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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]
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 ...
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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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 ...
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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 1987 and 1988 she received the W. C. Handy Award for best traditional female blues artist. [2] In 1987 she made her New York debut, accompanied by Evans and Walter Perkins . [ 6 ] Her first American full-length album, Feelin' Good , released in 1990, won a Handy Award for best acoustic album.