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

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 ...

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 ...

a hospitable place for classical and folk music, with the Mississippi Delta. But Gina Coleman, the lead singer and founder of the group Misty Blues, has been holding it down and representing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The blues music which arose from the Mississippi Delta has in many ways come to define modern American music. There is a deep ...