The Port City Blues Society will host a free blues presentation celebrating the history and continuing relevance of Delta blues music. “Sounds of Blue: An Interactive Delta Blues Experience for ...

Delta blues harp player gets by with captive audience. ... I'm the best you're ever going to hear for free," said Blue, 66. ... He calls delta blues the purest form of American music.

As blues music grew in popularity, some musicians, like Charley Patton, Eddie James "Son" House, Jr., and Robert Johnson became famous and toured around the delta region.

Dig deeper into the Delta blues with these documentaries about legendary musicians Robert Johnson, Charley Patton and Howlin' Wolf. 10 Blues Documentaries to Watch After 'Sinners' Skip to content ...

At the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, Mississippi, fans of the blues great can follow his journey from his youngest days until his death in 2015.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The University of Memphis Art Museum will host an exhibit series highlighting regional blues music and related visual arts. The works of art celebrating the music and art of the ...

An upcoming main-stage play at New Stage Theatre hits all the blues-music bullet points—the magical spell of its sound, its Mississippi Delta and field-worker roots, its musical flip side in ...

The blues gave rise to the many forms of Afro-American popular music, among them bebop, ragtime, jazz, funk, soul and rap. The origins of the blues itself, however, is less clear; many origin stories ...

Mississippi has such a unique history and culture of blues music, why would Jackson, the state capitol, not have a venue to recognize it? That is exactly what Isaac Byrd Jr., owner of the 930 ...

Music begins at 7 p.m. each night and the shows are free and open to the public. More: With an all-star cast, Gary Clark Jr. puts the blues back in Blues on the Green ...