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

Ryan Lee Crosby felt struck by lightning three times in his life. At age 13, when he first picked up a harmonica to play the blues. (“It was a struck-by-lightning moment, where I knew, ‘Oh, I’m going ...

‘The blues had a baby and they named it rock‘n’roll,’ sang Muddy Waters. And he was right, of course. Once he and Howlin’ Wolf started plugging into amps in the clubs of Chicago in the 1950s, the ...

Gang of brownskin women (Harvey Hull) --Be true, be true blues (Henry Sims) --I'm leavin' town (William Harris) -- Special rider blues ; Cypress Grove blues (Skip James) -- Hang it on the wall ...

The only trouble with musical revival eras is that it also requires that sounds you love are dying just a little bit more than before you're treated to loving them all over again. On Wednesday night ...

“The blues is always going to be around because there’ll always be a kid listening to B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan.” — Delta Blues superstar “Kingfish” Ingram, Clarksdale, Ms. It’s far-fetched and ...

Blues selections by Delta bluesman Son House, obtained by Sam Charters from the Library of Congrss folksong archive. Tape 2 of 2 given to Moe Asch by Charters to produce an album of blues artist from ...

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 ...

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 Memphis, ...