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Celebrating the Legendary Blues Researcher Axel Kustner in West Point, Mississippi

German blues researcher Axel Kustner was one of the last blues field workers to comb the southern United States looking for bluesmen, and he was …

Hot Weather and Hot Blues at the Mississippi Hill Country’s Biggest Weekend

Each year, on the last weekend in June, blues musician Kenny Brown and his wife Sarah host the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic at Betty …

Garry Burnside Plays The Hill Country Blues at Booneville’s Fall Fest

Most Mississippi towns have some sort of community festival, so when Hill Country bluesman Garry Burnside told me he would be playing the Booneville Fall …

Celebrating the Blues Culture of Brownsville and the Memory of Tina Turner

The death of soul and pop icon Tina Turner, who was a Haywood County, Tennessee native, hung heavy over this year’s Exit 56 Blues Festival …