Music in Mississippi

Catch a live blues set in a former 1930s grocery store on the Mississippi River.

Pay your respects at this juke joint founded by a blues legend of the Mississippi Delta.

W.C. Handy, sometimes known as the Father of the Blues, drew inspiration for one of his biggest hits from this spot.

Swing by this iconic record store find out what’s going on in Clarksdale’s live music scene.

An enormous, interactive museum with star-studded exhibits is surprisingly found deep in the Mississippi Delta.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

A 1980s tour bus that traveled millions of miles to facilitate a superlatively rigorous performing career.

The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

Though Johnson is not actually buried here, an Atlanta-based band sponsored a headstone for him.

Contrary to popular belief, this memorial does not actually claim to mark the bluesman's grave.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.