When I was growing up in the Mississippi Delta, the go-to big city was Memphis, a city that in the 1950s was starkly divided along black/white, rich/poor lines. So how was it that a statue of a ...

It’s one of the most familiar creation myths in the American imagination: a lonely crossroads in the Mississippi Delta; a down-at-the-heels musician and Satan himself, come to bestow fretboard mojo in ...

William Christopher Handy, known as “the father of the blues,” was the first person to notate and publish blues songs, and is recognized for integrating blues elements into ragtime, which was a ...

It’s one of the most familiar creation myths in the American imagination: a lonely crossroads in the Mississippi Delta; a down-at-the-heels musician and Satan himself, come to bestow fretboard mojo in ...

When she moved to Florence, Ala., from her native Illinois in 1996, Algene Norwood didn’t know a soul. She decided that she “had to get out and get active and meet people.” She did that by ...

For the 34th time, the granddaddy of Henderson’s “Rootin’ Tootin’ Songs of Summer” music series — the W.C. Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival — is coming on June 11-14. The volunteer-run music festival ...

The legendary blues composer W.C. Handy will be remembered this week in a series of special performances as a part of the New York Festival of Song. Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with Elliott Hurwitt ...

Memphis has been many things: the birthplace of the blues, ground zero for the revolution of rock 'n' roll, and the city that ...

HENDERSON, Ky. — Henderson's W.C. Handy Blues and Barbecue Festival is back for its 31st year with some returning favorites and several newcomers among the featured performers. Abby Dixon, executive ...

FLORENCE, Ala. (WAFF) - W.C. Handy Music Festival officially kicked off Wednesday and will last for the next two weeks. 14 days of music, good food and fun, that’s what locals say W.C. Handy Music ...