The Oscar winner released “Death Letter Blues” with Taj Mahal on Juneteenth ahead of his upcoming project, “Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic ...

Since 2001, actor and narrator Morgan Freeman has owned and operated Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, celebrating blues music in the birthplace of the artform. Located just about a ...

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 ...

Mahal says the future of the blues depends on remembering its origins, from the Mississippi Delta to "the mother continent," ...

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 ...

Schauspieler Morgan Freeman startet musikalisch durch: Der Oscarpreisträger bringt im August sein erstes eigenes Blues-Projekt heraus. Das Album trägt den Titel »Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues ...

Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North. Sheer joy of ...

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 ...

New to the blues? Here’s what you need to know to get you started. Blues music is a genre that grew out of the American dream. Its roots were firmly planted in the New World before it migrated to ...

Nashville's jazz and blues scene is alive and well. Music City is home to many intimate clubs, bars and live music venues ...

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 ...