Delta Blues (In a Land of Cotton) is a 2001 documentary film. The movie deals with the environmental problems emanating from the drying up of the Aral...

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...

early Delta blues songs, along with rare archival film of Son House, Muddy Waters, and John Lee Hooker. Written and directed by Wim Wenders, the film explores...

Tommy Johnson (January 1896 – November 1, 1956) was an American Delta blues musician who recorded in the late 1920s and was known for his eerie falsetto...

Arkansas Delta Delta, Alabama Delta Junction, Alaska Delta, Colorado Delta, Illinois Delta, Iowa Delta, Kentucky Delta, Louisiana Delta, Missouri Delta, North...

Charley Patton, was an American Delta blues musician and songwriter. Considered by many to be the "Father of the Delta Blues", he created an enduring body...

album King of the Delta Blues Singers. Johnson's song has a typical twelve-bar blues structure (though as is common in downhome blues of this era, the...

"Honeyboy" Edwards (June 28, 1915 – August 29, 2011) was an American delta blues guitarist and singer from Mississippi. Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi...

into the location, cast and characteristics of Delta blues and North Mississippi hill country blues. Filming took place in 1990 in Memphis, Tennessee, and...

He performed it solo with his vocal and acoustic slide guitar in the Delta blues style. The song has become part of the Robert Johnson mythology as referring...

subgenres. Blues subgenres include country blues, Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues and West Coast blues. World...

Delta blues musician and sculptor. Thomas was born in Eden, Mississippi on October 14, 1926. While working in the fields, he began listening to blues...

whose work includes Mississippi Delta Blues, a 1974 documentary film Maslin, Janet (March 20, 1985). "FILM: 'MISSISSIPPI BLUES'". The New York Times – via...

spanned only seven months, he is recognized as a master of the blues, particularly the Delta blues style, and as one of the most influential musicians of the...

create the blues genre but was one of the first to publish music in the blues form, thereby taking the blues from a regional music style (Delta blues) with...

American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues...

2011. It was released on the Delta Groove label in October 2012. The DVD was nominated for Best Blues DVD of 2012 by the Blues Foundation. The same organization...

Wisconsin–Madison and its Delta Chi Fraternity, became the inspiration for the Delta Tau Chis of Animal House, and many characters in the film (and their nicknames)...

(1986 film) List of Delta blues musicians Doc Rock. "The 50s and Earlier". TheDeadRockStarsClub.com. Retrieved 2015-09-07. Eagle, Bob L. (2013). Blues: A...

The title of the film derives from the 1927 Blind Lemon Jefferson song. The film draws numerous references to the Mississippi Blues movement, particularly...

cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". His style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude". Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation...

link to the seminal Delta blues that travelled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America." His post-modern blues style is influenced...

an American Delta blues guitarist and singer, variously billed as Papa Freddie or Mr. Freddie. He is generally regarded as the first Delta bluesman to...

American electric blues musician, one of the "present-day exponents of an edgier, electrified version of the raw, uncut Delta blues sound." He was one...

Delta Lea Goodrem AM (born 9 November 1984) is an Australian singer, songwriter, television personality and actress. Goodrem signed a recording contract...

American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. He was at the forefront of transforming acoustic Delta blues into electric Chicago blues, and over...

four ten-inch speakers. There are two variations of the "Delta Blues" model, the Delta Blues with one fifteen-inch speaker or two ten-inch speakers. They...

Retrieved February 16, 2023. Cheseborough, Steve (2004). Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues. University Press of Mississippi. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-57806-650-6...

Curtis "Skip" James (June 9, 1902 – October 3, 1969) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter. AllMusic stated: "Coupling...

performed by the adults. In his study of the Delta blues, Robert Palmer discusses the appearance of Legba in blues lyrics and lore. Palmer notes that Legba...