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It’s appropriate that when ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons makes his appearance at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale this Wednesday, April 9 th, he will be celebrating both the creation of the “Muddywood ...

In July 1974 a group of Chicago based blues artists who had already achieved legendary status gathered together with some of their younger blues brethren from all over the country to pay tribute to ...

HARTMAN WILL HAVE YOUR FULL FORECAST IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. THIS YEAR MARKS 100 YEARS OF CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH. THAT’S RIGHT. A TRADITION THAT BEGAN AS JUST A WEEK IN 1926. IT GREW INTO AN ...

I don’t think it really hit any of us until we were about to sit down to a home-cooked meal made by the same woman who had prepared food for the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and B.B. King when ...

Today marks the 41 st anniversary of the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the world’s first museum dedicated to preserving the Blues of the past (and the state’s oldest music museum).

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Before and after: The first marker was ripped away by the tornado and hasn't been found; the replacement stands proud, conveying some of the mystery that will always surround the blues legend. L: ...

This story was originally posted in our sister paper, the Village Voice. Muddy Waters Restored in Rolling Fork: The March tornado that destroyed the Mississippi hamlet near the birthplace of blues ...