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 ...

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 ...

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 ...