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The Mississippi Delta (not to be confused with the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana) Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues. 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 ...
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 ...
Ishmon Bracey (January 9, 1899 [1] or 1901 – February 12, 1970), sometimes credited as Ishman Bracey, was an American Delta blues singer-guitarist. [2] Alongside his contemporary Tommy Johnson, Bracey was a highly influential bluesman in Jackson, Mississippi, and was one of the area's earliest figures to record blues material.
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.
In 2008, the Mississippi Blues Commission marked the site of his cabin with a marker as part of the Mississippi Blues Trail in Clarksdale, Mississippi. [68] He also received a plaque on the Clarksdale Walk of Fame. [69] Muddy Waters' Chicago Home in the Kenwood neighborhood is in the process of being named a Chicago Landmark. [70]
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music. W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-33750-2. ISBN 978-0393337501. Harris, Sheldon (1979). Blues Who's Who. Da Capo Press. Herzhaft, Gérard, Encyclopedia of the Blues (Arkansas Press) Lomax, Alan (1993). The Land Where the Blues Began. New York: Pantheon.
Delta Blind Billy, or Blind Billy, was an American Delta blues artist and outlaw. [1] As a traveling bluesman in Mississippi, he performed with his contemporaries Arthur Big Boy Crudup and Papa Charlie McCoy . [ 2 ]
The Majestic Theatre in Dallas, Texas hosted this historic performance. Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas is a live blues album, recorded in Dallas, Texas, in October 2004 by Henry James Townsend, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, Robert Lockwood Jr. and David "Honeyboy" Edwards.