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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 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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    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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    "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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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 album by the country singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt, released in 1971. Unlike his previous albums, which were influenced...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • the blues. The series originally aired on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States. Director Martin Scorsese pays tribute to the Delta blues...
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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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  • name is inspired by the Delta blues, an early style of blues music that originated in the Mississippi Delta. The Delta Blues 210 is a member of the Classic...
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    The Peavey Delta Blues 115 is a guitar amplifier produced by Peavey Electronics. It is a tube amplifier designed for Blues musicians. The name is inspired...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • "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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    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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    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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    Mississippi River, New Orleans blues, with its Afro-Caribbean rhythmic traits, is distinct from the sound of the Mississippi Delta blues. In the late 1940s, New...
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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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    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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  • 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...
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    Charley Patton (category Delta blues musicians)
    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...
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