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don’t pass up spending time in Clarksdale on your trip down the Great River Road in Mississippi. The next city you’ll come to ...
Officially called the Great River Road National Scenic Byway, this series of state and local highways and roads follows the course of the Mississippi ... The home of the blues, Memphis, Tennessee ...
The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner.
The Mississippi ... the Delta Blues style. Listen for the percussive style of slide guitar in Bukka White's "Panama Limited" and the emotive vocalizations in Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues ...
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 city of Greenwood boasts a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail because it's where guitarist B.B. King performed his first live broadcast — in 1940 at the WGRM radio station on Howard Street.
Officially called the Great River Road National Scenic Byway, this series of state and local highways and roads follows the ...