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 ...

When Compass Data Center CEO AJ Byers took the stage in front of a packed house at the Riley Center in Meridian on Tuesday to ...

The Birthplace of America’s music and where so many creative trailblazers have found their passion, Mississippi speaks to generations of music lovers with historical landmarks, trails, music festivals ...

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 ...

Celebrate Elvis Presley's 90th birthday and the 100th anniversary of B.B. King with a series of events in the birthplace of ...

From the quirky coast to the soulful Delta, these small towns are the gems of Mississippi. Check out their town squares, ...

Hard times are always with us, I think: Maybe this is why the blues endures. A few miles out of Bentonia I cross into the Mississippi Delta, and the terrain changes from thick and green to wide ...

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The blues music which arose from the Mississippi Delta has in many ways come to define modern American music. There is a deep ...

As part of promoting the release of the newest trailer for Sinners, writer-director Ryan Coogler revealed the personal and ...

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 ...