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 Delta continues to produce country artists ... The Blues: A Smithsonian Collection of Classic Blues Singers. Smithsonian RD 101. Various artists. 1984. The Blues Came Down from Memphis.

Hurt’s work both evoked and diverged from his region’s musical traditions. “Classic” Delta blues music was “melodically complex, haunting and often discordant,” featuring lyrics that ...

Best known for her timeless classic “Freight Train,” Elizabeth ... in church as a child and inspired by the sounds of the Delta Blues, spent his teenage years learning to play harmonica ...

One of the South Shore’s best-known local groups performs in their hometown tonight, but under the guise of a slightly different name and a much different musical identity. O’Neal Armstrong appears at ...

A Robert Johnson biopic from Jesse Collins Entertainment and Concord Originals is in development, Deadline can reveal ...

Classix 102.9 will be shifting its format starting Saturday by adding Southern soul to its existing R&B songs from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Southern soul is a combination of styles including ...

Number of times the Blues have won in the Winter Classic (4-1 vs. Chicago, 2017 and 6-4 vs. Minnesota, 2022). If the Blues win on Tuesday, they will share the League lead with the Boston Bruins ...

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 ...

Cancel anytime. Post-Dispatch Blues beat reporter Matthew DeFranks joined columnist Jeff Gordon to discuss the successful Winter Classic in Chicago. Steam rises from the ice behind Blues ...