As budget hearings continued Tuesday afternoon with the Development & Planning Committee, chairman Bruce Lockett could not get his meeting started without addressing the Delta Rhythm and Bayous' 2024 ...

will have the chance to explore several other sites important to the Delta blues. Today, Greenwood continues to celebrate its ...

With her latest studio release, Paper Doll, the Kansas City blues rocker bottles the energy of life on the road and goes in ...

JACKSON, Miss. — A small town in the Mississippi Delta that has ties to the civil rights movement will soon be home to the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame. Project planners hope to finish ...

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 ...

In the third episode of a six-part series presented by American Songwriter and Renasant Bank, Rivers of Rhythm takes a deep look at the popularity of blues music as we celebrate Black History Month.

Clarksdale, Miss. — “SOME call it boogie-woogie, some call it blues; I got my rhythm from a fox-trotting mule!” croons James “Super Chikan” Johnson as his golden retriever twirls between his stomping ...

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Today’s audio update: Tim Cahill picks cotton. NATCHEZ, MISS.—I was joking earlier, quoting the Blues Brothers movie, of course, when I said this journey to the heart of the land where the blues was ...

The Center for the Arts is pleased to present Roy Rogers & The Delta Rhythm Kings in the Marisa Funk Theater on February 10, 2024. Born in Redding, California in 1950, Roy began playing guitar at ...