THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES The Delta blues gets its name from the Mississippi Delta, which is the fertile bottomland between the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers in Mississippi. The music that originated in ...

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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner. In ...

Mamie Smith was the first black vocalist to record the blues. The song was "Crazy Blues," and it became a hit. But it happened almost by accident. "In a sense it was happenstance that Mamie Smith ...

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 ...

Put on your blue suede shoes and board the plane to Memphis, Tennessee — a soulful southern city in the midst of a creative renaissance, and where the rhythms of blues, soul and rock 'n' roll pulse ...

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 ...