Here are 16 great Delta blues artists. All are Black. Fifteen are men.

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; it's ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

The blues recordings that came out of the Mississippi Delta from the late 1920s through the late '30s have had an enormous impact on American music, influencing everyone from The Rolling Stones to ...

Almost everything about pop music is subject to debate--from naming the best Beatles album to figuring out whether Jackie Brenston’s “Rocket 88” or the Crows’ “Gee” was the first true rock ‘n’ roll ...