Willie King News

The seventh annual Grassroots Blues Festival takes place Saturday in a field near tiny Duck Hill, just south of Grenada.

Social activist and bluesman Willie King died in March at age 65, and at his funeral, fans and musicians vowed to keep his legacy alive.

The blues dripped from the harmonica, echoing from wall to wall, filling the auditorium of Aliceville's city hall.

Music has always been a major part of life in Bob Tedrow's household. Bob owns a Homewood music store and sells the concertinas he builds world-wide. So it's no wonder that everyone in Tedrow's family plays an ...

A wake and funeral are planned this weekend for Alabama blues artist Willie King, who died Sunday at the age of 65.

Last Sunday bluesman and social activist Willie King died at just 66 years old after suffering a heart attack at his home in western Alabama.

Sad news today that the great bluesman and social activist Willie King has passed away: "'Freedom Creek,' released on the Rooster Blues record label, received universal rave reviews and earned him several ...

The silence that comes when famed musicians pass away is a shock to those who treasure such glorious work.

A US priest who defied his bishop in 2005 to become pastor of a largely Polish-American parish at odds with the archdiocese has been stripped of his priesthood.

Award-winning Alabama bluesman Willie King died at his Old Memphis, Alabama home from a massive heart attack on Sunday, March 8, 2009 at the age of 65 years.

Willie King , a nationally known bluesman who put out six recordings and a DVD, died Sunday at his home near Old Memphis, according to his Web site.