It is impossible to think of American music in this century without such Southern-derived forms as ragtime, jazz, blues, country, gospel, rhythm and blues, Cajun, zydeco, and rock'n'roll.

(TheBRHM.com) Southern soul is a genre I’ve always enjoyed. A marriage of blues, country, Black gospel music, and R&B of the ...

How The Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd turned Jacksonville, Florida into the birthplace of Southern rock.

How can you describe Southern rock? Some critics put an accent on rock, others underline the influence of social aspects, but, whatever the case is, as with any other rock music genre, the musical ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues ... Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their African homelands to America and, with limited resources for playing music ...

Jazz and blues are types of music that can trace their roots back to the early 20th Century, in the southern United States. Jazz was very popular as it was a fresh, new sound. Different styles of ...

“Clarksdale is a wonderful place to visit for music fans, especially for fans of the blues and the genres that it gave birth to, like rock ’n’ roll,” said music writer Kevin ...