Among Bach, Mozart, and global folk songs on the Voyager Golden Record sits a haunting blues track with no words—just raw emotion. Blind Willie Johnson’s “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” was ...

Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland, and Robert Cray got together for Showdown! – a bona-fide blues classic, and, as Cray tells ...

Railbird’s pivot to a more pop-country crowd in 2025 conjured up a fun, but distinctly different vibe around the festival ...

Filmmaker Ryan Coogler of "Black Panther" fame and others attended special screenings of "Sinners" in a town also known for ...

"Sinners" director Ryan Coogler comes down to Clarksdale, Miss., to host a series of special series of film that's based off ...

As of yesterday, the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s 2025 season is in full swing. Before things got too busy, artistic director ...

The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner.

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Ryan Coogler’s box-office hit “Sinners” is steeped in the blues, its folklore and legends. People can’t get enough of the movie or its songs ... the site where Robert Johnson supposedly ...

The free premiere takes place May 7 at Blues City Cafe on Beale Street. Robert ... Johnson: The Complete Recordings" continued to be a surprise best-seller. "Those three events put Mississippi ...

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 ...