Although U.S. 61 begins in New Orleans and runs through Baton Rouge, the portion known as the Blues Highway starts around Vicksburg, Mississippi, and moves north through the Delta to Memphis, ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...

But while the music spread and evolved in the decades that followed, the roots of the blues remain firmly entrenched in the Delta's fertile soil. For many here in the South, the blues is more than a ...

Finish your tour of the Delta with a trip to the Gateway to the Blues Museum located in a historic depot. Here, visitors learn about the music, the people and the culture through hundreds of artifacts ...