Celebrate Women’s History Month with music featuring the early blues women of Naptown during the 1920s and ‘30s.

creating many musical innovations Muddy Waters was a huge influence in turning the music of the Mississippi Delta into modern-style electric blues In 1920 Mamie Smith became the first African ...

Delta blues is the foundation for that. When we listen to blues music of the 1920s, it's like looking through a window at the experience people are having at the time. Typically, blues artists ...

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 structure of blues music is still heard today in lots of different genres of music. Call and response close call and responseWhere one melody is answered by another. is a feature of work songs ...

According to music critic Daphne Brooks ... even though it was Smith who kicked off the classic blues women’s era of the 1920s.