Experience two days of live Blues music and a host of events with free admission to fill your Memorial Day Weekend!

The Exit 56 Blues Fest kicked off this morning in Brownsville. And while some events had to be scaled down, there was still a ...

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.

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 has to do with that relationship that Delta Blues has with its kinda like twin sibling, gospel music.” “Blues music was the first American music to be referenced as the devil’s music ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The crossroads at midnight: Hegemony in the music and culture of Delta blues This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The blues gave rise to the many forms of Afro-American ...