It stretches for almost two miles, rising right up out of the Mississippi River. Beale Street. It’s where gamblers lived and died, hookers hooked and killers got away with it. For the first half of the 20thcentury, there was nowhere else you’d rather be….

This week is packed full of blues happenings, from birthdays to a handful of New Orleans Blues milestones to Chicago and Hill Country blues luminaries!

Dixon, born in Virginia Beach, Virginia on July 26, 1942, was celebrated for his soaring, soulful multi-octave vocals and his driving…

Willie “Popsy” Dixon, drummer and vocalist of the critically acclaimed soul/blues band The Holmes Brothers, has been diagnosed with stage four bladder cancer.

After a holiday hiatus, we’re back with the latest weekly happenings in blues history… including Slim Harpo! Jimmy Page! The passing of a Howlin’ titan, and even the Flying V. Check it all out…

Dennis McNally’s ah-ha moment in deciding to write his book, On Highway 61 – Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom, came after Bob Dylan’s comments.

Joe Cocker, the famed singer/songwriter whose hits included “You Are So Beautiful” and the renown Beatles cover “With A Little Help from my Friends”, has passed away.

“That’s what attracted me to Magic Sam. His style. Then with Otis Rush, his tone was just outstanding. I would sit there and watch him all night.”

Until August 10, 1920, record companies didn’t even try to sell music to—or by—black people. But on that day Mamie Smith, a 37-year-old medicine show singer from Cincinnati, barreled into a New York studio.

Hear Mississippi Heat call up the “La Cucaracha” ghost of Big Walter Horton on this highly-danceable, brand new track!