For a vacation steeped in America's blues history and tradition, there may be no better place to visit than this iconic ...

Sammie's character in Sinners is heavily inspired by legendary musician Robert Johnson, with both of them living lives that share many similarities.

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 intrigue: To get close to the haints (Southern word for ghosts) as mentioned in "Sinners," brave visitors can visit the ...

“Sinners,” written and directed by Ryan Coogler (“Black Panther,” “Creed”), is an inventive new film set in 1932 Clarksdale, Mississippi. Sinking its teeth into the history of the rural South and the ...

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.

Discovery. In it, 1930s Mississippi is seen as a burgeoning and fertile place where blues music is created, as characters perform in moving cars and a juke joint is thrown together for the ...

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

“There needs to be a coming home to these Black creators who are making ... who taught him about blues music and tales about ...