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 ...

Delta blues is as much legend as it is music. In the popular telling, blues articulated the hopelessness and poverty of an isolated, oppressed people through music that was disconnected from popular ...

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 ...

A few years ago, blues guitarist Eric Bibb was approached by a fan carrying a guitar case. In that guitar case was a 1930s vintage Resophonic National guitar once belonging to blues legend Booker ...

In the 47 years since Bonnie Raitt released her debut album, one thing hasn’t changed for the guitarist and singer: a deep, abiding love of the Delta blues. “One person on a guitar or slide guitar is ...

Delta blues guitarist David "Honeyboy" Edwards is one of the few living links to the mythic bluesman Robert Johnson. If playing with the man who (as legend has it) sold his soul to devil wasn't enough ...

Singer-songwriter Eric Bibb delves deep into the Delta blues on his new release, Booker's Guitar. The album was inspired by a vintage guitar once owned by Mississippi bluesman Booker White. Eric Bibb ...

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 ...

ROCHESTER — The great Mississippi bluesman Willie Dixon used to say “The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.” Indeed, much in the world of modern music sprang forth from the Mississippi 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 ...