In 2005, fans and scholars of early jazz and blues were handed the keys to a buried treasure chest: an eight-CD set of recordings that New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton had made at the Library of ...

The blues is ripe with legends and myths, not least the oft-touted claim that W.C. Handy was the father of the blues. But as Darryl. W. Bullock tells it, there is an important tract of blues history ...

It is hard to overstate the impact of the ‘60s British blues guitar scene, when a new generation of guitar heroes mined the original source of blues playing and put their own spin on it. In doing so, ...

DOM FLEMONS: This is a collection that was just - it was known as The Monster. DETROW: That's blues musician Dom Flemons. FLEMONS: You know, you always hear that for each musician that recorded, there ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods; it's ...

Blues Fest Spotlights Luther Kent: 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Visit Baton Rouge Swamp Blues Stage New Orleans native Kent moved to Baton Rouge when he was 13 years old. But by then, he’d soaked up the ...