Its origins are deeply rooted in blues and ragtime music, a popular genre in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and also share similar sensibilities to European and African music. Like most genres ...

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 ...

A marriage of blues, country, Black gospel music, and R&B of the time. It was a mix of things that made a very district sound ...

The post-war traditional jazz and folk revival movements produced the fertile ground for a new kind of blues music — entirely influenced by the authentic black blues of the USA, and, for the ...