Issue Articles
Blues Festin’
A look back at the Mississippi Delta Blues Festival, the King Biscuit Blues Festival, and the Handy Awards. A journey up Route 55 to fabled Highway 61 leads into […]
Livin’ Large: The Hard Life, Fast Times, and Golden Smile of J. Monque’D
It is a beautiful day in J. Monque’D’s neighborhood. You can’t quite see the Mississippi River from the door of his rented shotgun apartment, but you can feel the cool […]
Testifyin’: New Orleans Bluesmen
Meet Augie Jr., Coco Robicheaux, Mem Shannon and Brint Anderson, working New Orleans bluesmen. At the end of James Brown’s classic R&B hit “Night Train,” he calls out the […]
Deepest Blues
Journalist-turned-producer Robert Palmer tells the tale of how he found himself recording North Mississippi blues artists — persevering through lightning strikes and the idiosyncrasies of the region. Robert Palmer […]
The Smiley Lewis Story
They Heard Him Knockin’ But They Wouldn’t Let Him In Who was the all time greatest New Orleans blues singer? Take a straw poll of R&B aficionados and local […]
DJ Jubilee Bounces His Way to the Top; Sporty T Hits the Jackpot
To his students at Cohen Sr. High School, Jerome Temple is a substitute teacher and football and basketball coach. But to local rap fans he’s DJ Jubilee, and his song […]
