Untutored Yanks like me are sometimes surprised to learn that the fertile Mississippi River Delta extends all the way up to Memphis, Tennessee. But the influence of Mississippi—both the river and the ...

Sept. 16, 2025, will be a milestone in the history of Memphis and American music, as it marks what would have been B.B. King’s 100th birthday. To all who ever heard him play, King was the one true ...

The Memphis Music Hall of Fame will officially welcome a new class of inductees on Sept. 25. The latest class is led by Stax Records hitmaker Johnnie Taylor, blues icon Robert Johnson, guitarist, ...

Four-time Grammy-winning singer/guitarist Gary Clark Jr. will perform three nights at Hernando's Hideaway in Memphis.

MEMPHIS — Another untimely turnover and sloppy tackling doomed the Arkansas Razorbacks to a devastating defeat again on Saturday. Memphis won the turnover battle 3-2 by forcing a game-clinching fumble ...

Houston High School sophomore Elijah Jones was recently selected to join the prestigious Memphis Blues Drum Corps. Jones, a trumpet player, was among several students from multiple states auditioning ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1912, William Christopher Handy’s “Memphis Blues of Mister Crump”, went on sale in Memphis. Although the first 1,000 copies sold out in three days, Handy was told that the song ...