David Evans, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Memphis, explain some of the history behind blues music, especially the stripped-down, raw style of music called Delta blues. Mai Cramer ...

Mamie Smith made history in February 1920 when she ... Muddy Waters transformed the music of the Delta into modern electric blues. His influence was at the heart of English R&B bands such as ...

The 2006 Melbourne Cup champion Delta Blues has passed away, aged 24. Alongside Pop Rock, the Japanese pair made history in ...

Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues. The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in ...

Or, perhaps, caused his downfall. For though Robert Johnson has been named a master of the Delta blues style — a later influence on many blues and rock 'n' roll musicians from Eric Clapton to ...

David Evans, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Memphis, explain some of the history behind blues music, especially the stripped-down, raw style of music called Delta blues. Mai Cramer ...