Baton Rouge’s blues community is mourning the death of singer Mamie Porter. A songwriter and vocalist who performed for 30 ...

One of the South Shore’s best-known local groups performs in their hometown tonight, but under the guise of a slightly ...

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Celebrate Elvis Presley's 90th birthday and the 100th anniversary of B.B. King with a series of events in the birthplace of ...

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Baton Rouge musicians are taking to social media to express their grief over the death blues singer Mamie Porter.

The Birthplace of America’s music and where so many creative trailblazers have found their passion, Mississippi speaks to generations of music lovers with historical landmarks, trails, music festivals ...

Mississippi Fred McDowell was a key figure in Mississippi hill country blues and one of the most dynamic performers of the 60s blues revival. Mississippi Fred McDowell was no Delta blues singer.

Stolle launched the Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art store and used his persuasion skills as a former adman to convince entrepreneurs and artists to move into Clarksdale's vacant properties. At Hambone ...

Influencing a wide range of artists, from Bob Dylan to Kurt Cobain ... in church as a child and inspired by the sounds of the Delta Blues, spent his teenage years learning to play harmonica ...

For though Robert Johnson has been named a master of the Delta blues style — a later influence on many blues and rock 'n' roll musicians from Eric Clapton to The Rolling Stones — his recording ...