“Classic” Delta blues was melodically complex ... “Avalon Blues,” a track Hurt named after his hometown, was released in 1930. Timothy Ivy Hoskins headed south in late February 1963 ...

Clarksdale was the place where blues legends like Sam Cooke, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters got their start, but its ...

The community effort and attention around “Sinners,” a blockbuster horror movie, became an opportunity to talk about ...

By Susannah Broun for The Daily Yonder. Broadcast version by Trimmel Gomes for Mississippi News Connection for the Public ...

This 2016 documentary from Sam Pollard and narrated by Common, tells how two different sets of white music fans tracked down nearly forgotten 1930s blues ... central for Delta Blues and the ...

Delta blues music, a style born in the Mississippi ... who were active or influential during the 1930s setting of the film, shaped this genre. In addition, legends surrounding figures like Robert ...

Sinners is a story where the Mississippi Delta's revered soul meets fangs, fiddles, and the ghosts of the blues. And because ...

The movie is based on the believable theory that music or especially gifted musicians can conjure up magic through their performances.

I focused on the Mississippi Delta and the blues and the sharecroppers and the ... We looked at Eudora Welty who was a photographer in the 1920s and 1930s. She went through the South and she ...

A vampire film set in 1930s Mississippi may seem out of left ... That trip to the birthplace of the Delta Blues popularized by Charley Patton inspired Coogler to make “Sinners” as big and ...

Jordan plays twin brothers who open a juke joint in 1930s Mississippi only to find ... and simultaneously the profound nature — of a Delta blues song. But I wanted it to have the contrast ...