Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bukka White plays guitar, accompanied by Jimmy Crosthwait on washboard, during a Memphis Blues Festival performance at the Overton ...

Mississippi and Mid-South artists Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Eden Brent were among the winners at the annual Blues Music Awards on May 7. The 47th edition of the BMA honors — presented by the ...

Starting Tuesday, Downtown Memphis will come alive with the sound of blues from across the country, and all over the world. The 38th edition of the annual International Blues Challenge will bring more ...

Glide over the "Home of the Blues" with this soulful drone journey across Memphis, Tennessee. The flight begins over the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The historic home of the blues, Beale Street is an iconic, brick-lined thoroughfare packed with all kinds of juke joints, shops ...

On May 5, the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival will launch a new stage in its history. Literally. The “Memphis Tourism Blues Stage on Beale” relocates the festival’s popular Blues Tent theme ...

Nearly everyone has heard about Woodstock and the US Festival, but the same can’t be said for the Memphis Country Blues Festival. Depending on the year, the annual gathering held in Memphis between ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. A still from 'The Blues Society.' Mention the historic music festivals ...

Jane Wilson samples the city’s sublime sounds and sweet flavours ...

Bukka White and Jimmy Crosthwait onstage at the the Overton Park Shell in The Blues Society. (Photo: Randall Lyon | courtesy of The Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane) I felt like it was like the zombie ...

The Memphis Blues Box: Original Recordings 1914-1969 (Photo: Courtesy Bear Family Records) Many have spoken of a “Memphis sound” that permeates the playing of musicians who grew up here, yet the ...