Writer and musician Emma John takes a trip along the Mississippi Blues Trail to learn more about the genre's origins and ...

The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ... explain some of the history behind blues music, especially the stripped-down, raw style of music called Delta blues.

The SPLC’s Mississippi state office embarked on a multicity bus tour to hear directly from community members their struggles with advocacy and civic groups and state leaders.

creating many musical innovations Muddy Waters was a huge influence in turning the music of the Mississippi Delta into modern-style electric blues In 1920 Mamie Smith became the first African ...

The history explored by these two routes is not only the story of Mississippi, but also America in a way. The blues music which arose from the Mississippi Delta has in many ways come to define ...

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 ...

Their project was to create a digital archive that describes this living history for the federally supported Mississippi Delta National Heritage ... video would start by paying homage to the Delta’s ...

The Mississippi Delta town is a music lover’s paradise. “Clarksdale is a wonderful place to visit for music fans, especially for fans of the blues and the genres that it gave birth to ...

Morgan Freeman celebrated New Year’s Eve at his Mississippi bar, Ground Zero Blues Club, with Al Green. The Oscar winner ...

The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ... explain some of the history behind blues music, especially the stripped-down, raw style of music called Delta blues.