Mississippi Delta blues: Media
music
Videos
The Origin of the Blues and the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi
A discussion of the origins of the blues, from the documentary The Blues Lives...
Video: Great Museums Television (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Images
B.B. King
Mississippi-born blues legend B.B. King, 1979.
© Mike Moore/Evening Standard—Hulton Archives/Getty Images
Muddy Waters
The electric guitar became central to blues through artists such as Muddy Waters,...
Eugene Adebari—REX/Shutterstock.com
Interactives
Map of the Blues Highway (U.S. Route 61)
An interactive map of the Blues Highway (U.S. Route 61), highlighting important blues...
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