Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

Willie Dixon. Born at the Delta’s southern tip in 1915, Willie Dixon followed the Great Migration to Chicago. There, he penned some of the greatest blues songs of the century, delivering hits to Muddy ...

That’s because the evening was kicked off with a tribute to Sly Stone, who died earlier this year, that featured (among ...