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Holmes is one of the last bluesmen who play a style known as Bentonia blues. Timothy Ivy On a pale morning in Bentonia, Mississippi ... them—pioneered the art form. Delta blues is widely ...

Nobel Prize laureate and Mississippi ... is steeped in blues history. Fittingly, it is also home to the Delta Blues Museum, the world’s first museum dedicated to the art form.

Jordan), who leave their posts as muscle in the 1930s Chicago underworld and return to their home state of Mississippi to ... listening to Delta Blues music, he loved drinking all types of whiskey ...

The Mississippi Delta isn’t ... David Jones Between barbecue stops, explore the Delta Blues Museum to understand the musical context that makes this region so significant. Visit Cat Head Delta Blues & ...

It’s a rite of passage for any blues fan or Clarksdale visitor to see the significant spot and snap a picture. Get a crash course in blues history at the Delta Blue Museum ... records and CDs, plus ...

Mississippi. That was seven years ago, when administrators first recognized the magnitude of the problem. Clarksdale, a storied delta town that gave us the golden age of the Delta blues ...

The genre’s roots run much deeper than that, drawing from Kentucky bluegrass, Southern gospel hymns, Appalachian folk music, Mississippi Delta blues, and other regional ... flourishing art scene, ace ...

From blues and jazz to rock’n’roll and soul, here are the 50 best Chess Records singles to discuss and debate, but mainly to love. But owners Leonard and Phil Chess always thought broadly and ...

Filmmaker Ryan Coogler has made his first truly original film in “Sinners,” which opens in theaters nationwide Friday. The ...

The setting of the film was also inspired by his family’s ties to a Mississippi of the past ... the epic scale of the contribution of Delta Blues when it comes to global popular culture ...