As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

Baton Rouge’s blues community is mourning the death of singer Mamie Porter. A songwriter and vocalist who performed for 30 ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues ... As the musical form began to evolve, Delta blues artists often worked solo, accompanying themselves on guitar or harmonica. Bottleneck and slide ...

Influencing a wide range of artists ... near Clarksdale Mississippi. He began singing in church as a child and inspired by the sounds of the Delta Blues, spent his teenage years learning to ...

The Birthplace of America’s music and where so many creative trailblazers have found their passion, Mississippi speaks to generations of music lovers with historical landmarks, trails, music festivals ...

The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the ...