Edited sentence: However, in Delta Blues and other rural or folk style blues women rarely played the blues.In Delta Blues often female performers had some romantic connection to more notable male delta blues performers; such as Geeshie Wiley attached to Papa Charlie McCoy, McCoy's brother kansas Joe McCoy was attached to the arguably more notable Memphis Minnie and the seminal Charlie Patton sometimes played and recorded with his wife Bertha Lee.In big city blues women dominated the musical landscape; i.Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday