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 ...

The newly formed nonprofit Arkansas Originals is proud  to announce the launch of its inaugural signature program: the ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...

Music, history, and the iconic voice of Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman will collide at the Capital One City Parks ...

Shelley Ritter, executive director of the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Miss., in front of a replica vehicle used by Alan Lomax to record blues musicians in the Delta. (Peter O'Dowd/Here & Now ...

Arkansas Originals, a newly established nonprofit, has unveiled its inaugural program, the Arkansas River Delta Blues ...

With pandemic restrictions lifted, tourists are returning to Mississippi's famous Blues Trail. Civil rights leaders are noticing some are now hungry for more context about the music's origins.

Mississippi may be the birthplace of the blues, but as it grows and evolves, its impact is becoming more global.

The duo will perform a series of songs, with stories and descriptions of the performers, styles, instrumental techniques and themes of the blues masters of the early 1900s to the 1940s.