‘The Lemon Song’ is one of the closest things to straight electric blues that Led Zeppelin ever produced. Its raw sound is ...

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 ...

This Mississippi Delta Blues style began to lose its importance ... Home is in the Delta" and can be heard on his Bluesway Album, The Blues is Where its At; Spann sings: My home is in the Delta ...

creating many musical innovations Muddy Waters was a huge influence in turning the music of the Mississippi Delta into modern-style electric blues In 1920 Mamie Smith became the first African ...

Sacred and Secular in the Mississippi Delta” will air on Mississippi Public Broadcasting this month. The film will air ...

We've all been there: caught between moving forwards and going back; figuratively stuck in the mud. Christopher Wyze & The Tellers know this all too well - so much so that they wrote a song and an ...

BB King was the greatest bluesman the world has ever seen. We look back at his life, with a little help from his friends ...

By 1900, this small town in the central Mississippi Delta had developed from its modest beginnings, a “bustling community of Black-owned businesses and prosperous farmers.” Early Black ...

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 ...

Antonio Madlock scored 21 points and Alabama State defeated Mississippi Valley State 61-46 on Monday night, handing the Delta Devils their 28th loss in a row dating to last season. — Lorenzo ...

"Wine on Venus" will be released in the coming weeks, with her debut album ... North Mississippi Allstars rumbled through a ...