By Susannah Broun for The Daily Yonder. Broadcast version by Trimmel Gomes for Mississippi News Connection for the Public ...

By looking back at your line of influences, you can find the wisdom to navigate moments of indecision and turmoil.

Clarksdale, Mississippi, is known as the birthplace of the blues. The small town in the heart of the Mississippi Delta is ...

The six 2025 inductees grow the Hall of Fame’s list of members to 112. Since its launch in 2012, the Hall of Fame has enshrined Memphis music icons from across the musical spect ...

Hall of Fame class includes a Stax hitmaker, blues icon, broadcasting executive and more. Here is a closer look at the six ...

like Robert Johnson, are colourfully painted onto the sides of buildings, reminding people of the history of the streets where they walk. One of those streets used to be home to Delta Blues Alley ...

The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner. In this flat, green region known as the Delta ... was that of Robert Johnson, one of ...

As I drive my rented Dodge Hornet south on Highway 61 across the flat Mississippi Delta, the region ... it’s where trailblazing blues performer Robert Johnson (1911-1938) sold his soul to ...

The legendary Robert Johnson, a blues icon, whose life story of struggle and talent, particularly the myth of a deal with the devil at a crossroads, continues to inspire. His profound influence on ...

Delta blues music, a style born in the Mississippi ... Pioneering artists like Charley Patton, Son House, and Robert Johnson, who were active or influential during the 1930s setting of the film ...

It’s a classic kind of Delta blues idea. It was — what was the ... because I can’t think about what it is now… Robert Johnson’s “Me and the Devil,” that was the name of the song ...