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 ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...

Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues. The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in ...