The week’s options for live music in New Orleans include a milestone birthday for a local blues legend and a two-night stand ...

It's widely held -- if in a bit of an oversimplified way -- that when it comes to musical provenance, New Orleans is for jazz and Memphis is for blues. Like jazz, though, the blues is a sprawling ...

In his new book The Blues, musician Chris Thomas King asserts that the “blues was invented in the 1890s by Black Creoles in New Orleans.”That’s an extraordinary claim, although not entirely ...

Whenever the topic of Katrina's destruction of New Orleans and the surrounding area comes up, the talk turns to the loss of coastal wetlands in Louisiana and the muzzling of the mighty Mississippi ...

The 11th annual NOLA River Festival is in New Orleans on Saturday, June 10. This year’s festival, which is a production of the New Orleans Jazz Museum, aims to honor the cultural, economic, and ...

One guide used in planning this trip was "The Blues Highway - New Orleans to Chicago," by Richard Knight (Trailblazer Publications, 2001). On the Web, www.cathead.biz also has good information ...

In the Mississippi birthplace of the blues, the music pours from the clubs and juke joints. You won't find it more authentic than this. Delta, land of sweet misery - Los Angeles Times ...

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 ...

Delta blues: Those with the least bear the most. From the Editors in the June 27, 2006 issue. Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Email to a friend Print. Ten months ago, the nation was riveted ...

Because of concerns about a major spike in coronavirus caseloads, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival made the understandable but unnecessary decision to cancel its planned October ...