Charley Patton News

On this day in 1909, Booker T. "Bukka" White was born in Houston, Mississippi, a small farming town south of Tupelo in the Hill Country.

A new license plate supporting the Mississippi Blues Trail will be available soon.

Before blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin became legendary bluesman Howlin' Wolf's lead guitar player, he was a young boy fiddling around with a piece of string his brother had nailed to a wall.

October of 2008 to further follow dreams in Music City, by continuing to create music influenced by the Delta blues of Charley Patton and Howlin' Wolf, the raw, brilliant sounds of the Replacements, the lyrical, romantic and often raucous sounds of The Pogues, and the genius of Tom Waits.

Anyone who knows the difference between a guitar and a bass--guitar=six strings, bass =four--knows that legendary Rolling Stones riff-king Keith Richards loves himself some blues pickin'. He was inspired by all the greats, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Leadbelly, Son House and now Jack White, as it was reported yesterday on RollingStone.com that ...

Online: Bigdamn band.com Local gig: The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band will perform Sept.

Online: Bigdamn band.com Local gig: The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band will perform Sept.

The history of slide guitar goes back to Africa, where musicians playing one-stringed violins used bones or similarly shaped and smooth-surfaced objects to vary the pitch of their string.

Before the Brits invaded the U.S. with their transformative sound in the mid 1960s, there was rockabilly, a 1950s predecessor to American rock 'n' roll and the Beatles.

Though little is known of his life, Robert Johnson's scant recordings left an indelible mark on music.

JOHN HENEGHAN tugged a large shellac disc from its brown paper sleeve, placed it on a turntable and gently nudged a needle into place.

The force of nature that was Chester Arthur Burnett, better known as Chicago blues legend Howlin' Wolf , was born this day in 1910 in West Point, Mississippi.