The movie Sinners takes place in Clarksdale, Miss., but its residents can't watch it without leaving town. Now the movie is ...

The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner.

Sammie's character in Sinners is heavily inspired by legendary musician Robert Johnson, with both of them living lives that share many similarities.

For a vacation steeped in America's blues history and tradition, there may be no better place to visit than this iconic Mississippi country inn.

As I drive my rented Dodge Hornet south on Highway 61 across the flat Mississippi Delta, the region’s famous native son B.B. King croons “Why I Sing the Blues” on the radio. Music that sprung from ...

When Robert Leroy Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi on or around May ... roll their eyes when blues enthusiasts ask about the crossroads where Johnson supposedly met the Devil.

the Mississippi-based Fat Possum label began releasing new records by those musicians, which found favor with young and hip listeners; meanwhile, the 1990 CD box set "Robert Johnson: The Complete ...

One of the most famous legends about Robert Johnson is the “crossroads” story According ... it was Highway 61 and Highway 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi). There, he met a shadowy figure ...

Mississippi-born Robert Johnson is known as the King of the Delta Blues. Legend has it that he was a decent musician until he met the Devil at the Crossroads and sold his soul. After that ...

Did that great bluesman, Robert Leroy Johnson (1911-1938), travel to the crossroads of Highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi? There, at midnight, so the legend goes, did he get down on his ...