As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. JACKSON, Miss. — Blues is inspired by place — the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once ...

Ryan Lee Crosby felt struck by lightning three times in his life. At age 13, when he first picked up a harmonica to play the blues. (“It was a struck-by-lightning moment, where I knew, ‘Oh, I’m going ...

Blues in the Schools came to Jane Addams Elementary School as blues musician Hal Reed made a stop. Reed is a lifetime member ...

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, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner. In ...

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The richness of Mississippi may be best expressed not through its amazing food or beautiful vistas, but through its music, the Magnolia State has encompassed it all. Mississippi is so pivotal and so ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- After 20 years together, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney like to have things “sneak up on us” for the Black Keys. And that’s exactly what happened with the Akron-formed duo’s new ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...