Guido van Rijn is a Dutch blues and gospel historian. His major historical work is a set of six books that examine the way blues and gospel artists experienced eleven 20th-century American presidents and their [...]
From the 1960s until the 1980s, George Mitchell traveled throughout the South and recorded blues musicians such as Jessie Mae Hemphill, Fred McDowell, Johnny Woods, George Henry Bussey, Jim Bunkley, Charlie Burse, Will Shade, Gus [...]
Shelley Ritter has been the executive director of the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale for nearly a decade. However, before that, Ms. Ritter was the first archivist with Elvis Presley Enterprises from 1990 to 1995, [...]
Opened in 2004, this is a live performance museum housed in Place Concorde at the Oasis Pub, a 175-seat venue, where the Canada South Blues Society inducts each honoree before a full house. Once the [...]
Eric LeBlanc combined his love of blues, jazz, and discographical data. Though he has been active since 1968 in blues radio in Canada, Eric understood that proper verification of the music’s vital statistics is necessary. [...]
The Shack Up Inn is nestled three miles south of the Hwy 61 and Hwy 49 crossroads outside Clarksdale on one of the oldest cotton farms in Mississippi, the former Hopson Plantation. These down-home accommodations [...]
The first time most of us traveled to Mississippi on a Blues pilgrimage, the directions went something like this. “Turn left at the second cotton field, follow the dirt road for a bit and look [...]
Sam Phillips said, 'When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said, 'this is where the soul of man never dies.'' No one, not even Robert Johnson at his haunted best, came close to capturing the feeling [...]
The River Music Experience is a one of a kind center located in downtown Davenport, Iowa. The mission of the River Music Experience is to present a one-of-a-kind entertainment experience that celebrates American roots music [...]
What began in 1990 as Tim Duffys dream was born for real in January of 1994. Music Maker Relief Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of [...]