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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]
Pages in category "Delta blues musicians" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. [1] They come from different eras and include styles such as ragtime - vaudeville , Delta and country blues , and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast . [ 2 ]
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 ...
In 1961, Columbia Records released King of the Delta Blues Singers, an album representing the first modern-era release of Johnson's performances, which started the "re-discovery" of Johnson as blues artist. In 1970, Columbia issued a second volume, King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II.
List of boogie woogie musicians; List of British blues musicians; List of Chicago blues musicians; List of classic female blues singers; List of country blues musicians; List of Delta blues musicians; List of electric blues musicians; List of gospel blues musicians; List of jump blues musicians; List of Piedmont blues musicians; List of soul ...
Born Charles Isaiah Ross, he was a harmonica player, guitarist and singer of country blues, Delta blues and juke joint blues. He recorded several albums from the 1960s to the 1990s for various labels, including Fortune Records and JSP Records. [112] Carl Rutherford (April 25, 1929 – January 28, 2006). [113]
Junior Kimbrough (1930–1998) – blues artist (Hudsonville) Albert King (1923–1992) – blues guitarist and singer ; B. B. King (1925–2015) – blues guitarist and singer-songwriter ; Little Freddie King (born 1940, aka Fread Eugene Martin) – Delta blues guitarist