Willie Dixon. Born at the Delta’s southern tip in 1915, Willie Dixon followed the Great Migration to Chicago. There, he penned some of the greatest blues songs of the century, delivering hits to Muddy ...

CLARKSDALE, Miss. — On the Mississippi Delta, the blues is more than just music; it's a way of life. Here is "the Crossroads," the famous place in blues lore where Robert Johnson, a father of the ...

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; it's ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner. In ...

KITTERY, Maine — Haley Art Gallery will host “A Walk Through the Delta” a concert by Poor Howard Stith and Mike “Bullfrog” Rogers on Saturday, June 29, at 7 p.m. The duo will perform a series of songs ...

Located in the Deep South of the United States, the state of Mississippi, also known as the ‘Magnolia State’, is rich in history, not least for being the birthplace of the Delta blues. During the ...

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, ... Telarc Blues culls their considerable holdings to provide a wholly satisfying collection of contemporary blues harmonica by contemporary and ...