Delta Blues Music. As the flood waters rose, ... When we listen to blues music of the 1920s, it's like looking through a window at the experience people are having at the time.

Early blues artists such as W.C. Handy, Charley Patton and Blind Lemon Jefferson may have been the pioneers of a new style of music, but the genre continues to evolve with each passing generation.

The blues put this town on the tourism map, but Clarksdale has leaned into its musical heritage in recent decades. Here’s how ...

GREENVILLE, Miss. — I recently moved to the heart and soul of the Mississippi Delta, the birthplace of the blues. Signs of this rich music heritage are all around me in this part of the state ...

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 ...

Distilling that kind of racial discrimination into a blues song makes this one of the earliest examples of protest music in the Delta blues. 1. Robert Johnson, “Crossroads ...

With pandemic restrictions lifted, tourists are returning to Mississippi's famous Blues Trail. Civil rights leaders are noticing some are now hungry for more context about the music's origins.

Clarksdale was the place where blues legends like Sam Cooke, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters got their start, but its significance was mostly known to music lovers.

Writer-musician Gioia (Healing Songs, 2006, etc.) undertakes the daunting task of reconsidering the blues of the Mississippi Delta, musicological terrain well-plowed in several noteworthy books ...

Delta Blues Music. As the flood waters rose, ... When we listen to blues music of the 1920s, it's like looking through a window at the experience people are having at the time.

But while the music spread and evolved in the decades that followed, the roots of the blues remain firmly entrenched in the Delta's fertile soil. For many here in the South, the blues is more than ...