Mississippi Fred McDowell was no Delta blues singer. His blues were North ... to allow people to listen to the brilliance of his slide guitar playing in the North Mississippi hill tradition.

Considered a delta blues classic ... Brett Milano This Mississippi bluesman was famed for playing an unorthodox nine-string guitar and in 1935 he recorded (under the name Joe Williams’ Washboard ...

Mike Milligan has produced blues fests in Indianapolis and Kokomo and is bringing one — the first Bloomington Winter Blues Fest — on Feb. 15 to the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. He has invited King Bee & ...

EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Collins Entertainment and Concord Originals are partnering on a biopic of Robert Johnson, the influential ...

A new biopic based on the life of legendary blues singer Robert Johnson is in the works from Jesse Collins Entertainment and ...

While traveling through the South collecting music for the Library of Congress, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax ventured onto ...

Historians estimate the future blues icon was born in the spring of 1911 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi ... the devil in exchange for mastery of Delta blues guitar was made all the more eerie after ...

Mississippi MacDonald is an award-winning British Soul-Blues singer/songwriter/guitarist with an impressive pedigree and he’s coming to town this weekend. He plays Arlington Arts on Saturday.

The blues giant also called Stevie Ray Vaughan "one of the greatest" and raved about B.B. King and Muddy Waters in this ...

A breathtaking fusion of blues, jazz, folk, classical and Spanish guitar from a stunning guitar virtuoso” comes to Barnoldswick on February 13.

Finally, head to the Memorial Courtyard to pay tribute to the final resting place of the King of the Blues, where you’ll find a life-size bronze of B.B. King holding his beloved guitar, Lucille. Pin ...