The Birthplace of America’s music and where so many creative trailblazers have found their passion, Mississippi speaks to generations of music lovers with historical landmarks, trails, music festivals ...

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 ...

We explore the origins of the legend of Robert Johnson, the man who sold his soul to the devil to become a Delta blues guitar ...

When I learned Mississippi had a Blues Trail honoring the people ... Stolle launched the Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art ...

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 town is a music lover’s paradise ... visitors can check out Cat Head Delta Blues and Folk Art where a wealth of blues music and associated memorabilia is for sale ...

These presentations prove the worth ofmyriad state archivists working to preserve one of Mississippi’s greatest gifts to the world of art, the Delta Blues. Merry Christmas to the Blues.