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

Participants will start and finish near the historic Mississippi State Capitol, with live Blues music energizing the scenic course. Runners will receive finisher medals and race shirts ...

of the University of Mississippi. Early blues artists such as W.C. Handy, Charley Patton and Blind Lemon Jefferson may have been the pioneers of a new style of music, but the genre continues to ...

The North Mississippi blues taps into something elemental from a time before African and European music made contact ... factory baseball cap and a plaid shirt, settled into a metal folding ...

A new Mississippi Blues Trail Marker is honoring a local blues legend.Visit Mississippi held a ceremony unveiling the marker outside the Iron Horse Grill on West Pearl Street in downtown Jackson on ...

Head up Highway 49… and the Mississippi Delta thrums with the sound of the blues even before the music hits your ears. At the annual Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, thousands flood this town ...

They're wearing green-and-white striped pants, and shirts with "MDOC convict" stenciled on the back, for Mississippi ... blues is all too familiar. "Of course, the blues is not just the music ...