The Blues are back in the Delta. After a year off because of the pandemic, the Juke Joint Festival kicked off in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Thursday. It's Clarksdale's biggest event, drawing about ...

On the surface, downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi, looks largely the same as it did decades ago: a collection of historic brick buildings lining wide avenues faded to postcard sepia. But local Bubba ...

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INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

In the early years of the 20th century, a young and struggling Mississippi native who longed to master the blues guitar stood at the crossroads outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, and made a deal with ...

I like to think I can claim Clarksdale as part of “my” Mississippi. I’ve stayed at the Shack Up Inn, partied at Ground Zero Blues Club and even toured the Cutrer Mansion, where playwright Tennessee ...

Musicians in Clarksdale have escaped the blues from not getting paid. While many of the clubs are shut down, virtual gigs allow performers to get paid. Have questions about the spread of coronavirus?

Portland's Waterfront Blues Festival is the biggest west of the Mississippi River and among scores that pop up nationwide each year. But all those blues had to come from somewhere. To find the cradle ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. The fate of Clarksdale, Mississippi is very much not settled.

Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant is heading to Clarksdale, Miss., this weekend to headline the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival in the historic Delta blues town he recorded a song ...

Editor’s Note: In September 2002, Sheri Gaynor, Andy Putnam and their black lab, Feats, rented their Glenwood Springs home and traveled across America for a year in a 24-foot trailer, writing, ...