The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods; it's the birthplace of uniquely American music ... man-woman theme, or sexual double entendre, getting back to more standard blues themes.

The blues is a style of music created by African Americans at the end of the 19th Century. It developed out of folk music, spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally ...

Jazz and blues are types of music that can trace their roots back to the early 20th Century, in the southern United States. Jazz was very popular as it was a fresh, new sound. Different styles of ...

The post-war traditional jazz and folk revival movements produced the fertile ground for a new kind of blues music — entirely influenced by the authentic black blues of the USA, and, for the ...