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Pages in category "Blues musicians from Mississippi" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 207 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, a region of the United States that stretches from north to south between Memphis, Tennessee, and Vicksburg, Mississippi, and from east to west between the Yazoo River and the Mississippi River. The Mississippi Delta is historically famous for ...
Mississippi is best known as the home of the blues which developed among the freed African Americans in the latter half of the 19th century and beginning 20th century. The Delta blues is the style most closely associated with the state, and includes performers like Charley Patton, Robert Johnson (buried in Greenwood, MS), David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Willie Brown, Tommy Johnson, Ishmon Bracey, Bo ...
Blind Mississippi Morris (born 1955) – blues artist ; Lucille Bogan (1897–1948) – blues singer ; Charley Booker (1925–1989) – blues singer and guitarist ; Eddie Boyd (1914–1994) – blues musician ; Bobby Bradford (born 1934) – jazz musician and composer
Blues music can't be explained in just a few words. It's a way of life and it comes from the heart. These 25 songs show the breadth and depth of the genre.
Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. [1] They come from different eras and include styles such as ragtime - vaudeville , Delta and country blues , and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast . [ 2 ]
Robert Leroy Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, possibly on May 8, 1911, [4] to Julia Major Dodds (born October 1874) and Noah Johnson (born December 1884). Julia was married to Charles Dodds (born February 1865), a relatively prosperous landowner and furniture maker, with whom she had ten children.
Hill country blues (also known as North Mississippi hill country blues or North Mississippi blues) is a regional style of country blues.It is characterized by a strong emphasis on rhythm and percussion, steady guitar riffs, few chord changes, unconventional song structures, and heavy emphasis on the "groove", which has been characterized as the "hypnotic boogie".