Dig deeper into the Delta blues with these documentaries about legendary musicians Robert Johnson, Charley Patton and Howlin' ...

I showed them the FDR poster and told them how I’d acquired it. By then I’d decided I was only its custodian and had put in my will that when I died it was to go to the Delta Blues Museum ...

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

We begin our Memorial Day special with acclaimed director Ryan Coogler about his latest film Sinners, which is set to be one of the biggest box office hits of the year. Starring Michael B. Jordan, the ...

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 ...

Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues. The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in ...

He carries a steel guitar that he claims once belonged to the legendary Charley Patton, one of the real-life fathers of the Delta blues. On opening night at the juke joint, a trio of white ...