The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...

Rory Block, who plays tonight at Kirk Avenue Music Hall, has the Delta blues guitar style locked in. Get story and show details here. She's also pretty freaking cool, as you'll hear in the podcast ...

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss.-- Delta blues guitar player Bill Abel is scheduled to appear Friday, June 22, at the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center of Arts & Education in Ocean Springs. A native of Belzoni, ...

At age 36, Jonny Lang is already a veteran bluesman with two decades at the top of the blues game. Lang was a guitar prodigy. He released his first album, “Lie to Me,” at age 15 and was instantly ...

I attended the final performance of The Delta King’s Blues on Sunday, December 21, inside a rustic, intimate theater space in ...

INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

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 ...

Veteran blues guitarist Corey Harris headlines an eclectic double-bill with Portland-based newcomer Clara Baker at the Whiteside Theatre in downtown Corvallis on Friday, March 13. Harris carries a ...