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 ...

A Robert Johnson biopic from Jesse Collins Entertainment and Concord Originals is in development, Deadline can reveal ...

A new biopic based on the life of legendary blues singer Robert Johnson is in the works from Jesse Collins Entertainment and ...

Hot Springs one-man Delta Blues band Greg "Big Papa" Binns will be the featured performer at Wednesday Night Poetry at ...

Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues. The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in ...

The 2006 Melbourne Cup champion Delta Blues has passed away, aged 24. Alongside Pop Rock, the Japanese pair made history in ...

Johnson was a pioneer of the Delta blues movement in the early 1930s, performing on the streets of southern towns of Mississippi and Arkansas. Johnson followed in the footsteps of other notable ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...

Johnson, according to legend, sold his soul to the devil to learn the blues, and in doing so invented the first truly American musical genre. The new Faustian opera, premiering in a fully staged ...

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 ...