Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original ...

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 ...

Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North. Sheer joy of ...

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 ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

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 ...

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 ...