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