The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly ... accompanying themselves on guitar or harmonica. Bottleneck and slide guitar, a rough and rhythmic intensity, and ...

The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ... What we usually think of as Delta blues is one person with a guitar, typically a slide guitar, and that real raw kind of singing.

nods to Mississippi Delta Blues dons such as Son House and Howlin’ Wolf, a bit of George Harrison here and some Dick Dale there. But none of those guitar visionaries are the one that White ...

Although Eric Clapton was a bluesy troubadour from the beginning, he had a special fondness for those speaking his musical language.

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 ...

A few miles out of Bentonia I cross into the Mississippi Delta, and the terrain ... through the musical evolution of the blues, illustrating it with guitar tunes, bee jokes, and Burt Reynolds ...

Guitar legend T-Bone Walker ... 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- American ...

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