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 ...
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 ...
While it's a lesser-known stop on the Mississippi Blues Trail, music fans shouldn't skip this city that's surrounded by ...
Only a kid at the time, Charlie Musselwhite remembers the bustle of weekends in downtown Clarksdale, Miss. "Saturday was the day everybody came to town," he recalls. "They'd come in wagons pulled by ...
A new list has ranked the 50 Best Dive Bars in America. A legendary blues club took Mississippi's spot as the best dive around. The top 50 were picked by Huckberry, a clothing store and media brand, ...
Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram has announced he’s launching a new label specifically for blues and blues-influenced artists. Red Zero is named after two of the earliest places Ingram played in Clarksdale ...
Want more good news in your inbox? Sign up for the Black Joy newsletter to bring more joy into your life. New issues every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The residents of Clarksdale, Miss., have really ...
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, musical heir to a long line of blues greats from the Mississippi Delta, has been compared to the likes of B.B. King. But while the legendary guitarist is one of Ingram's ...
Only a kid at the time, Charlie Musselwhite remembers the bustle of weekends in downtown Clarksdale, Miss. ''Saturday was the day everybody came to town,'' he recalls. ''They'd come in wagons pulled ...