Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grammy-winning Memphis music producer Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell recently showed the world how the blues is done, recruiting an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Out of more than 23,000 entries for consideration, four Mississippi musicians have been nominated for 2026 Grammy awards. The ...

Mississippi and Mid-South artists Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Eden Brent were among the winners at the annual Blues Music Awards on May 7. The 47th edition of the BMA honors — presented by the ...

International music fans travel to this Mississippi icon. See why one Bentonia restaurant and its owner are legendary in ...

Nashville, Austin, New Orleans, Chicago, and New York are some of the more notable American locations for music. However, the location that partially gave these places their music: the Mississippi ...

When The North Mississippi Allstars recorded their first album, Shake Hands with Shorty, they were wet behind the ears and wore their Mississippi Hill Country blues and Memphis blues proudly on their ...

The Mississippi Delta is a vast, inland floodplain, crossed with a network of bayous, cypress swamps and oxbow lakes. Photograph by Simon Urwin It’s dotted with some of the most uniquely atmospheric ...

In the early years of the 20th century, a young and struggling Mississippi native who longed to master the blues guitar stood at the crossroads outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, and made a deal with ...

I have been a lover of music for my entire life and this year I wanted to dive deep into music history that helped to shape the genres that we listen to today. The Blues Trail was created in 2006 and ...

As I drive my rented Dodge Hornet south on Highway 61 across the flat Mississippi Delta, the region’s famous native son B.B. King croons “Why I Sing the Blues” on the radio. Music that sprung from ...