Now you didn't find no muddy Mississippi blues on the radio.

He played quietly, as if he'd learned everything about the clear, light Bentonian style of Mississippi blues.

And he put across the cantankerous essence of Mississippi blues: no matter how bad things get, laughter beats tears.

"Rock-and-roll music was an outgrowth of the Mississippi blues," he writes.

He was responsible for launching the recording careers of most of the greatest Mississippi blues musicians in the 1920s and 1930s.

She has been with the Mississippi based blues and soul label, Malaco Records since 1989.

The World Music Institute presents two nights of deep Mississippi blues.

Her novel Mississippi Blues received an honorable mention.

Jerry Ricks was born in Philadelphia but has soaked up Mississippi blues since the 1950's.

Transplant home of the Mississippi blues.