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 ...

The Royal Studios owner did it again on May 2, assembling an all-star lineup of Mississippi blues musicians to deliver a ...

An open letter from the city of Clarksdale to Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan says that "We are ready," and had 4,000 ...

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.” ...

Joe Louis Walker, the celebrated blues guitarist and singer, has died at the age of 75 from cardiac-related illness.

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 ...

Blues legend Bobby Rush and other Mississippi blues musicians performed at the RiverBeat Music Festival in Memphis. Rush, 91, energized the crowd with his harmonica playing and classic blues songs.

Robert Johnson was an American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in 1911 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. Music was his escape. And not just any music—Robert had a feel for the blues that ...

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