The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...
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; it's ...
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore ...
The blues recordings that came out of the Mississippi Delta from the late 1920s through the late '30s have had an enormous impact on American music, influencing everyone from The Rolling Stones to ...
Musselwhite, 82, reflects on 60 years of blues mastery in an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE at Red’s Old Timers Blues Fest ...
Mississippi Delta Blues Powerhouse Eden Brent To Headline Intimate Night Of Roots Music On October 3
Mississippi Delta blues artist Eden Brent will take the stage on Saturday, October 3, to Roots Music Project in Boulder.
Nashville, Austin, New Orleans, Chicago, and New York are some of the more notable American locations for music. However, the location that partially gave these places their music: the Mississippi ...
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...
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