GREENVILLE – With his roots deep in the Delta, it’s no surprise that Wesley Smith is a blues fanatic. Glancing around his large office at the Greenville-Washington County Convention & Visitors ...

INDIANOLA, MISS. — He started out here 60 years ago, singing the blues on a street corner for dimes. Now, less than three blocks from that corner, the legendary B.B. King will soon have his own ...

Mississippi Delta is home of the blues and key to civil rights past. Here's how With pandemic restrictions lifted, tourists are returning to Mississippi's famous Blues Trail.

Delta Blues has concert posters on the walls and ceilings, bar tables covered in bottle caps, and an upscale rustic style. It's slightly bigger than the Bone Daddy's that once inhabited this address.

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 ...

Writer-musician Gioia (Healing Songs, 2006, etc.) undertakes the daunting task of reconsidering the blues of the Mississippi Delta, musicological terrain well-plowed in several noteworthy books ...

Delta blues giants like Robert Johnson were victims, buffeted by the winds of racism, singing out mostly for personal solace. The story is undoubtedly romantic, but it just isn't true.