CARBONDALE – Steve’s Guitars has booked consecutive nights of live music by national touring acts this weekend, followed by a special Tuesday gig with the Mississippi Delta blues of Reverend Peyton’s ...

King — better known as B.B. King — was born on a cotton plantation outside tiny Itta Bena, destined to reign as the ...

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 ...

Acclaimed for singing and acting in the Oscar-winning movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and winning a Grammy for his work on ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Charles “D.C.” Carnes found a fitting way to pay tribute to the late Robert Lockwood, Jr. Carnes, a longtime guitarist in Lockwood’s band, named his new album, “Delta Crossroads - ...

In the 47 years since Bonnie Raitt released her debut album, one thing hasn’t changed for the guitarist and singer: a deep, abiding love of the Delta blues. “One person on a guitar or slide guitar is ...

Eric Clapton may have carved out his own lane in blues rock, but he still knows when to pay homage to one of the kings of ...

Delta blues guitarist David "Honeyboy" Edwards is one of the few living links to the mythic bluesman Robert Johnson. If playing with the man who (as legend has it) sold his soul to devil wasn't enough ...

Delta blues is as much legend as it is music. In the popular telling, blues articulated the hopelessness and poverty of an isolated, oppressed people through music that was disconnected from popular ...

A few years ago, blues guitarist Eric Bibb was approached by a fan carrying a guitar case. In that guitar case was a 1930s vintage Resophonic National guitar once belonging to blues legend Booker ...