CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — The Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale is being honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail on Thursday. The Delta Blues Museum was founded on Jan. 31, 1979. It moved ...

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CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — The Delta Blues Museum of Clarksdale is one of 10 to across the country to be honored with National Medal for Museum and Library Service from the Institute of Museum and ...

The blues took form in the Mississippi Delta and nearby river towns, where Black workers used song to mark time, trade news, and voice grief under Jim Crow rules. Travel to these places adds context ...

CLARKSDALE, Miss. — Bluesman Robert Johnson played the guitar with such genius that legend has it his talent was a gift from the devil in exchange for the musician's soul. That deal was done, ...

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Located in an old depot in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Muddy Waters boarded the train to carry the Blues to the world, this small museum tells the powerful story of the origins of the Delta Blues ...

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