No state has a more solid claim to it than Mississippi. “We’re the birthplace of blues, country and rock and roll music,” ...

B.B. King, one of Mississippi's most celebrated blues artists, would have turned 100 this year. The Natchez Music Festival is ...

Timothy Ivy Holmes has lately taken on the role of educator, lecturing about Bentonia blues to schools and civic groups in Mississippi and elsewhere, and teaching musicians. The festival that he ...

In March, D.K. Harrell, a 26-year-old blues singer-guitarist from north Louisiana, signed with the world’s greatest blues ...

Concert benefits “The Music They Played on 7th Street Oakland” Walk of Fame in West Oakland, which suffered some $150,000 in ...

Three-time Grammy Award-winning blues legend Bobby Rush and five-time Grammy nominated singer/songwriter/guitarist Kenny ...

He has had David-and-Goliath triumphs over record companies, extracting copyrights and royalties for blues musicians and their heirs. “In those days,” says James Cotton, the Mississippi-born ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly ... accompanying themselves on guitar or harmonica. Bottleneck and slide guitar, a rough and rhythmic intensity, and ...

ELLISVILLE, Miss. (WDAM) - Longtime Ellisville musician Tommie “T-Bone” Pruitt has been honored in the United States Congress for contributions to blues music in Mississippi. At a recent session of ...