Mississippi Delta Blues
Singer guitarist and harmonica player who recorded three singles.
Mississippi delta blues. Woodrow adams april 9 1917 august 9 1988. The delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. Mississippi delta blues is globally recognized as one of americas most important musical forms.
List of delta blues musicians a. It originated in the mississippi delta and is regarded as a regional variant of country blues. Perhaps the most influential of the many styles of blues music mississippi delta blues also called delta blues rose out of the fertile agricultural triangle located between vicksburg mississippi to the south and memphis tennessee to the north and bordered by the mississippi river to the west and the yazoo river to the east.
In this region where cotton was the primary cash crop much of the property was owned by white plantation owners and worked by black sharecroppers. Tommy bankhead october 24 1931 lake cormorant mississippi december 16. Guitar and harmonica are its dominant instruments.
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 stones to. Sam carr april 17 1926. Muddy waters mississippi delta blues.
It is an agricultural region where cotton was once king and where precision ag rules today. Delta blues sounds best of the mississippi deltas stars find the album here. A major catalyst for american popular culture it exists in both a folk context and as a product of the commercial music industry.
Slide guitar is a hallmark of the style. The mississippi delta style of bluesor simply delta bluesemphasized 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 to the voice in an improvised call and response pattern and a reliance on vamps repeated chord progressions that precede the entrance of the voice. Httpbitly1fiqf5d httpbitly1jnjyxu httpbitly1nlr2ju httpamz.
The mississippi delta not to be confused with the mississippi river delta in louisiana delta blues is one of the earliest known styles of blues.