King — better known as B.B. King — was born on a cotton plantation outside tiny Itta Bena, destined to reign as the ...

The blues recordings that came out of the Mississippi Delta from the late 1920s through the late '30s have had an enormous impact on American music, influencing everyone from The Rolling Stones to ...

LITTLE ROCK, AR (KATV) — Arkansas Originals, a newly established nonprofit, has unveiled its inaugural program, the Arkansas River Delta Blues Trail. This heritage initiative aims to preserve and ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

You've seen his Mississippi Midnight signature model, now introducing the modern blues phenom's Tele Deluxe in Delta Day – or ...

The first-ever Porter Parish Grainger Blues Festival is coming to Bowling Green from November 20-22. Hosted by the Jack Dappa ...

Acclaimed for singing and acting in the Oscar-winning movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and winning a Grammy for his work on ...

Louisiana Bayou blues guitarist Tab Benoit brings his “I Hear Thunder” 2024 Tour to Bucknell University with a performance with Jesse Dayton, Saturday at 7:30 p.m., at the Weis Center for the ...

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, ...