weight of history around them.

In any case, this crossroad was supposedly where Johnson ... Patton considered to be the father of the Delta blues (a title corroborated by music journalist Robert Palmer), and in the film ...

The Blues Trail - Mississippi to Louisiana - sign by the Louisiana Delta Music Museum in Ferriday ... Or you can find the "Crossroads" where Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the Devil ...

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 61 in the Delta to be able to play a guitar like no one else.