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 ...

The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ... explain some of the history behind blues music, especially the stripped-down, raw style of music called Delta blues.

Home to many of the Mississippi Blues Trail markers, the town is full of blues history. Blues fans can also visit ‘The Crossroads’ – a fabled spot at Highway 61 & 49 where Delta bluesman ...

A few miles out of Bentonia I cross into the Mississippi Delta, and the terrain ... environments. It's a history wonderfully told in Indianola, the hometown of blues legend B.B. King, just 20 ...

Their project was to create a digital archive that describes this living history for the federally supported Mississippi Delta National Heritage ... video would start by paying homage to the Delta’s ...

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 ...

The history explored by these two routes is not only the story of Mississippi, but also America in a way. The blues music ...