Mighty Roots Music Festival Line-Up Announced

May 10th, 2021 | by TLV News

New event set to take place in the Mississippi Delta Bringing some much-needed good news to music fans across the

The Black Keys Release R.L. Burnside Cover Song Video Featuring Local Musicians Kenny Brown and Eric Deaton

May 7th, 2021 | by TLV News

World renowned duo The Black Keys are set to release a new album May 14 featuring covers of Mississippi Blues

May 19th, 2020 | by TLV News

New Music Festival Announced for October in the Mississippi Delta—America’s first socially distanced festival? Mighty Roots Music Festival Is Coming

April 13th, 2020 | by TLV News

Delta Blues Museum Director Shelley Ritter is announcing plans for a forthcoming “virtual tour” of the Museum, in response to

June 25th, 2019 | by TLV News

by Michael Newsom Field hollers, traditional African American church music and songs by a tractor driver who later became one

March 26th, 2019 | by Michael Ray

Many places lay claim to the title of the “Home of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Cleveland, Ohio, has The Rock and

December 8th, 2015 | by Rafael Alvarez

“Muddy’s actual birthplace [was not Rolling Fork but] to the west and north of there… Issaquena, pronounced “Essaquena,” the initial

August 18th, 2014 | by TLV News

This is how bad news travels. On the evening of Wednesday, July 16, Amberly Stokes received a dire text message

August 5th, 2014 | by TLV News

This article originally appeared in The Local Voice #209 (published July 31, 2014). To download a PDF of this issue,