Reverend John Wilkins is a gospel blues guitarist and vocalist based in Memphis, Tennessee. He is th...

Leo Welch remembered well the day his cousin’s guitar came in the mail. Welch and another younger ...

Every Wednesday evening, the members of St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Meridian begin their p...

Starkville resident Larry Wallace is one of the nation’s top bluegrass banjo players and has been ...

Lee Chester “L.C.” Ulmer was a native of South Mississippi who for 50 years played music all ove...

John Stuart was born in 1932 in the Bellevue community west of Hattiesburg, where he still lives tod...

The Sparks Family Singers have been playing a blend of traditional gospel songs and their own compos...

Country and rockabilly singer Mack Allen Smith was born in 1938 in Carroll County. He spent his earl...

Charles T. Smith was born in 1922 in Webster County and began fiddling in childhood. He got started ...

Twenty-one-year-old Clarksdale native Anthony Sherrod grew up in a musical home. His father, E.J. Jo...

“Big” Joe Shelton was born in the Black Belt Prairie region of northeast Mississippi in 1951. T...

Joyce Shearer is a good example of a person who becomes involved in the arts later in life, but who ...