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 ...

with limited resources for playing music, used their voices as instruments, accompanied by hand-clapping as percussion. The resulting Delta blues style is regarded as the most elemental form and ...

Greg Johnson, head of special collections and professor in the UM Libraries, places a record on the Blues Archive’s antique ...

Most blue musicians hailed from the south initially, especially the Mississippi Delta ... a comment. Blues became known for ...