Paul has visited every marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. My goal is more modest-a weeklong road trip to some of the trail's key sites. While the blues has no single origin story, the Deep ...

The Mississippi ... the Delta Blues style. Listen for the percussive style of slide guitar in Bukka White's "Panama Limited" and the emotive vocalizations in Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues ...

You can also follow the Mississippi Blues Trail as you weave through the state. Clarksdale is the home of the Blues and is located along the Sunflower River! You’ll find live music all year ...

The city of Greenwood boasts a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail because it's where guitarist B.B. King performed his first live broadcast — in 1940 at the WGRM radio station on Howard Street.