The story of a folk art form with roots in Africa and emergence in the Mississippi Delta, which became the essence of ...

Najee Dorsey's art explores southern stories at Black Art In America exhibition. Discover the textured narrative of his work.

Blues music has long been linked to the mystical or supernatural. After all, the seminal Blues tale is of legend Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads of U.S. Highways 49 and ...

The Dead Daisies burst onto the music scene. Their mission, to create some good old fashioned 70’s style rock, gather some of the ...

Richard Kurin, now a distinguished scholar at the Smithsonian, remembers Long during the 1990 Festival of American Folklife. In one tent, Long was telling tourists, “We’re in a church in Mississippi, ...

Having felt the pain of lost love, PJ Harvey commits to a baptism of fire to carry love over endless obstacles.

The movie is based on the believable theory that music or especially gifted musicians can conjure up magic through their ...

"Sinners" director Ryan Coogler comes down to Clarksdale, Miss., to host a series of special series of film that's based off ...

Dig deeper into the Delta blues with these documentaries about legendary musicians Robert Johnson, Charley Patton and Howlin' ...

"Hellhounds on My Trail: The Afterlife of Robert Johnson" (2000 ... s a very different one from ‘Deep Blues,’ it’s covering some of the same artists and same territory,” Mugge said.

The legendary Robert Johnson, a blues icon, whose life story of struggle ... His music reminds us that the most powerful art often comes from the most broken places. That even when life beats ...