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Country blues and Delta blues guitarist and singer, collaborator with Mose Vinson; started recording late in his career, beginning in the 1990s. Charley Booker (September 3, 1925, Sunflower County, Mississippi – September 20, 1989). Singer and guitarist, mostly active around Leland and Greenville, Mississippi, in the 1940s and early 1950s. [6]
All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6. Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8. Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.
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Delta blues [99] Henry "Son" Sims: 1890 1958 Mississippi Delta blues [100] Bessie Smith: 1894 1937 Tennessee Classic female blues [101] Clara Smith: 1894* 1935 South Carolina Classic female blues [102] J. T. "Funny Papa" Smith: 1885* 1940* U.S. Country blues [103] Mamie Smith: 1883 1946 Ohio Vaudeville blues [45] Pinetop Sparks: 1910 1935 ...
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List of Chicago blues musicians; List of classic female blues singers; List of country blues musicians; D. List of Delta blues musicians; E.
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 ...
Del Rey (born December 22, 1959) is an American blues singer and guitarist. Rey specializes in blues and jazz from 1900 to 1950. She developed a Women in American Music concert/lecture series to provide an historical and cultural look at the contribution of women to music in the early 20th century. She is recognized for her syncopated style of ...