CNN Travel names one Mississippi city in the Top 10 of America’s Best Towns to Visit. Find food, fun, live music in ...

INDIANOLA, MISS. — He started out here 60 years ago, singing the blues on a street corner for dimes. Now, less than three blocks from that corner, the legendary B.B. King will soon have his own ...

With pandemic restrictions lifted, tourists are returning to Mississippi's famous Blues Trail. Civil rights leaders are noticing some are now hungry for more context about the music's origins.

Mississippi Blues Commission. Share. Rosedale Delta blues pioneer Charley Patton was the first to sing about Rosedale, the geographic muse of artists like Eric Clapton and Robert Johnson.

The blues put this town on the tourism map, but Clarksdale has leaned into its musical heritage in recent decades. Here’s how ...

Clarksdale, Mississippi is known as the birthplace of the blues. Follow CNN anchor Laura Coates as she explores the city’s ...

In Greenwood, Mississippi, you can’t go anywhere without seeing signs for the Blues Deejays, Baptist Town, Elks Lodge, Furry Lewis, Guitar Slim, Hubert Sumlin, the WGRM radio station and Robert ...

It's getting closer to that time of year, and so the lineup for the 48th Annual Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival ...

In cotton country, a couple of miles east of the Mississippi River, just off a road known as the "blues highway," fourth-graders at Tunica Elementary School are exploring the Mississippi Delta's ...

Sean "Bad" Apple: Yeah, that's Cream's version. But Robert Johnson, the blues man, that's his song, I Went to the Crossroads. Sean "Bad" Apple 60 Minutes . Over the years, musical tastes changed.

In the Mississippi birthplace of the blues, the music pours from the clubs and juke joints. You won't find it more authentic than this. Delta, land of sweet misery - Los Angeles Times ...

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 ...