BENTONIA, Miss. — With callused hands, Jimmy "Duck" Holmes plucks an old acoustic guitar at the juke joint his parents started more than 70 years ago. He checks the cafe's inventory: jars of pickled ...

Some had traveled a long way, like the tourists with heavy British accents milling around in a group. Others were homegrown: one man, stirring a large, well-used gumbo pot on a propane ring burner ...

Singer-songwriter Ryan Lee Crosby calls his latest album an “authentically made modern-day analog field recording of a century-old blues tradition.” The new album, “At the Blue Front,” was released ...

BENTONIA, Miss. (AP) — With callused hands, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plucks an old acoustic guitar at the juke joint his parents started more than 70 years ago. He checks the cafe’s inventory: jars of ...

The Bentonia blues coursed through the Eagles Club on Saturday night as Winona musician Mike Munson joined Mississippi blues legend Jimmy “Duck” Holmes on stage as part of Mid West Music Fest. With ...

Ryan Lee Crosby felt struck by lightning three times in his life. At age 13, when he first picked up a harmonica to play the blues. (“It was a struck-by-lightning moment, where I knew, ‘Oh, I’m going ...