As the musical form began to evolve, Delta blues artists often worked solo, accompanying themselves on guitar or harmonica. Bottleneck and slide guitar, a rough and rhythmic intensity, and raw ...

showcased veteran Black blues musicians who performed in the first half of the 20th century but spent their latter years unrecognized and without the financial rewards reaped by the white rockers ...

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 ...

Chicago played a key role in the development of the urban blues of the 1930s. Musicians who had left the South during the Great Depression, including Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie and Tampa Red ...

Unlike many blues artists, he isn't from the south of the ... Branch has recorded and/or performed with an incredible list of Blues legends including: Muddy Waters, Big Walter Horton, Son Seals ...