The 16th edition of the New York State Blues Fest kicked off just now in Clinton Square in a quite appropriate manner. With his steel guitar, Mark Tolstrup of Saratoga Springs entertained the early ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...

Although U.S. 61 begins in New Orleans and runs through Baton Rouge, the portion known as the Blues Highway starts around Vicksburg, Mississippi, and moves north through the Delta to Memphis, ...

Nashville, Austin, New Orleans, Chicago, and New York are some of the more notable American locations for music. However, the location that partially gave these places their music: the Mississippi ...

Most would say it's the humidity that makes the Mississippi air feel so thick. I believe it's the ghosts. Ghosts haunt Mississippi with stories, lifetimes of stories — told with words, or in song over ...