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CHEYENNE — The Laramie County Board of County Commissioners has unanimously approved a $572,356 bid for a new sign off Interstate 80 to advertise events at the Archer Complex.

When you come from Bolton, Mississippi (pop. 567), the blues is in your DNA. Indeed, it’s the same place that gave the world Charley Patton, Bo Carter, Sam Chatmon and others who, it could be argued, established the blues as a distinct genre during the early part of the 20th century. The spirit of those artists—along with more recent practitioners such as R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes—is ingrained in the sound of Robert Connely Farr.

CHEYENNE — After facing community backlash from a recent decision to bump the 2024 Cowboy Christmas Market for a high school wrestling tournament, Laramie County commissioners have backtracked on their

CHEYENNE — On Tuesday, the Laramie County Board of Commissioners voted to allocate another $500,000 for the Cheyenne Regional Air Focus Team to support the continued funding of air service

CHEYENNE — The Laramie County Board of Commissioners recently voted to submit an $8.8 million bid for the tallest building in the state, the Wyoming Financial Center at 2020 Carey

Visit "Electric City" with Early Times & The High Rollers. Ryan Lee Crosby mixes Delta Blues with Hindustani slide guitar. Al Basile edges closer and closer to Sinatra. Lyle Odjick is a Blues Super Hero. The Dig 3 play pure organic natural blues thats good for you.

The 42-year-old post-punk rocker’s new album “Winter Hill Blues” — named after Winter Hill in Somerville — channels the moody blues of Bentonia, Mississippi, the North Mississippi blues, and sees a bit of Hindustani slide guitar.

Medford blues musician Ryan Lee Crosby will introduce his new album in Somerville's Davis Square on May 22.

On the evening of June 23, 1964, a red Volkswagen Beetle bearing three blues enthusiasts arrived in Rochester, N.Y. The young men were following a trail of clues in their search of a legend, and they found him sitting on the steps of an apartment building at 61 Greig Street. “This is him,” Son House said.

By: Associated Press AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis Bluesman Jimmy "Duck" Holmes plays a quick ditty at the Blue Front Cafe in Bentonia, Miss., Jan. 21, 2021. Holmes 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 pickled eggs, beef jerky, pork hocks. He tends to the wood-burning stove, made from an oil-field pipe. And every m...