The blacks tended to view the flood as wiping the slate clean, wiping out the old order ... who had come from the country, listening to the blues. Blues is a music that's highly personalized ...

“I would really love to spread their music. They were such amazing artists ... She says: “I grew up listening to old country blues, Delta blues and ragtime because my dad has always ...

David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York ... Lesser known but no less significant was the Memphis Country Blues Festival. Spanning between 1966 and 1970, the festival in Memphis ...

I grew up listening to him play old country blues music, and I grew up listening to old country blues musicians like Reverend Gary Davis and Mississippi John Hurt, and Robert Johnson, and all them.” ...

The museum, a 200-year-old shack with a tin roof, was once Hurt’s home. The country-blues singer and ... “Classic” Delta blues music was “melodically complex, haunting and often discordant ...

On any Sunday evening, from about 5 to 10 p.m., at least three or four blues bands have jam sessions in an old ... music. Those same local bands join dozens of musicians from across the country ...