Year Anniversary Celebration Weekend. Lanza Gallery and Art Supplies, a High Springs art gallery and supply store, is ...

Blues legend Big Mama Thornton is getting some recognition in the small Dale County town where she was spent her the earliest years of her life.

From the vibrant streets of Memphis to the chancellorship at Rutgers University–Camden, Antonio D. Tillis, Ph.D., has ...

From the vibrant streets of Memphis to the chancellorship at Rutgers University–Camden, Antonio D. Tillis, Ph.D., has followed a path shaped by tradition, ...

The book is about Willie Mae Thornton, better known as Big Mama Thornton. In Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters, author Lynee Denise argues that Thornton’s life epitomizes the blues, but beyond that, the ...

Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” was a hit when released in 1956. But the original was recorded several years earlier by Big Mama Thornton.

A documentary featuring legendary blues singer Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton.

One of the greatest blues singers of all time, Alabama-born Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame in October 2024. She joined a traveling variety ...

These four incredible, powerful Howlin' Wolf songs inspired blues musicians and rock stars alike through the years.

Chester Burnett, by then known throughout the Mississippi Delta as Howlin’ Wolf, had been inducted into the Army in April 1941. Wolf didn’t go willingly.

Willie "Mae" Big Mama Thornton recorded "Hound Dog" while signed to Don Robey's Peacock Records in Fifth Ward, an early influence of rock and roll.