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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 .
Early country blues and Delta blues guitarist and vocalist. [7] Willie Brown (August 6, 1900 – December 30, 1952). Guitarist, singer and songwriter. [8] R. L. Burnside (November 23, 1926, Oxford, Mississippi – September 1, 2005). Acoustic and electric North Mississippi hill country blues, Delta blues, and juke joint blues guitarist and ...
Robert Johnson (1911–1938) – blues and Delta blues musician ; Syl Johnson (1936–2022) – blues and soul singer (Holly Springs) Margie Joseph (born 1950) – R&B and soul singer ; Junior Kimbrough (1930–1998) – blues artist (Hudsonville) Albert King (1923–1992) – blues guitarist and singer
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 ...
Many Delta blues artists, such as Big Joe Williams, moved to Detroit and Chicago, creating a pop-influenced city blues style. This was displaced by the new Chicago blues sound in the early 1950s, pioneered by Delta bluesmen Muddy Waters , Howlin' Wolf , and Little Walter , that was harking back to a Delta-influenced sound, but with amplified ...
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.
Mississippi Blues musician, singer and composer Bobby Rush won his third Grammy Award on Sunday at the 66th annual Grammy awards that took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.. The blues ...
In 2008 he was the recipient of The King Mose Memorial Award at the Jackson Music Awards, and in 2016 was named as front man for the B.B. King Blues Band (following King’s death at age 89 in May ...