Compared to other types of music, it's very authentic -- there aren't a lot of frills. What we usually think of as Delta blues is one person with a guitar, typically a slide guitar, and that real ...

The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner.

Bends, embellishments, arpeggios and more – from Charlie Christian to BB King and George Benson, how to unlock the genius of ...

The slaves brought the musical traditions of their African homelands to America and, with limited resources for playing music ... Delta blues artists often worked solo, accompanying themselves on ...

Guitar legend T-Bone Walker ... More than any other musician, Muddy Waters transformed the music of the Delta into modern electric blues. His influence was at the heart of English R&B bands ...

A brilliant, inimitable guitarist, the late Joe Louis Walker merged Delta, Chicago, and West Coast blues styles with soul, ...

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 ...

Ludwig Göransson never imagined scoring a film about a blues ... Mississippi Delta in 1932. "I grew up with blues around me," Göransson told IndieWire. "My dad is a blues guitar player ...

As I drive my rented Dodge Hornet south on Highway 61 across the flat Mississippi Delta, the region’s famous native son B.B. King croons “Why I Sing the Blues” on the radio. Music that sprung from ...