We explore the origins of the legend of Robert Johnson, the man who sold his soul to the devil to become a Delta blues guitar ...

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 ...

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 ...

Big Bill Broonzy was a giant of the 1930s urban blues ... He was a key player in the transition between the country blues of the Mississippi Delta and the electric blues of 1950s.

Chicago played a key role in the development of the urban blues of the 1930s. Musicians who had left ... none more potent than the myth that Delta bluesman Robert Johnson, who died aged 27 ...