One town in this region, Greenwood, would make the perfect base while you explore the renowned Mississippi Blues Trail, a ...

If you would love to settle down in a lake town but think you can't afford it, think again. This affordable lake town is the ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner. In ...

Paul, it turns out, runs a blues festival in Maine and is fanatical about the music genre's history. Paul has visited every marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. My goal is more modest-a weeklong ...

We’d never really thought of ourselves as fans of the blues (the music, not the hockey team). But then a few years ago, driving through Mississippi, we decided on a whim to visit the B.B. King Museum ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Blues Trail is going international. Mississippi has erected more than 150 Blues Trail markers to highlight the music and its influence on Mississippi. A marker to ...

TUNICA, Miss. (AP) -- Gov. Haley Barbour will unveil a marker designating U.S. 61 as part of the Mississippi Blues Trail on Thursday. The route roughly follows the Mississippi River and runs through ...

Whether you're planning an in-state staycation or are looping through Mississippi as part of a longer road trip, there are lots of fun places to explore with great food and friendly people nearby.

King — better known as B.B. King — was born on a cotton plantation outside tiny Itta Bena, destined to reign as the ...

TUNICA, Miss. (AP) – In cotton country a couple miles east of the Mississippi River, just off a road known as the blues highway, fourth graders at Tunica Elementary School are exploring the Delta’s ...