Music is coming back to one Mid-South community and hopefully, the tourists are coming back with it. COVID-19 forced the cancellation of the annual Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi, but ...

The Blues are back in the Delta. After a year off because of the pandemic, the Juke Joint Festival kicked off in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Thursday. It's Clarksdale's biggest event, drawing about ...

With the Juke Joint Festival, a Mississippi city aims to lose its economic blues In Mississippi’s Clarksdale, the heart of the rural Delta, a celebration of the blues has been drawing thousands of ...

The blues, like Lloyd “Teddy” Johnson, was born in the modest front rooms of rural shacks and shotguns where Black folks gave life to and nurtured a sound that was part music, part heart and part ...

In Clarksdale, epicenter of the blues, this year's Juke Joint Festival has everything from legendary blues singers like Grammy-winner David "Honeyboy" Edwards, all the way to racing pigs and monkeys ...

Teddy's Fest, a music festival to support the legendary Zachary music venue Teddy's Juke Joint, kicks off Friday. Lloyd “Teddy” Johnson operates the popular music hot spot but COVID-19 dealt a ...

In the early 1990s, I often took a cheap Southwest Airlines flight from my native Dayton, Ohio to Chicago in search of down-home blues venues like Lee’s Unleaded and Rosa’s. Then, in 1995, my ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- In Clarksdale, epicenter of the blues, this year's Juke Joint Festival has everything from legendary blues singers like Grammy-winner David "Honeyboy" Edwards, all the way to racing ...