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 ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods; it's ...

Here are 16 great Delta blues artists. All are Black. Fifteen are men.

Before the blues filled grand theaters and concert halls, it lived in humble bars, street corners, and juke joints where life ...

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, ...

Listen to a new cover of James Brown’s “Try Me,” from the Redux EP, celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Greatest ...

CLARKSDALE, Miss.--When in Rome, as they say. As part of Road Trip 2008, my journey through the South in search of several weeks' worth of stories, I had accepted an invitation to come to this tiny ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook I don’t think it really hit any of us until we were about to sit down to a home-cooked meal made ...