EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Collins Entertainment and Concord Originals are partnering on a biopic of Robert Johnson, the influential ...

A new biopic based on the life of legendary blues singer Robert Johnson is in the works from Jesse Collins Entertainment and ...

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 ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...

Hot Springs one-man Delta Blues band Greg "Big Papa" Binns will be the featured performer at Wednesday Night Poetry at ...

Johnson was a pioneer of the Delta blues movement in the early 1930s, performing on the streets of southern towns of Mississippi and Arkansas. Johnson followed in the footsteps of other notable ...

While traveling through the South collecting music for the Library of Congress, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax ventured onto ...

More than any other musician, Muddy Waters transformed the music of the Delta into modern electric blues. His influence was at the heart of English R&B bands such as the Rolling Stones ...

Johnson, according to legend, sold his soul to the devil to learn the blues, and in doing so invented the first truly American musical genre. The new Faustian opera, premiering in a fully staged ...