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On Friday, a young Mississippi musician took the stage at Ground Zero Blues Club to put on a show that he will never forget.
Holmes is one of the last bluesmen who play a style known as Bentonia blues. Timothy Ivy On a pale morning in Bentonia, Mississippi, a village of 400-odd souls, one of the few signs of life are ...
A new Mississippi Blues Trail Marker is honoring a local blues legend.Visit Mississippi held a ceremony unveiling the marker outside the Iron Horse Grill on West Pearl Street in downtown Jackson on ...
The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...