With the Juke Joint Festival, a Mississippi city aims to lose its economic blues In Mississippi’s Clarksdale, the heart of the rural Delta, a celebration of the blues has been drawing thousands of ...

In Mississippi’s Clarksdale, the heart of the rural Delta, a celebration of the blues has been drawing thousands of fans to the area for the past 16 years. The Juke Joint Festival, named for bars and ...

It was dusk last Saturday as cars pulled into the line of parking spaces in front of Gip’s Place, the legendary Alabama juke joint in Bessemer. Absent that evening was Robert Burrell, the friendly ...

Ten years ago, some buddies and I made a film called We Juke Up in Here. It was an insiders’ journey into the underbelly of Mississippi’s surviving juke joint culture. Three years later, The New York ...

If you walk into the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History in Fayetteville, you might suddenly find yourself very much at home--that is, if you're from the South. As you stand on a wooden ...

The blues runs deep through Orlando Paden’s veins. As a child, he danced for nickels and quarters by the jukebox. He cleaned, crushed cans, and bagged them. He’d greet Mr. Bill, the bouncer, at the ...

We're all mostly familiar with the concept of a speakeasy, considering they were all the rage in the early 2010s. A less well-known historical institution turned cool hangout is the juke joint. It's ...

Teddy’s Juke Joint, the world-famous music attraction in Zachary, celebrates its 45th anniversary on Saturday. Teddy “Lloyd” Johnson — the venue’s cowboy hat-wearing owner and DJ — has booked the Neal ...

At their heart, juke joints are more informal bars, where food and liquor are cheap, the hours are late, and the vibes are all about Black culture. The smell of cigarette smoke and fryer oil hang in ...

In the early 1990s, I often took a cheap Southwest Airlines flight from my native Dayton, Ohio to Chicago in search of down-home blues venues like Lee’s Unleaded and Rosa’s. Then, in 1995, my ...