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It originated in the Mississippi Delta and is regarded as a regional variant of country blues. Guitar and harmonica are its dominant instruments; slide guitar is a hallmark of the style. Vocal styles in Delta blues range from introspective and soulful to passionate and fiery.
Mississippi Delta blues, regional style of early 20th-century American folk music, centered in the Delta region of northwestern Mississippi.
Influencing everyone from The Rolling Stones to Cassandra Wilson, the blues recordings that came out of the Mississippi Delta from the late 1920s through the late '30s have had an enormous...
Mississippi Delta Blues is globally recognized as one of America's most important musical forms. A major catalyst for American popular culture, it exists in both a folk context and as a product of the commercial music industry.
The Official Delta Blues Museum located in Clarksdale Mississippi. The Delta Blues Museum is the state's oldest music museum.
The fertile plain that runs between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers, known as the Mississippi Delta, might be the most influential place in the country when it comes to music. It was here that Delta blues was born—a genre that has influenced rock and roll, rap, and so much more.
Mississippi Delta blues - Music, Culture, History: In the years following World War II, traditional blues fell out of favour with the public. The Delta musicians, however, continued to exert a strong influence on the music world, although often from new home bases outside the region.
Whether you’re a die-hard blues fan or a casual traveler in search of an interesting trip, you’ll find facts you didn’t know, places you’ve never seen, and you’ll gain a new appreciation for the area that gave birth to the blues.
There would be Highway 51, where bluesmen joined the Great Migration of African-Americans north, plugged in and created Chicago Blues, and Highway 61, which links the Mississippi Delta to Duluth ...
But it was the Delta blues, hailing from the area surrounding the delta of the Mississippi River, which truly began the movement of the blues and encapsulates the style, genre and soul of...