The composer and musician Raphael Saadiq, nominated for best score and best song at the Oscars this year, talk to THR about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original ...

Waterfront Blues Festival returns July 2-4, 2026 with a lineup spanning five continents and six decades, performing for ...

THIS 12TH YEAR EVENT INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE EXPERIENCE HENDRIX SET WITH JOE BONAMASSA & KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD AND AN ...

Like most music, the blues was not a sudden spontaneous inspiration. Rather, it is a progression of musical styles that ...

This year's festival will run three days, from July 2-4. Here's a look which artists will perform.

Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North. Sheer joy of ...

For Buddy Guy — a stalwart and staunch defender of the blues — there’s nothing more important than keeping his chosen genre at the forefront of conversation. It comes naturally: Guy is one of ...

Before he arrived at the Old Joliet Prison south of Chicago, now the Joliet Area Historical Museum, Erik Devereux made sure his ensemble was in appropriate Blues Brothers order. The basics weren’t a ...

When the Jacksons wound up their 1975 tour with a show in Mexico City, the group delivered everything anyone would have expected: the hits (from “I Want You Back” and “ABC” through Michael’s “Ben”), ...

Warning: This essay contains spoilers for the film Sinners. Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan as the twins Smoke and Stack, who have returned to Clarksdale, Miss., intent on opening a juke joint after ...