Mississippi Delta is home of the blues and key to civil rights past. Here's how With pandemic restrictions lifted, tourists are returning to Mississippi's famous Blues Trail.

Pappas Delta Blues Smokehouse in Plano, an upscale barbecue restaurant at the Dallas North Tollway and W. Parker Road, closed after service on April 4, 2024. The restaurant had been open in West ...

The blues put this town on the tourism map, but Clarksdale has leaned into its musical heritage in recent decades. Here’s how to experience the best of this Mississippi town’s music scene and ...

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.

Like Johnson, Sammie is a young blues prodigy from Mississippi who started out playing at Smoke and Stack's juke joint, longing to play the music he likes for people outside of Clarksdale.

After all, the seminal Blues tale is of legend Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads of U.S. Highways 49 and 61 in the Delta to be able to play a guitar like no one else.

Although U.S. 61 begins in New Orleans and runs through Baton Rouge, the portion known as the Blues Highway starts around Vicksburg, Mississippi, and moves north through the Delta to ...

The film, says Coogler, is about dichotomies, beginning with the relationship between the church and the blues. Sammie is the son of a Baptist minister (Saul Williams), who fears for his soul.

At the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, Mississippi, fans of the blues great can follow his journey from his youngest days until his death in 2015.

After all, the seminal Blues tale is of legend Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads of U.S. Highways 49 and 61 in the Delta to be able to play a guitar like no one else.