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| | Delta blues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Delta blues was first recorded in the late 1920s. | | | Slide guitars and harmonicas dominated the music, while the vocals were passionate and fiery. | | | Skip James (1902-1969) American blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter, One of the most original of the Blues Musicians. |
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| | Delta acoustic blues |
| | Delta blues refers to a region of Southwestern Mississippi where a specific form of acoustic blues spawned and evolved. | | | House's Walkin' Blues in particular became a blues classic, which was reworked by Robert Johnson, and which the Stones played as they rehearsed in 1968 at their Rock and Roll Circus event. | | | Most of these artists were self-accompanied (acoustic guitar and vocals) and often served as the entertainers at "house parties" that poor, rural Afro-Americans held in their homes. |
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http://www.timeisonourside.com/STDelta.html
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| | blueman.html |
| | This required that blues performers' conceptions of both "song" and musical form be sufficiently elastic to allow for the accomodation of such improvisition to expand their musical ideas in performance. | | | Because of this practical necessity and the fact that notions of copyright were absent from this vernacular music, many songs in the repertoire of recorded blues reveal performers' familiarity with, and heavy reliance on, one another for both lyrical and instrumental inspiration. | | | Listeners who insist that the blues are sad neglect the fact that the generic melancholy of typical blues lyrics is almost always juxtaposed with a sprightly, up-tempo instrumental accompaniment and performance style that belies the lyrical contents. |
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http://www.gse.uci.edu/Lessons/blues.html
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| | Dummies::Exploring the Delta Blues |
| | Most Delta blues is played acoustically, in the manner of the original recordings of the 1920s and 1930s, with hollow-bodied guitars that were made before the electric guitar was introduced to the blues in the late 1940s. | | | In the Delta style, performers typically work solo and are usually self-accompanied on an acoustic six-string guitar. | | | An essential read in finding out about the early history of the Delta blues, it includes an appendix featuring examples of Patton's songs and a glossary of expressions used in his lyrics. |
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http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-1130.html
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| | Delta Blues: Free Tablature by Woody Mann |
| | Their styles offer some of the richest sounds in country blues and fingerstyle music. | | | This song represents many of the sounds and techniques of the guitar playing of Mississippi Delta guitar masters such as Charlie Patton, Willie Brown, and Tommy Johnson. | | | The music is written to illustrate the two lines of the picking: the bass and the treble. |
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http://www.woodymann.com/moods.html
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| | Delta Blues Doc MacLean |
| | Some of this Delta blues material was documented on the Flying Fish recording "Sam Chatmon and His BBQ Boys" featuring Sam Chatmon, Doc MacLean and Colin Linden. | | | Today, nearly thirty years after his first acoustic recordings and blues festival appearances, Doc MacLean is being rediscovered by a new generation of Delta blues audiences. | | | With Sam Chatmon, Doc MacLean played folk festivals, blues festivals, jukes, colleges, and house parties from Memphis to New Orleans, sometimes performing as far afield as San Diego, Toronto, and Winnipeg. |
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http://www.docmaclean.com
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| | Delta Blues Museum |
| | Delta bluesmen like Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Robert Johnson, legends in their own right, also inspired rockers from the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton to Elvis Presley and ZZ Top. | | | And, as with most towns throughout the Delta, Blues music prevails as the king of tunes. | | | Visitors can expect to see influences of what is known as America's only original music, all over town. |
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http://www.deltabluesmuseum.org/index.cfm?page=AboutTheDelta&subID=22
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| | The Blues . Blues Classroom . Lesson Plans . A Snapshot of Delta Blues PBS |
| | Blues musicians of the past, like today's pop stars, were influenced by a wide variety of factors when it came to making music. | | | Cream's "Crossroads" is a nice example of a cover of Johnson's "Cross Road Blues." As students watch and listen, ask them to look for the guitar techniques previously discussed and demonstrated. | | | Inform students that the theme of bargaining with the devil in these lyrics was echoed by other circumstances in Johnson's life. |
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http://www.pbs.org/theblues/classroom/intdelta.html
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| | David Honeyboy Edwards, blues musician from Shaw, Mississippi, born in 1915. |
| | "Though Edwards took up electric blues in the 1960's and has since worked on occasion with a band, he still performs authentic solo acoustic country blues and is living testament of the music's vitality" (Santelli 135). | | | David "Honeyboy" Edwards is one of the few remaining original practitioners of the acoustic Delta blues style (Santelli 135). | | | In 1992, they released his album, Delta Bluesman (Santelli 136). |
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http://www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/musicians/EdwardsHoneyboy.html
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| | Blues Lyrics On Line |
| | So enjoy this, my tribute to the blues and, I hope, a reflection not only on the blues itself but on the world in which this music was created. | | | This Lyrics Ring site is owned by Blues Lyrics On Line. | | | This Blues Ring site is owned by Blues Lyrics On Line. |
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http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/2541
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| | Blues - links |
| | - acoustic blues - free bluesy ecards avaliable. | | | On November 27, 1936 Robert Johnson recorded Crossroads Blues along with a number of other songs that are a reminder of his life and will be a legacy that will always be with us. | | | .....has essays by others as to what the Blues are, styles of Blues along with a short introduction as to who I am and a few sample.wav files for your listening pleasure. |
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http://aude.m.free.fr/blues
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| | Mississippi Delta Blues Society |
| | This means (1) soliciting membership; (2) planning the 3rd Annual Mississippi Crossroads Blues (Music) Festival; (3) offering live blues and workshops in the Delta throughout the year; and (4) producing and syndicating Mississippi Crossroads, a radio show recorded here in the Delta featuring local musicians, historians, producers and others affiliated with Delta Blues. | | | The future holds essays from MDB historians as well as fans, links to Blues Labels to buy the latest releases or classic albums right on line. | | | The WWW site will contain biographical information, including pictures, song lists and sound clips of your and our favorite MDB Artists. |
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http://www.mudcat.org/mdbs.cfm
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| | Mississippi Delta Blues |
| | The most impressive is the otherwise unknown Do-Boy Diamond, one of the greatest Delta singers on record. | | | Callicott recorded two songs in 1930, which are included here, but his later playing has a gentleness that his early sides lacked, though his guitar technique has deteriorated slightly. | | | There is little of the hard-edged, slide-heavy work that is normally considered the `Delta sound,' and the repertoire and styles include plenty of happy surprises. |
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http://www.arhoolie.com/titles/402.shtml
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| | Mississippi John Hurt and the Delta Blues |
| | John was not a real blues man but was a collector of popular songs who arranged them to entertain his neighbors on Saturday evenings. | | | A listing of all of John's albums with a review of each and links to some music samples. | | | (Columbia/Sony records 1996) This is another release of the Columbia "Roots n Blues" series. |
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http://www.mindspring.com/~dennist
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| | Links |
| | Blues From Detroit on CD Burnside Records Portland based Label. | | | Michael Barclay Blues Band Midnight Rendezvous Westcoast Blues Band. | | | The Lamont Cranston Blues Band From the Mid West. |
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http://www.island.net/~blues/links.html
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| | Amazon.com: Music: King of the Delta Blues Singers |
| | Johnson is to blues what Hank Williams is to country and Charlie Parker is to jazz. | | | As other reviewers have commented, this album is great (and is the compilation which in its original LP form triggered the whole British blues boom that lies at the foundation of much modern rock), but you should really get the Complete Recordings instead. | | | If there is a recording that is required listening for every blues fan, it's this one. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000AG6X?v=glance
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| | Delta Blues? |
| | Around 1920, the outside world became aware of an exciting style of music performed by black sharecroppers around the Clarksdale Mississippi area. | | | For the next few years, I delved deeply into it, ending up touring as a solo artist - just me and my Dobro - and releasing 3 albums of Delta Blues songs. | | | No one else, before or since, has ever equalled Son House’s vocals for sheer power and emotion. |
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http://www.ronc.net/ronc/deltablues.htm
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| | Charlie Patton - King of the Delta Blues |
| | The combined power of this vocal and guitar dynamics is unparalleled and he was the Delta's first blues celebrity. | | | Focusing on the breadth of his repertoire, it evokes a sense of what the earliest blues stylings may have sounded like, and includes bottleneck blues and sanctified songs. | | | He was a profound shaper and a giant figure in early Mississippi Delta music. |
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http://www.yazoorecords.com/2001.htm
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| | A Delta Blues Pilgrimage |
| | It is great fun, the music is often wonderful and the celebration of the blues that it all represents is certainly laudable. | | | My first connection to the fabled road was via "Highway 61 Revisited," a song and album by Minnesota native Bob Dylan, who grew up dreaming of the musical wellspring at the other end of that paved version of the Mississippi. | | | Appropriately enough, Beale Street is framed by two statues at opposite ends of the three-block area: one of W. Handy, the man who first commercialized the blues, and the other of Elvis Presley, who commercialized it beyond Handy's wildest dreams. |
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http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/courses/rock/delta.html
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| | ROBERT JOHNSON, DELTA BLUES |
| | Yet most blues scholars and critics agree that there is more than enough musical available to proclaim Johnson a musical genius. | | | Johnson's recording catalog adds up to a grand total of only twenty-nine tracks; it is criminally lean compared to those of such blues giants as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, and others. | | | Fowl Ball: An impressive flock of local and international showbirds gathered recently for an impromptu musical performance at the James D. Martin Wildlife Park in Gadsden, AL. |
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http://www.southernmusic.net/robertjohnson.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Music: Original Delta Blues |
| | This album is from 1965, after his "rediscovery" by white folk fans, but his powers are as awesome as ever. | | | The material is of variable quality, but the a capella versions of "John the Revelator" and "Grinnin' in Your Face" are effective in their starkness, and the opening track, "Death Letter Blues", is one of the most emotionally charged blues recordings of all time. | | | Styles > Blues > Instruments > Acoustic Guitar |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00002519E
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| | SC Music |
| | Bukka White was rediscovered in the '60s when he recorded "Columbus, Mississippi Blues," available on Arhoolie Records' Mississippi Delta Blues Jam in Memphis. | | | These blues ain't nothing but a good man singing about feeling bad, usually accompanied by guitar (often fretted with a bottleneck) and sometimes by harmonica. | | | Our selection comes from Booker Washington "Bukka" White who began recording in 1930s before doing time for shooting a man during a brawl. |
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http://www.unc.edu/depts/csas/socult/music/delta.htm
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| | Delta Blues: Mister Doo's Delta Blues |
| | Mister Doo plays solo acoustic delta and country blues, and raunchy, sleazy, original compositions, and is available for your laid-back party. | | | Email Mister Doo for details of gigs, or a demo CD of delta blues and originals. | | | Mister Doo is also available as a support band for your Chicago or other electric blues band - what better way to get your audience in the mood than with a small set of laid back stuff from the Delta? |
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http://www.mister-doo.co.uk
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| | Lesson- 'Crow Jane' |
| | Take this lesson in Delta blues guitar by following the guitar tab and lyrics over the next 4 pages. | | | Here's a simple arrangement from Nehemiah "Skip" James, who otherwise created some of the most complex country blues guitar music ever recorded. | | | Find out more about Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar. |
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http://www.acousticguitar.com/lessons/crowjane/crowjane1.shtml
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| | DELTA BLUES MUSEUM |
| | More than 50 audio clips allow you to hear rare recordings of and oral history interviews with blues musicians, producers and those who have felt their influence. | | | The second illustrates how young musicians who came of age in the city learned from their elders and took blues music in new directions. | | | However, the Museum also celebrates the roots of soul music, which includes blues, gospel, country and other musical influences which intertwine in so many ways. |
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http://www.clarksdalewebinfo.com/jsp/user_page.jsp?pageid=4939
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| | Junior's Juke Joint |
| | The experience was like listening to God sing blues, or, rather, people singing blues for God. | | | Click on the little lady holding the CD sign and go to a list of every CD I talk about here in the juke joint and a couple I don't. | | | The jukeboxes in redneck honky tonks will usually have a CD by B.B. King or Bobby Blue Bland. |
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http://www.deltablues.net
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| | Delta Blues |
| | lyrics to blues songs from then and now... | | | Mississippi Delta Blues; Traditional Acoustic Blues by a Living Blues Artist... | | | If you love guitars then you need to know all about them and where to buy the coolest sounding ones. |
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http://www.cool-sounding-acoustic-guitars.info/guitar/delta-blues.html
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| | Sheet Music Plus - Delta Blues Guitar |
| | Surrounding this riveting moment of living history are detailed demonstrations and thrilling performances of solo country blues, slide guitar, boogie bass lines and lead guitar. | | | Keith Wyatt: Beyond Basics - Acoustic Blues Guitar - VHS Video For guitar... | | | Learning to Play Blues Guitar By Happy Traum... |
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http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/a/item.html?id=78010&item=2915686
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| | Delta Blue's Central Pennsylvania Blues Calendar |
| | Support live Blues by attending at least one Blues show a month (at a club, concert hall or festival), by buying CDs by your favorite Blues artists, | | | IBC Blues Challenge Concert followed by Hubert Sumlin and the Nighthawks | | | Ronnie Ray and the Coolers; Skyla Burrell Blues Band; others TBA |
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http://www.delta-blues.com/PABLUES.HTM
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| | TBH, The Delta Log 1 of 2 |
| | The next afternoon, we settled into a room in New Orleans, then made a beeline for Bourbon Street. | | | Our search for New Orleans blues continued that night. | | | Here's a shot from Metairie Cemetery, the biggest and best in New Orleans. |
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| | Cat Head |
| | He's recorded at Delta Recording Studio and Studio 61... | | | Fridays, 6pm (happy hour) - The Delta Eye, Clarksdale, MS (www.thedeltaeye.com): Piano Red plays blues, soul and pop instrumentals. | | | 3:40/4:25 Diunna Greenleaf and The Blue Mercy Band |
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| | Delta Blues |
| | Mississippi Delta Blues is globally recognized as one of the most important musical forms of the twenty first century. | | | They now need to be preserved and showcased to large general audiences as the legacy of a living culture. | | | Delta Blues soon became the emotional and literary voice of black singers across the south. |
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| | Delta Blues Festival, Antioch California |
| | Roberts true delta roots along with Rev. Rabia's newer folk-blues sound, got the crowd ready for a strong and diverse day of blues music. | | | People of all age, race, and culture joined together to celebrate life, family, dance and music. | | | Lady Bianca hit the stage with her Mighty Oakland Sound, and offered up some truly soulful blues. |
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http://www.deltabluesfestival.net
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| | Central Delta Blues |
| | Tutwiler claims Handy's chance meeting with a guitarist at their railroad station, led to him writing blues music, while Cleveland here claims the same. | | | As mentioned above, W.C. Handy had an experience with blues music here in front of the courthouse (see above). | | | Since Handy's pay was all the same if he played or not, he let the local boys come up for a few songs. |
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| | Cultural center of Mississippi delta blues music & heritage in Helena Arkansas |
| | Cultural center of Mississippi delta blues music & heritage in Helena Arkansas | | | From its music to the mighty river that runs through it, the Delta story unfolds within this unique Helena landmark. | | | The Visitors Center, located one block north of the Depot, features the museum's permanent music exhibit, temporary exhibits and the Museum Store. |
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| | Delta Boogie Teasers |
| | New posts at the Delta Boogie Music Forum. | | | Delta Boogie Press Releases - Send your info to news@deltaboogie.com | | | New and Updated on our Band and Schedule Pages. |
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| | Welcome To The Delta Blues Project |
| | Along the way, we created something new while staying true to the delta blues, the foundation of American roots music. | | | Our music comes to you in the classic blues storytelling tradition. | | | The songs were passed to us from hand to hand - Robert Johnson, Fred McDowell, John Hurt, Johnny Shines, Henry Townsend, Leroy Pierson, and other Delta Blues masters - from the Mississippi delta to the St. Louis riverfront and west to the Rocky Mountains. |
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http://www.thedeltabluesproject.com
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| | Delta Boogie Blues Fest |
| | Blues Fest will continue the next three Sundays Sept. 11, 18 and 25. | | | Fred and Suzanne are bringing Blind Boy White with them from Little Rock. | | | Delta Boogie Blues Fest held annually in Jonesboro will begin Sunday, Sept. 4 from noon until dark with jams and open mike performances. |
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http://www.deltaboogie.com/bluesfest
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| | Groundzero Blues Club |
| | This statement rings true to just about anyone who has a deep love for blues music. | | | Clarksdale, Mississippi has long been known as Ground Zero to blues aficionados from around the globe. | | | Ground Zero Blues Club has been featured on CNN, Turner South, The Food Network, The Travel Channel, The Discovery Channel and has been the site for filming of "Last of The Mississippi Jukes" and an eight part concert film series called "Blues Divas". |
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http://www.groundzerobluesclub.com/home.html
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| | Delta and Southern recipes |
| | Pork neckbones 'n' rice: From Carolina Henderson, the cook and old blues song expert at ZZ's juke joint in Ferriday, Louisiana. | | | Easy Pot Roast: Use venison or beef and cook it on your stove or campfire. | | | Smoked Meat for beans and turnip greens, etc. Learn how to smoke your own. |
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http://www.deltablues.net/recipe.html
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| | delta blues |
| | Egypt - Heavy BluesRock to Delta Blues - Egypt - heavy blues rock three piece band based in East Anglia, UK. | | | HP Lange - Unpolished delta blues, gospel and intricate ragtime guitar - HP Lange - upoleret delta blues, gospel og ragtime guitar. | | | the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival - Produces the Annual Sunflower River Blues Festival in Clarksdale, MS, home of the Delta Blues Museum |
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| | The Mudcat Cafe |
| | In an effort to both provide you with Folk and Blues Music resources as well as raise money for the Mudcat, we present The Mudcat Record Shop. | | | Read about your favorite blues artists and get a tour of the blues. | | | Find out what the Mudcat's own David W. Scotese has to say about it. |
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http://www.mudcat.org
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| | Delta Blues and Food Blog |
| | You can't properly experience the Delta without savoring its food and its music. | | | We've been reporting frequently on this blog, so check us out. | | | Reporters Leslie Kelly and Jon W. Sparks, and photographer Matthew Craig went down Highway 61 (and a few two-laners) recently to check out the authentic roots of great food and great blues. |
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http://blog.commercialappeal.com/deltablues
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| | Larry's World Of BLUES |
| | Your Own Texas Blues Backup Band On CD or TAPE ! | | | "Blues ain't nothin but a good man feelin bad, | | | The EASIEST Win98/NT ASCII Guitar Tab Program Available. |
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http://www.deltabluesman.com
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| | DELTA BLUES - Jim Wright's Voyager site |
| | Voyager Links Trek Links Sci Fi Links Other Links Praise for DELTA BLUES The Mormon Song (MP3) | | | Now that Voyager is long since in the can and this site is long past its "up-to-date and relevant" status, I feel like using my home page as a design guinea pig, in the hope that not that many people are paying attention. | | | Voyager is no longer first-run, but it continues to find new fans. |
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http://www.reviewboy.com
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| | DELTA BLUES @ Reviewboy.com - Voyager Review Archive |
| | DELTA BLUES @ Reviewboy.com - Jim's Voyager Reviews Archive | | | DELTA BLUES @ Reviewboy.com - Voyager Review Archive | | | Seven of Nine blows the lid off that whole Delta Quadrant thingie. |
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| | Regina Delta Blues Association: Home |
| | Want to be ' In Tune' with The Regina Delta Blues concerts and happenings? | | | The performer information will remain on the Festivals page and updated when we get next years show set. | | | Send us your email address and we will keep you informed with our newsletter. |
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http://www.reginablues.ca
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| | THE DELTA BLUES |
| | Buy B.B. King - Live at the Apollo | | | The Paul Butterfield Blues Band w/The Leaves - At the Whiskey A-Go-Go Loren, Dennis | | | Buy The Paul Butterfield Blues Band w/The Leaves - At the Whiskey A-Go-Go |
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