Browsing: Mississippi

The main event of the evening was Mac Arnold and Plate Full O’ Blues. Arnold and his band gave the crowd a set of Chicago blues that was kickin’!

The Juke Joint Festival, Thursday, April 11th through Saturday, April 16th, in Clarksdale, Mississippi is the unofficial blues festival season kickoff, and American Blues Scene will be covering the event in it’s entirety!

Every now and then a back-to-basics blues album is issued and we are amazed at how effective simplicity really is. Guitars, vocals, and the music itself. This is just such an album. Hans Theessink & Terry Evans’ Delta Time is intimate blues. Simple, beautiful, bare-bones intimate, and inspiring.

The headstone of Mississippi Delta Blues legend Tommy Johnson was desecrated just months after finally being placed on his grave in what appears to be a deliberate act of vandalism — 45 years after he was buried.

Blues and music enthusiasts will enjoy over 25 never before seen photos of local and national musicians displayed as part of the “Blues & Beyond” exhibit opening on Thursday, September 13!

NOW, get a sneak peek of the B.B. King Museum’s VERY FIRST “Conversation with the King” exclusively at the American Blues Scene!

Bringing it back where it began, this week blues fans get to combine history with the greatest delta music

New information on the condition of the great delta bluesman.

The Gateway to the Blues, nestled on Highway 61 not far from where 69 merges on Tunica, is the latest must-stop for blues fans in their excursion through the rich musical magic that exists in the Mississippi Delta.

“We Juke Up in Here” is latest production from the makers of the award-winning 2008 film “M For Mississippi”