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The Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival is an annual music festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi.It is held the second weekend in August, lasting three days. Created as the Sunflower Riverbank Blues Festival in 1988, the festival features veteran and homegrown performers, attracting blues enthusiast from all over the world.
The Mississippi Blues Trail was created by the Mississippi Blues Commission in 2006 to place interpretive markers at the most notable historical sites related to the birth, growth, and influence of the blues throughout (and in some cases beyond) the state of Mississippi. Within the state the trail extends from the Gulf Coast north along several ...
Singer and guitarist, mostly active around Leland and Greenville, Mississippi, in the 1940s and early 1950s. [ 6 ] Ishmon Bracey (January 9, 1889, Byram, Mississippi – February 12, 1970). Early country blues and Delta blues guitarist and vocalist. [ 7 ] Willie Brown (August 6, 1900 – December 30, 1952).
The Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States, is a museum dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing public access to and awareness of the musical genre known as the blues. Along with holdings of significant blues-related memorabilia, the museum also exhibits and collects art portraying the blues tradition, including ...
Mississippi is best known as the home of the blues which developed among the freed African Americans in the latter half of the 19th century and beginning 20th century. The Delta blues is the style most closely associated with the state, and includes performers like Charley Patton, Robert Johnson (buried in Greenwood, MS), David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Willie Brown, Tommy Johnson, Ishmon Bracey, Bo ...
Blue Front Cafe. The Blue Front Café is a historic old juke joint made of cinder block in Bentonia, Mississippi on Highway 49, approximately 30 miles northwest of Jackson, which played an important role in the development of the blues in Mississippi. [1] The café has been given a marker [2][3] and officially placed on the Mississippi Blues ...
muddywatersofficial.com. McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), [1][2] known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues ". [3] His style of playing has been described as ...
1993–present. Labels. Alligator Records. Website. www.jarekus.com. Jarekus Singleton (born July 11, 1984, in Clinton, Mississippi, United States) is an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. Refuse To Lose was his first nationally and internationally distributed album. It was released on the Chicago-based independent blues record ...