Delta Blues Museum Director Shelley Ritter, who has been at the helm since 2003 and just received the Dr. Martin Luther King Keeping the Dream Alive Award says, “The Museum has grown into a ...

Hit the Mississippi Blues Trail this summer with our guide to 9 must-visit towns that bring the soul, sound, and story of American blues to life.

Mostly, the museum seeks to involve Delta people in their culture. ”I was walking down the street the other day, and three little black kids yelled at me and asked if the blues museum was open ...

The museum traces the birth of the “blues” in the Mississippi Delta, highlighting musicians like B.B. King. “I had seen him in the UK,” said Storey.

The Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale was honored Thursday with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail.The Delta Blues Museum was founded on Jan. 31, 1979. It moved to its current site in a former ...

CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — The Delta Blues Museum of Clarksdale is one of 10 to across the country to be honored with National Medal for Museum and Library Service from the Institute of Museum and ...

The Delta Blues Museum was founded on Jan. 31, 1979. It moved to its current site in a former railroad depot in 1999. The museum’s exhibits pay tribute to the history of the blues.

On their agenda: Clarksdale, 48 miles north of Indianola, to visit the Delta Blues Museum, where one exhibit includes remnants of the cabin in which bluesman Muddy Waters lived as a sharecropper ...

I wake up, look at blue y z. Eli is in his late 80s and still performs his signature Delta blues tunes that helped put Ferriday on the musical map in the 1950s, Y Z performed at Haney's Big House ...

King's museum is the latest attraction for the state's blues tourism industry, which ironically thrives because so little has changed in the predominantly black Delta since King, Muddy Waters ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- Delta Blues Casino President Charles Preiser, who once toiled for Donald Trump in the Atlantic City Taj Mahal, received Mississippi Gaming Commission final approval this week for ...

My final day in the Delta, I take another drive to Indianola, best known as B.B. King’s birthplace, and then visit the Highway 61 Blues Museum in Leland, crammed with blues artifacts like a pair ...