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“Everyone has a particular first-hand life experience but this particular segregated, sharecropping, slavery-type experience ends at that generation.”
As a wind blew in off of the Mississippi River, the Mighty Mississippi kicked off the big three-state Bridging the Blues affair with deep blues and everything delta residents and fans of the music and area love! Tomorrow is even more!
Third annual event to feature more than two weeks of live music and hundreds of musicians!
To further establish its standing as the academic home of the blues, Delta State University is proud to announce the creation of the International Delta Blues Project!
The Delta, the cradle of American music. Find out it’s incredible history and how it gave birth to the blues and rock n roll
A hidden gem, the Mississippi bluesman to release his debut album on Big Legal Mess Records
To connect the musical past to our present, the Mississippi Delta, Arkansas, and the blues metropolis of Memphis have teamed up to create “Bridging the Blues”!! Discover The delta’s incredible history!
Every now and then a back-to-basics blues album is issued and we are amazed at how effective simplicity really is. Guitars, vocals, and the music itself. This is just such an album. Hans Theessink & Terry Evans’ Delta Time is intimate blues. Simple, beautiful, bare-bones intimate, and inspiring.
The creators of the award-winning documentaries M For Mississippi and We Juke Up in Here return in 2013 with Moonshine & Mojo Hands, a new, weekly web-TV series
I’m just gonna come flat out and say it: If you haven’t paid a visit to the Mississippi Delta yet, plan one now to this starkly beautiful, richly musical place.