The crowd at Hal & Mal's in Jackson, Mississippi, whoops with pleasure at the end of every stanza. "What you have to learn about the blues," says Bobby Rush, the man sitting next to me ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...

The museum, a 200-year-old shack with a tin roof, was once Hurt’s home. The country-blues singer and guitarist was born in the late 1800s, and he lived most of his life in Avalon, an all-Black ...