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August 21, 2012
(AP) - Blues superstar B.B. King is returning to the grounds of the old Mississippi Delta cotton gin where as…
February 23, 2012
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi House has voted to name part of Interstate 55 for blues great Robert Johnson,…
February 21, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mick Jagger, B.B. King and Jeff Beck are teaming up with musical up-and-comers at the White House…
December 16, 2011
RIVERSIDE, California (AP) -- "At Last" and "Tell Mama" blues singer Etta James, whose health has been fading in recent…
September 6, 2011
CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) - It's not the Heartbreak Hotel or the Ritz, and George Washington didn't sleep there...
August 29, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Grammy-winning Blues musician David "Honey Boy" Edwards, believed to be the oldest surviving Delta bluesman and whose…
August 8, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - He celebrated his 75th birthday on July 30...
May 19, 2011
VIDEO - Rolling Fork, Miss., the hometown of legendary blues musician Muddy Waters, could be sitting underwater...
May 13, 2011
RIVERSIDE, Calif (AP) - The 73-year-old suffers from dementia, leukemia, kidney problems and other ailments...
February 28, 2011
CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) - An 88-year-old blues legend known as the "Gypsy of the Blues" was killed in Florida…
February 14, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Perkins snagged a statue Sunday for best traditional blues album for "Joined at the Hip: Pinetop…
December 17, 2010
Blues singers have been celebrating the festive season since the magisterial Bessie Smith revealed that "everyone must watch their step...…
December 17, 2010
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Staples was born on a farm near Winona on Dec. 28, 1914. He began playing blues…
January 9, 2010
Jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson can easily explain why the Mississippi Blues Trail would embrace jazz artists...
June 10, 2009
Blues legend David “Honeyboy” Edwards continues to share his music with audiences across America. Grammy award winning Edwards is one
June 4, 2009
Koko Taylor, a sharecropper’s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet “Queen of the Blues,” died
June 3, 2009
CARYN ROUSSEAU Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Koko Taylor, a sharecropper’s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned