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, ...

Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience band joins forces with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra to present the history ...

Cedric Burnside, a third-generation hill country blues artist, outside of his Ashland, Mississippi home on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. Burnside, who has been playing professionally since he was ...

Some of the most soul-stirring towns in Mississippi come alive along the legendary Blues Trail, especially in summer. From smoky juke joints and historic birthplaces to small-town museums and roadside ...

The blues is a quintessentially American art form, yet one whose early masters have mostly passed away. The genre relies on each succeeding generation to renew and reinvigorate it. In Clarksdale, ...

Growing up in Maine, the closest I got to the blues was when BB King played the Bangor Auditorium. Seeing that show as a fourteen-year-old was a full on event in my life. One of those flashpoints ...

The festival was canceled last year after rainouts in 2022 and 2023 left the Mississippi Valley Blues Society without the revenue it needed.

At age 81, King Edward Antione has been playing blues music for more than 50 years. While it fuels his soul to play, it hasn’t always been an easy road for Antione. Thanks to the Blues Musician ...