The Mississippi Blues Trail highlights the most notable sites involved in the birth, growth, and influence of blues.

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16 WAPT'S OMOSE IGHODARO WAS AT THE MISSISSIPPI BLUES MARATHON AND HAS MORE. STANDUP: THIS IS THE 19TH EDITION OF THE BLUES MARATHON EVENT AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SHOWED UP SATURDAY MORNING. RUNNERS ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Egg in Albany will be hosting an evening of blues with singer and songwriter Shemekia Copeland. The concert is scheduled for May 22 at 8 p.m. Get the latest news, weather, ...

The latest feature from filmmaking duo Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel ('La Pivellina') follows an 80-year-old Austrian musician obliged to let go of the past. By Jordan Mintzer A bluesy trip down ...

Ma Rainey is best known, but Ida Cox, Cora Mae Bryant, Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins and Precious Bryant left essential music. From left to right: Ma Rainey, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Ida Cox, Precious ...

Mike Bloomfield is remembered for being one of the most talented American blues guitarists and composers of the 1960s and 1970s. He was a legend, one that played with countless Chicago blues musicians ...

Fans of country and blues singer Nat Myers are sending love his way after he took to social media to remember the start of his battle against incurable cancer while also revealing a disturbing social ...

Country and blues singer Nat Myers has been sharing his brave battle against an incurable cancer diagnosis for a year now, and he took time to remember that recently on social media. He also revealed ...

Marsha Evans & the Coalition perform Sept. 3, 2017, at the Big Muddy Blues Festival on Laclede's Landing. ST. LOUIS — Blues and R&B vocalist Marsha Evans died on Tuesday. She was 75. January 16, 2011 ...

LOS ANGELES — Brad Arnold, the lead singer of the Grammy-nominated rock band 3 Doors Down, died Saturday, months after he announced that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer. He was 47.

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 ...