Get ready for your toes to start tapping as you head down this trail that takes you through the Arkansas Delta, where ...

Sinners director Ryan Coogler and composer Ludwig Göransson didn’t just read up on Mississippi Delta blues while making the music for the 2025 blockbuster film Sinners; they went to experience ...

We heard Mississippi Marshall, Seth Hill and Lee Williams perform at the town’s best-known venue, the Ground Zero Blues Club, which is co-owned by actor (and Delta native) Morgan Freeman.

When he was a rising star in the 1940s, he adopted the nickname “Beale Street Blues Boy,” which was shortened to Blues Boy and later B.B. King. He died in 2015 at age 89, but his legacy lives on.

My first stop was in my hometown of Tallahassee. Before starting this research I had no idea that the place where I was born was home to one of the trail markers. The blues trail marker in Tallahassee ...

You’ll experience the state’s rich history in blues, country, rock-and-roll, pop and other genres as you learn about legendary Mississippi musicians. INDIANOLA ...

Visit Mississippi has unveiled a Mississippi Blues Trail Marker at Liverpool’s Iconic Cavern Club. This historic marker will be the first permanent marker in the UK, symbolising the musical ...

The trail was created in 2006 by the Mississippi Blues Commission, to place blue interpretive markers — there are hundreds — at notable historical sites related to the blues music throughout ...

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.

Do you know why they call it the blues? The Mississippi Blues Trail tells the story of how a genre began. Here are must-see stops to help ensure you soak in as much blues history as possible.

An artist synonymous with the Blues is music legend B.B. King who was born along the Mississippi Delta and taught the reality of life on the floodplain to the world through his lyrics.

TREMONT • Tony Wayne Hooper has spent decades in the music industry; he played his first guitar at 6 and wrote his first song when he was 9.