Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. JACKSON, Miss. — Blues is inspired by place — the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once ...

A massive and closely held collection of blues music and research from the 1950s and 60s is seeing the light of day. The collection is from Robert "Mack" McCormick, who died in 2015 at age 85 and ...

Did you know that Paste owns the world’s largest collection of live music recordings? It’s true! And what’s even crazier, it’s all free—hundreds of thousands of exclusive songs, concerts and videos ...

When Christone "Kingfish" Ingram first stopped by World Cafe in 2019, he was rightfully hailed as a guitar prodigy and the future of the blues. Well, the future has finally arrived. The Clarksdale, ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — Nine big men sit attentively at their desks inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary—the once infamous prison labor colony known as Parchman Farm. They're wearing green-and-white ...

“If Greaseland Studios is our office, Poor House is our living room,” said Kid Andersen, neatly summing up the deep ties between the Bay Area’s preeminent blues and roots music recording facility and ...

The 44th annual Blues Music Awards took place Thursday night in Memphis and Marshfield keyboardist Anthony Geraci again was named the instrumentalist of the year, aka The Pinetop Perkins Piano Player ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...