Delta blues is the foundation for that. When we listen to blues music of the 1920s ... would just pitch in after the flood to restore the old order, and give volunteer labor so they could go ...

That weird music, blues, first reached the ears of most Americans beyond the Delta through the composed ... heritage that's at least 20,000 years old, and to take some responsibility for the ...

The legend of Johnson selling his soul to the devil in exchange for mastery of Delta blues guitar was made all the more eerie after his tragically premature death at 27 years old. The vacuum left ...

The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the ...

Hot Springs one-man Delta Blues band Greg "Big Papa" Binns will be the featured performer at Wednesday Night Poetry at ...

More than any other musician, Muddy Waters transformed the music of the Delta into modern electric blues. His influence was at the heart of English R&B bands such as the Rolling Stones ...

Old blues men never retire — they just keep on playing until they drop. And this week, the Music Box Supper Club is hosting a ...