Since the first riverboats plied the Mississippi between New Orleans and Memphis early in the last century, Delta residents have ... Rooster Blues CD R72626. White, Tony Joe.

Once complete, Entergy said the Delta Blues Advanced Power Station will be the most efficient power-generating facility in ...

Entergy Mississippi celebrated a brighter energy future for customers at a groundbreaking ceremony of the company’s newly ...

This Mississippi Delta Blues style began to lose its importance ... Home is in the Delta" and can be heard on his Bluesway Album, The Blues is Where its At; Spann sings: My home is in the Delta ...

Why Widespread Panic's cover of Warren Zevon's 'Keep Me in You Heart' sums up the band 40 years into their career.

creating many musical innovations Muddy Waters was a huge influence in turning the music of the Mississippi Delta into modern-style electric blues In 1920 Mamie Smith became the first African ...

The singer-songwriter with a golden voice plays Globe Hall on Saturday, November 16.

The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the ...

Most blue musicians hailed from the south initially, especially the Mississippi Delta ... recording his first album in 1946.

TUPELO – Offering a taste of the Mississippi Delta, The Gin has opened in west Tupelo in the former home of Steele's Dive. Owner Nikki Williams, who grew up in the Delta, renovated the interior ...

Memphis may be a major blues hub, but true aficionados know that you have to make a pilgrimage to the genre's birthplace in the Mississippi Delta. Highway 61 weaves ... After recreating the album ...