In this sultry world premiere inspired by the myth of musician Robert Johnson, the Delta Blues fills the air, and every strum ...

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 ...

He took up guitar at a young age and became a traveling musician, living for stretches in Arkansas and Tennessee. Johnson was a pioneer of the Delta blues, with a powerful, haunting voice ...

his song style differs dramatically from other delta blues musicians like Charley Patton, Son House, Tommy Johnson, and, even Skip James in that he sang to an intricate fingerpicking, syncopated style ...

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 such as the Rolling Stones ...

The band Big Blue Sky performs on a riverboat, adding to a long tradition of music inspired and transported by the Mississippi River.

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 ...

The singer expressed her excitement about attending the Grammy Awards, which will be held in Los Angeles in February 2025.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The world premiere of "Leroy & Lucy" is at the Steppenwolf Theatre. It features Jon Michael Hill, a Waukegan ...

Leroy and Lucy at Steppenwolf tells a blues story that puts African myths and Western storytelling conventions in the crossroad.

And riverboats not altogether different from this one carried songs north and south, spreading jazz and the delta blues across the heart of the country. Most importantly, the music describes ...