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 Warner Brothers movie "Sinners" is introducing to a new generation to the importance of blues and juke joints in a 1930s ...

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

Mississippi artists Mr. Sipp ... was one of the evening’s big winners. Brooks took home trophies for Song of the Year and Contemporary Blues Album, for his “Blues in My DNA.” ...

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

he left home at 16 and joined the house band at the Matrix, then a new Fillmore Street nightclub, where he learned the basics of slide guitar while jamming with visiting blues legends Mississippi ...

igniting their commercial careers and helping to launch an international fascination with North Mississippi hill country blues that continues today. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

While millions of Arkansans have grown up within miles of the Mississippi River, it doesn’t exactly make the list for popular ...

Activist Tyler Yarbrough clarified to USA TODAY that he and other city leaders are having conversations about the potential public screening.

From the Brightline train that runs from West Palm Beach to Miami to the Texas leg of the Amtrak Sunset Limited Route, these ...

Their cousin Sammie, a pastor's son known as Preacher Boy (played by newcomer Miles Caton), is an aspiring musician; his father warns that the blues is ... with a gory home invasion that makes ...