The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner.

the students took photos of each other and had the chance to frame their own shots. When you live in the Mississippi Delta, it’s easy to be hands-on with the blues. But even though the blues ...

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 ...

Experience 1920s life in the South at this immersive Mississippi museum, where you can walk through authentic buildings ...

As I drive my rented Dodge Hornet south on Highway 61 across the flat Mississippi Delta, the region’s famous native son B.B. King croons “Why I Sing the Blues” on the radio. Music that sprung from ...

Sinners’ Mixes Blues, Vampires and the Mississippi Delta Into Ryan Coogler’s 1st Original Film Ryan Coogler only makes personal movies. “Fruitvale Station” was set in his hometown of ...

the state of the blues… Mississippi and, specifically, to the town of Clarksdale… in the belly of the Delta… where the blues first flourished and where in recent years, there's been somethin ...

"Kids my age, we're starting to like vintage stuff," Ty Myers ... over the last year with videos that feel akin to the Mississippi Delta circa 1945. Culpepper’s catalog invites comparisons ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

It was the first radio show to feature the Mississippi Delta blues, and young Riley King heard it on his lunch break at the plantation. A largely self-taught guitarist, he now knew what he wanted ...

Bill Cheng's new novel, Southern Cross the Dog, is deeply rooted in the Mississippi Delta. It follows the story ... to the world he writes about is the blues music he started listening to as ...