The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hal & Mal’s, which has hosted live blues performances for more than 40 years, is one of the trail’s newest honorees. The Mississippi Delta region sits in the northwest part of the state ...

The Mississippi Delta town is a music lover’s paradise. “Clarksdale is a wonderful place to visit for music fans, especially for fans of the blues and the genres that it gave birth to ...