Many of America’s greatest blues artists are women, including Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Sister Rosetta Tharpe – but they ...

Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

From Blind Willie Johnson to Howlin' Wolf and beyond, Paul McGuinness explores the best blues songs of all time ...

Hard Road is the sound of an artist maturing, dealing with tragedy, life, and new ideas for putting a fresh twist on one of ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods; it's ...

Vineet Singh Hukmani, a global musician known for breaking records, is releasing a groundbreaking double blues album. 'Delta Blues Revival' and 'Kyon? Punjabi Blues' are set to make history as the ...

In the northwest corner of Mississippi, the Mississippi Delta region overflows with a wealth of musical history. After all, it’s the birthplace of the blues and rock ‘n’ roll. And while gospel wasn’t ...

The Delta Blues Festival started as a local resident’s dream to bring blues to East Contra Costa County. photo courtesy of Ted Beranis International musicians Guy King, above, and Kirk Fletcher are ...

Mamie Smith set the tone for a new century of sound in global music. The Cincinnati native was the first singer to record the blues. It’s the foundational American music form upon which jazz, country, ...

The Jersey Shore's got the blues. Anthony “Big A” Sherrod and the Allstars, direct from the Mississippi Delta, and Kenny “Stringbean” Sorensen will play at 8 p.m. Friday, June 2, at the Lauren K.

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 Memphis, ...