Delta Blues
The Delta blues grew from music made by people with few instruments and limited resources. Bands were rare, and most musicians worked solo. Harmonica and guitar, especially slide guitar, are the most common instruments. With no formal training, the patterns in Delta blues are often uneven, and the lyrics are more spoken than sung.http://www.pbs.org/theblues/roadtrip/deltastyle.html
Blues artists were recorded commercially in the 1920s and 1930s, but their songs did not receive wide release or promotion. Instead, these "race records" were released and promoted only within the black community, and were considered to be of little interest to whites.
Beginning in the 1930s, folklorists John Lomas and his son Alan began traveling through the Mississippi delta region, searching out and recording the influential blues musicians in the area. In some cases, these recordings are all that exist of these musicians; in other others, the recordings led later musicians to search out the early blues pioneers.http://www.thebluestrail.com/artists/mus_jal.htm
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How to Become a Blues Musician
- Introduction
- Step 1: Listen and Study
- Step 2: Understand the Blues
- Step 3: Play the Blues
- Conclusion
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Marva Wright
2007: After the Levees Broke
2006: Do Right Woman: The Soul of New Orleans
2004: Glitter Queen
2000: Best of Marva Wright
2000: Marva
1999: Bluesiana Mama
1998: Heartbreakin Woman
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Buddy Guy
Yahoo! Music: Similar to Buddy Guy
Last.fm: Similar to Buddy Guy
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John Mayall
- 1965: John Mayall Plays John Mayall
- 1966: Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton
- 1967: A Hard Road
- 1967: Bluesbreakers with Paul Butterfield
- 1967: Crusade
- 1967: Blues Alone
- 1968: Diary of a Band Volume 1
- 1968: Diary of a Band Volume 2
- 1968: Bare Wires
- 1969: The Turning Point
- 1970: Empty Rooms
- 1979: Bottom Line
- 1988: The Power of the Blues
