The great musicians of the Delta helped spread the blues across America

Willie Dixon. Born at the Delta’s southern tip in 1915, Willie Dixon followed the Great Migration to Chicago. There, he ...

We followed the music of the blues from 'the most Southern place on earth'

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

The artists Eric Clapton said were impossible to define: “I’d never heard anything like that”

By the 1960s and 1970s, Eric Clapton was playing guitar in a way the entire music industry envied, but he felt the same about ...

The artist Jack White said he was “missing” his whole life

Jack White knows his stuff when it comes to the history of music, but there were two essential artists he thought were "missing" from his life before.
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Keb' Mo' at Capital One Hall

With five GRAMMYs, 14 Blues Foundation Awards, and a groundbreaking career spanning nearly 50 years under his belt, Keb’ Mo’s ...
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Chess Records/UMe releases Muddy Waters’ The Best of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf's Moanin’ in the Moonlight.

Two definitive blues albums, The Best of Muddy Waters and Moanin’ in the Moonlight, are each, in their own right, a powerful collection of blues songs.