CARBONDALE – Steve’s Guitars has booked consecutive nights of live music by national touring acts this weekend, followed by a special Tuesday gig with the Mississippi Delta blues of Reverend Peyton’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blues posters, pictures and drawings are displayed for sale at Cat Head Delta Blues and Folk Art in Clarksdale, MS. The Delta ...

Guitarist Samantha Fish grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where classic rock radio and a local club lead her to the stage. She studied Delta blues guitar players, as well as Bonnie Raitt and Slash, to ...

In the 47 years since Bonnie Raitt released her debut album, one thing hasn’t changed for the guitarist and singer: a deep, abiding love of the Delta blues. “One person on a guitar or slide guitar is ...

Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original ...

Recently, Tom Gray arrived at the Brick Store Pub in Decatur looking for all the world like a rock star. Gray, a longtime Decatur resident and the leader of the Atlanta blues band Delta Moon, had ...

The blues took form in the Mississippi Delta and nearby river towns, where Black workers used song to mark time, trade news, and voice grief under Jim Crow rules. Travel to these places adds context ...

INDIANOLA, MISS. — He started out here 60 years ago, singing the blues on a street corner for dimes. Now, less than three blocks from that corner, the legendary B.B. King will soon have his own museum ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...

In the 47 years since Bonnie Raitt released her debut album, one thing hasn’t changed for the guitarist and singer: a deep, abiding love of the Delta blues. “One person on a guitar or slide guitar is ...