‘The blues had a baby and they named it rock‘n’roll,’ sang Muddy Waters. And he was right, of course. Once he and Howlin’ Wolf started plugging into amps in the clubs of Chicago in the 1950s, the ...

Ryan Lee Crosby felt struck by lightning three times in his life. At age 13, when he first picked up a harmonica to play the blues. (“It was a struck-by-lightning moment, where I knew, ‘Oh, I’m going ...

The only trouble with musical revival eras is that it also requires that sounds you love are dying just a little bit more than before you're treated to loving them all over again. On Wednesday night ...

Gang of brownskin women (Harvey Hull) --Be true, be true blues (Henry Sims) --I'm leavin' town (William Harris) -- Special rider blues ; Cypress Grove blues (Skip James) -- Hang it on the wall ...

Blues selections by Delta bluesman Son House, obtained by Sam Charters from the Library of Congrss folksong archive. Tape 2 of 2 given to Moe Asch by Charters to produce an album of blues artist from ...

Nashville, Austin, New Orleans, Chicago, and New York are some of the more notable American locations for music. However, the location that partially gave these places their music: the Mississippi ...

Most would say it's the humidity that makes the Mississippi air feel so thick. I believe it's the ghosts. Ghosts haunt Mississippi with stories, lifetimes of stories — told with words, or in song over ...

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 ...