BENTONIA, Miss. (AP) — With callused hands, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plucks an old acoustic guitar at the juke joint his parents started more than 70 years ago. He checks the cafe’s inventory: jars of ...

He was in the cradle when Elvis Presley came on the TV in his family’s house on Mason Street in the late 1950s. That’s the first time he felt it. “It was always in my soul, the blues was,” he says. He ...

The mainstream pop world still may not be aware of it but, over the last four decades, there has been a distinctive brand of guitar-driven, blues and rock-flavored music wafting in from northwestern ...