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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...
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    The Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States, is a museum dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing public access to and...
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  • 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...
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  • King of the Delta Blues Singers is a compilation album by American Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, released in 1961 by Columbia Records. It is considered...
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    "Son" House Jr. (March 21, 1902 – October 19, 1988) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing...
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    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...
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    of the Mississippi Delta Blues. Mexican immigrants to the Mississippi Delta greatly influenced the cuisine of the Mississippi Delta, leading to the development...
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  • 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...
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  • Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois. It is based on earlier blues idioms, such as Delta blues, but is performed...
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  • Delta Momma Blues is the fourth studio album by the country singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt, released in 1971. Unlike his previous albums, which were...
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  • ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and country blues, and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast. In the last several decades, blues music has developed...
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  • Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is one of the earliest forms of blues music. The mainly solo vocal with...
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  • Robert Johnson (category Delta blues musicians)
    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...
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  • Arkansas Delta Delta, Alabama Delta Junction, Alaska Delta, Colorado Delta, Illinois Delta, Iowa Delta, Kentucky Delta, Louisiana Delta, Missouri Delta, North...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • "Pony Blues" is a Delta blues song recorded by blues musician Charley Patton. Patton recorded the song in June 1929 during his first session. The song...
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    inception, including ragtime, hokum, country blues, Delta blues, boogie-woogie, jump blues, Chicago blues, and blues-rock. Eastern Arkansas' predominantly African-American...
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  • Delta Blues and Spirituals is a live album by the American blues musician Son House, released in 1995. It was part of the Capitol Blues Collection, a...
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  • 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...
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  • King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II is a compilation album by American blues musician Robert Johnson, released in 1970 by Columbia Records. In 2003...
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    Clarksdale, Mississippi (category Mississippi Blues Trail)
    is in the Mississippi Delta region and is an agricultural and trading center. Many African-American musicians developed the blues here, and took this original...
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    The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center is a museum in Indianola, Mississippi dedicated to the Delta blues and music legend B.B. King. The stated...
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    Delta Blues (デルタブルース, born 3 May 2001) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2006 Melbourne Cup. He was the first Japanese horse...
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  • of the blues which developed among the freed African Americans in the latter half of the 19th century and beginning 20th century. The Delta blues is the...
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  • Fruteland (2002). Beginning Delta Blues Guitar. Alfred Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7390-3006-6. Kernfeld, Barry, ed. (2007). "Blues progression". The New Grove...
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  • availability for the Delta Kream sessions. In a statement, Auerbach said: "We made this record to honor the Mississippi hill country blues tradition that influenced...
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  • Slide guitar, homemade percussion instruments, and influences from Delta blues, modern classical, and Appalachian musical traditions. The Barr Brothers'...
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    Mississippi Delta, but other regions of the state are also commemorated. Several out-of-state markers have also been erected where blues with Mississippi...
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  • blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (Scott) Eddie "Bongo" Brown (1932–1984) – percussionist (Clarksdale) Willie Brown (1900–1952) – delta blues guitarist...
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