The delta is beginning to cool off in mid-October and with the cotton in full bloom, an ancient, tiny sharecropper shack that boasts cold beer & low ceilings with monkeys nailed to it brings the best that the blues has to offer.

Find out the origins of the word “Chump” in the blues, as sang by Blind Blake!

Not a lot happens in Bogalusa, Louisiana, but on Friday, that all changed with a hit festival featuring some of the best performers in the world!

Malco Theater hosts the popular event with an all-star blues team at noon on Saturday, October 12, 2013

Second annual event to feature three weekends of live music and hundreds of musicians, from Gregg Allman and Robert Cray to Tim McGraw and Bobby Rush.

From great tragedy after a lifelong bond comes Ken DeRouchie’s latest accomplishment.

A delay in accepting a several thousand dollar Buy-It-Now offer results in a bidding war that netted an 825% higher buying price.

Find out the origins of the famous “Chitlin Circuit”!

Pick this up as soon as you can get your hands on it! This is a delightfully sophisticated, rocking, funky, 55 minute smorgasbord of sound that will be schooling folks for years to come.

In anticipation of Robert’s upcoming speech in Saint Louis for the National Blues Museum, we sat down to discuss his museum work, the influence (and lack of influence) the blues has had on popular music, his writing, and the special things that make music museums truly great.