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 ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...

Hot Springs one-man Delta Blues band Greg "Big Papa" Binns will be the featured performer at Wednesday Night Poetry at ...

Johnson was a pioneer of the Delta blues, with a powerful ... and recorded him for a Library of Congress project documenting the history of American folk music. He traveled to New York to record ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Celebrate Elvis Presley's 90th birthday and the 100th anniversary of B.B. King with a series of events in the birthplace of ...

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 ...