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 ...

Hard times are always with us, I think: Maybe this is why the blues endures. A few miles out of Bentonia I cross into the Mississippi Delta, and the terrain changes from thick and green to wide ...

Home to many of the Mississippi Blues Trail markers, the town is full of blues history. Blues fans can also visit ‘The Crossroads’ – a fabled spot at Highway 61 & 49 where Delta bluesman ...

One window into life during and after the flood is Delta blues music, which was blossoming in Mississippi at the time of the disaster. Blues artists from Bessie Smith to Barbecue Bob recorded over ...

The blues put Mississippi on the map, and that’s why we must save Po ... 750-megawatt unit in Greenville the “Delta Blues Advanced Power Station” for the music that’s made us famous.