Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blues posters, pictures and drawings are displayed for sale at Cat Head Delta Blues and Folk Art in Clarksdale, MS. The Delta ...

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's ...

Nashville, Austin, New Orleans, Chicago, and New York are some of the more notable American locations for music. However, the location that partially gave these places their music: the Mississippi ...

The late 19th and early 20th century work songs and spirituals of the Mississippi Delta have traveled far. They came from Freddie Spruell, Charley Patton, Eddie “Son” House, Chester Burnett (Howlin’ ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...

The blues recordings that came out of the Mississippi Delta from the late 1920s through the late '30s have had an enormous impact on American music, influencing everyone from The Rolling Stones to ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...