A tractor mishap in Mississippi helped put the career of a renowned bluesman in high gear. If not for the 1946 accident, the world might never have heard of Riley King. Of course, today we know him as ...

INDIANOLA, Miss. -- Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved ...

Visit the B.B. King Museum In Indianola, visitors can explore the B.B. King Museum & Delta Interpretive Center, which tells ...

It’s nearly 700 miles to Indianola, Miss., but the Quad-Cities has a couple of connections to the new B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center opening there this weekend. Rock Island blues ...

INDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) — Work is starting on a $2.5 million expansion of a Mississippi Delta museum dedicated to a native son who became a blues legend. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday for ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of music fans are expected to let the good times roll Sunday at the 35th annual B.B. King Homecoming Festival, a free gathering that the legendary bluesman started in ...

B.B. King, legendary "King of the Blues" who died in at the age of 89 in 2015, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16, 2025. In 1925, Riley B. King was born in Berclair, Mississippi, a small, ...

* B.B. King, born Riley B. King, was one of the most influential and celebrated blues musicians of all time. From his roots as a sharecropper’s son, working in the cotton fields of Mississippi, he ...