While the blues has become almost synonymous with the Delta, the region also has had other musical traditions, secular as well as sacred (see Joyce Jackson's article, "'Like a River Flowing with ...

Delta blues grew up into modern Chicago blues ... Unfortunately it had the effect of isolating these American musical traditions and keeping them out of the mainstream of American music, so ...

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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 ...

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

When Birney Imes began working on his juke joint series in 1983, the black honky- tonks that nourished the Mississippi Delta’s rich blues tradition were being replaced by discos. “What ...