The Oscar winner released “Death Letter Blues” with Taj Mahal on Juneteenth ahead of his upcoming project, “Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic ...

Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North. Sheer joy of ...

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 blues is ripe with legends and myths, not least the oft-touted claim that W.C. Handy was the father of the blues. But as Darryl. W. Bullock tells it, there is an important tract of blues history ...

INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The Blues genre started developing in the late 1860s by ...

“Popular music, and especially blues- influenced music, has been a really important venue for women to express their wilder side,” says Boulder-based author Buzzy Jackson. “Unfortunately, they do pay ...

Jim Fusilli was the rock and pop music critic of The Wall Street Journal. Fusilli is also founder and editor of a destination for “Music for Grownups." ...