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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 in Delta blues range from introspective and soulful to passionate and fiery.
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Mississippi Delta blues, regional style of early 20th-century American folk music, centred in the Delta region of northwestern Mississippi.
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.
Each record highlights a different artist, ranging from Delta blues originators like Skip James and Bukka White to lesser-know performers like Furry Lewis and Honeyboy Edwards.
Since its creation, the Delta Blues Museum has preserved, interpreted and encouraged a deep interest in the story of the blues. Established in 1979 by the Carnegie Library Board of Trustees and re-organized as a stand-alone museum in 1999, the Delta Blues Museum is the state's oldest music museum.
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.
The blues recordings that came out of the Mississippi Delta from the late 1920s through the late '30s have had an enormous impact on American music, influencing everyone from The Rolling...
Perhaps the most influential of the many styles of blues music, Mississippi Delta blues, also called Delta blues, rose out of the fertile agricultural triangle located between Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the south and Memphis, Tennessee, to the north, and bordered by the Mississippi River to the west and the Yazoo River to the east. In this ...