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The fertile plain that runs between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers, known as the Mississippi Delta, might be the most influential place in the country when it comes to music. It was here that Delta blues was born—a genre that has influenced rock and roll, rap, and so much more.

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Playlist Enlarge this image A show at Red's, a juke joint in Clarksdale, Miss., where it's advertised that you can see live blues seven nights a week. Kirk Siegler/NPR CLARKSDALE, Miss. —.

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JACKSON, Miss. — Blues is inspired by place — the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once worked by day; by the triumphs and struggles in life; by love found and love lost..

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The blues represent lessons about ways of dealing with pain and suffering that transcend time. MACE has significantly increased knowledge of and pride in the blues as a distinctive form of the Mississippi Delta's arts and culture. When the Mississippi Delta Blues Festival began in 1978, it was the only major festival of its kind in the South.

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Welcome to the Mississippi Blues Trail, your unforgettable journey into the land that spawned the single most important root source of modern popular music.

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The purpose of the Annual Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival is to reach a worldwide audience with a celebration of the contributions the Mississippi Delta Blues culture has made to the American story - and to help preserve that culture. Mississippi Delta Blues is globally recognized as one of America's most important musical forms.

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The Mississippi Delta: the 'land where the blues was born.' Romantic as it may seem, the term isn't too far from the truth. Today we look at what exactly gave birth to Delta blues and why it's still a cultural cornerstone of American music history. The Mississippi Delta is a fertile plain that runs between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers.

What is Delta blues and why was it so influential?

The Mississippi Delta style of blues—or, simply, Delta blues—emphasized solo performances by singers accompanying themselves on guitar and relying on a host of distinctive techniques, such as the sliding of a bottleneck or metal object (such as a knife) along the fingerboard to bend notes, the use of melodic phrases on the guitar to respond to t.

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The Delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, a region of the United States that stretches from north to south between Memphis, Tennessee, and Vicksburg, Mississippi, and from east to west between the Yazoo River and the Mississippi River.

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July 21, 2023 - Delta Blues Museum is adding a special event to kick off its 2023 Sunflower Festival activities, thanks to a Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC) Mini-Grant just announced. The grant will support a special panel discussion, "From Hand to Hand: Passing Down the Blues," featuring three graduates of the Delta Blues Museum Arts.

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Most Blues fans have heard of Delta Blues, which originated in the fields of the Delta, along the length of the Mississippi River, but the Northern Hill Country region is home to the.

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July 13, 2023 - Delta Blues Museum awarded $24,000 two-year operating grant from Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC) for fiscal year 2024 to help with educational programs and special exhibits for the museum's 45th anniversary. Director Shelley Ritter said these funds are vital to the Museum as it approaches a milestone year.

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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.

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The Mississippi Delta (not to be confused with the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana) Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues. It originated in the Mississippi Delta and is regarded as a regional variant of country blues. Guitar and harmonica are its dominant instruments; slide guitar is a hallmark of the style.