Fans of American popular music probably owe more to Mississippi than to any other state. As the birthplace of the blues, Mississippi has influenced jazz, rock and roll, country music and Gospel. Its musical heritage includes the music of such legendary performers as Elvis Presley, Jimmie Rodgers, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and B. B. King. Learn more about the music history of Mississippi first-hand. Plan your Mississippi vacation today.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

In December 2006, Governor Haley Barbour and First Lady Marsha Barbour joined the Mississippi Development Authority/Tourism Division Heritage Trails Program and the Mississippi Blues Commission in announcing the first three sites of the Mississippi Blues Trail.
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Enter as much information as you can to narrow your search. Attraction name: Any 308 Blues Club and Cafe Art Gallery, F. D. Hall Music Center Blue Front Cafe Bluesville Showcase Night Club/Blues & Legends Hal Bolivar County Courthouse Boss Hall Canton Multicultural Center & Museum Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art Causeyville General Store and Mill Center for the Study of Southern Culture Clarksdale Station Depot Club Ebony Delta Blues Museum Delta Center Stage (2007-2008) DeSoto Civic Center DeSoto County Museum Dockery Plantation Elmore James Memorial Marker Elvis and Priscilla Presley's Honeymoon Cottage Elvis Presley Birthplace & Museum Eugene "Sonny Boy Nelson" Powell Gravesite G.G. Lounge Graceland Too Grand Gulf Military Park Greene County Museum Greenwood Blues Heritage Museum & Gallery, The Ground Zero Blues Club Hamasa Shrine Temple Theatre Hancock County Welcome Center - Holiday Open House Hazlehurst Depot Museum Hickory Street Area Highland Park Dentzel Carousel Highway 61 Blues Museum Historic Blues Driving Tour Historic Saenger Theater Hopson Plantation Howlin' Wolf Museum & Howlin' Wolf Statue James "Son" Thomas' Grave Jerry Lee Lewis Ranch Jimmie Rodgers Gravesite Jimmie Rodgers Museum Landrum's Country Homestead and Village Lazy Acres Plantation, LLC Leland Blues Murals Little Big Store-Raymond Train Depot Lyric Theatre, The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Reservation Mississippi Governor's Mansion Mississippi John Hurt Home/Museum Mississippi's Greatest Collection of Hank Williams Muddy Waters Cabin Site and Marker Natchez Little Theatre Natchez Under-the-Hill Nelson Street Ole Miss Blues Archive Oren Dunn City Museum Perry's Flowing Fountain Pickin' on the Square Playboy Club Pontotoc Cemetery Provine Chapel Riley Center, The Robert Johnson Heritage & Blues Museum Robert Johnson Heritage House Robert Johnson Memorial Robert Johnson Tombstone Robert Johnson Tombstone Robert Johnson Walking Tour Rock 'n Roll & Blues Heritage Musuem Sam Chatmon's Grave Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center Snowden Grove Park Southaven Performing Arts Center St. Peter's United Methodist Church Starkville Community Theater Company Templetons Music Museum The Bollinger Family Theater Tishomingo County Archives and Museum University of Southern Mississippi W. C. Handy Home Site and Marker Walnut Street Bar and Grill Westmoreland's Antique Exhibit City: Any Aberdeen Amory Avalon Baldwyn Bay St. Louis Belmont Belzoni Bentonia Beulah Biloxi Blue Mountain Booneville Brandon Brookhaven Brooksville Bruce Canton Carrollton Causeyville Centreville Chatham Choctaw Chunky Church Hill Clarksdale Cleveland Clinton Collins Columbus Corinth Crystal Springs Daleville DeKalb Diamondhead Durant Ebenezer Edwards Ellisville Enterprise Fayette Flora French Camp Friars Point Fulton Gautier Glen Allan Glendora Greenville Greenwood Grenada Gulfport Harriston Hattiesburg Hazlehurst Hernando Hollandale Holly Springs Horn Lake Hot Coffee Indianola Iuka Jacinto Jackson Kiln Kosciusko Lauderdale Laurel Leakesville Leland Lexington Liberty Long Beach Lorman Lucedale Macon Madison Magnolia Mantachie McComb Mendenhall Meridian Merigold Metcalfe Michigan City Monticello Moorhead Morgan City Morgantown Mound Bayou Mt. Olive Natchez Nesbit New Albany Newton Ocean Springs Okolona Olive Branch Onward Oxford Pascagoula Pass Christian Pearl Philadelphia Picayune Pickens Piney Woods Pontotoc Poplarville Port Gibson Prentiss Quitman Quito Raymond Ridgeland Ripley Rodney Rolling Fork Rosedale Ruleville Sandy Hook Sardis Scott Seminary Senatobia Shelby Silver Creek Southaven Starkville Stennis Space Center Stoneville Sturgis Tinsley Tishomingo Tougaloo Tunica Tunica Resorts Tupelo Tutwiler Union Union Church Utica Vaiden Vardaman Vaughan Verona Vicksburg Wahalak Washington Water Valley West Point Wiggins Winterville Woodville Yazoo City County: Any Adams Alcorn Amite Attala Benton Bolivar Calhoun Carroll Chickasaw Choctaw Claiborne Clarke Clay Coahoma Copiah Covington Desoto Forrest George Greene Grenada Hancock Harrison Hinds Holmes Humphreys Itawamba Jackson Jefferson Jefferson Davis Jones Kemper Lafayette Lauderdale Lawrence Lee Leflore Lincoln Lowndes Madison Marion Marshall Monroe Neshoba Newton Noxubee Oktibbeha Panola Pearl River Pike Pontotoc Prentiss Rankin Sharkey Simpson Stone Sunflower Tallahatchie Tate Tippah Tishomingo Tunica Union Warren Washington Wilkinson Yalobusha Yazoo OR state region: Any The Capital/River Region The Coastal Region The Delta The Hills The Pines

Refer to the map below for information on the five state regions.