Musicians from the Arkansas Delta Featured in BLACK 'N DA BLUES . This show weaves together live music and oral history in order to tell a story about the last century in Phillips County including ...

Delta Blues Music. As the flood waters rose, ... But the vast majority of African American recording artists, especially blues and gospel singers, sold almost entirely within the black community.

Included in Freeman’s show are songs stretching as far back as 1927, with Blind Willie Johnson’s landmark 1927 recording ...

Raised in the Mississippi Delta, the blues shaped music for generations. ... — Two men — one Black, one white — arrived at Stovall Plantation on the last day of August 1941. ...

While the first part of THV11’s Black Music Month series explored much of the history of Arkansas Black Musicians, The Chitlin' Circuit and the Delta Blues, parr two focuses on the pride of ...

The actor's part-music-part-cinema production about the history of blues will take the stage at Ravinia on Aug. 1.

From Sister Rosetta Tharpe's prototypical guitar skills to Frankie Knuckles' pioneering Chicago house sound, these are the Black musicians responsible for nearly everything you love about music today.

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Jan. 4, 2022. Click here for that audio. On the new album “Delta Kream,” The Black Keys are, as the song says, “Goin' Down South.” Guitar and ...

At the heart of this development were iconic black male blues singers whose voices and instruments told profound stories that shaped American music. From the Mississippi Delta to Chicago, these ...

B.B. King Is King of the Blues--Black Music That Whites Now ... This Mississippi Delta Blues style began to lose its importance just before W.W.II as the blacks and their new Blues moved from ...

Black musicians in Arkansas aren't mastering one sound— from delta blues to punk, gospel to pop, and jazz to trap, these ...

The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods; it's the birthplace of uniquely American music. As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster ...