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Electric Delta Blues. When electric guitars became the staple sound of blues, the Mississippi Delta area was one of the very first to react and adapt quickly.
Best Delta Blues Songs. by Jr Blues Charley. A selection of the most representatives Delta Blues Songs in my opinion. Follow me at: http://www.jrbluescharley.com ...More. Play all.
- Robert Lockwood Jr. Steady Rollin' Man52.8K views
- Mississippi John Hurt - You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley (Live)5M views
- James Cotton - Midnight Train (Cotton Mouth Man 2013)108.6K views
- Pinetop Perkins -- How Long Blues881.1K views
- Lead Belly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (1944) (TRUE STEREO)2.9M views
- Robert Johnson - Kind Hearted Woman Blues (1936)3.2M views
- Big Joe Williams - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out351.7K views
- Mississippi Fred McDowell - You gotta move5.8M views
- Charley Patton - Spoonful Blues (Delta Blues 1929)1.3M views
- Skip James - Devil Got My Woman3.7M views
- Robert Johnson, “Crossroads” Even music fans who don’t listen to much of the blues have likely heard folklore about how the Delta blues musician named Robert Johnson went down to the crossroads and sold his soul to the devil in exchange for success.
- Charley Patton, “High Water Everywhere” Nicknamed the Father of the Delta Blues, Charley Patton spent almost his entire life in the Mississippi Delta.
- Son House, “Grinnin’ In Your Face” “Death Letter” might have been the most influential Son House song until Jack White hadn’t revived interest in “Grinnin’ In Your Face.”
- Lead Belly, “Good Morning Blues” It would have been easy to claim “Goodnight, Irene” as the most iconic Lead Belly song, but “Good Morning Blues” wins out as Lead Belly’s best Delta blues songs.
Electric blues is blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments. The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T-Bone Walker in the late 1930s and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters in the 1940s.
The Mississippi Delta style of blues—or, simply, Delta blues—emphasized solo performances by singers accompanying themselves on guitar and relying on a host of distinctive techniques, such as the sliding of a bottleneck or metal object (such as a knife) along the fingerboard to bend notes, the use of melodic phrases on the guitar to respond ...
Feb 16, 2010 · The blues recordings that came out of the Mississippi Delta from the late 1920s through the late '30s have had an enormous impact on American music, influencing everyone from The Rolling...
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