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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...