When I learned Mississippi had a Blues Trail honoring the people and places that secured the music's legacy, I booked a flight from my home in London. The state's Blues Trail began in 2006 with ...

Mississippi, dubbed the birthplace of America’s music, is a goldmine for rising and legendary talent — making the Coast a ...

The occasion is a good excuse to sojourn through the Delta on the Mississippi Blues Trail from tiny Clarksdale to Jackson, the state capital, with stops in Greenwood, Cleveland and Indianola.

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner.

CLARKSDALE, Miss. — Bluesman Robert Johnson played the guitar with such genius that legend has it his talent was a gift from the devil in exchange for the musician's soul. That deal was done ...

The Mississippi Blues Trail was created in 2006 by the Mississippi Blues Commission, to place interpretive markers at notable historical sites related to the blues music. History and music combine ...

A show at Red's, a juke joint in Clarksdale, Miss., where it's advertised that you can see live blues seven nights a week. (Kirk Siegler/NPR) CLARKSDALE, Miss. — Bluesman Robert Johnson played ...

Luckett and Wiley worry many who travel the Mississippi Blues Trail are only getting the warm and fuzzy version, with the difficult fuller history edited out — how blues was born from oppression ...

This is partly why people like Tim Lampkin think civil rights tourism on the scale of the blues trail in the Mississippi Delta may be premature. "I don't know fully if we're ready because the ...