Delta blues

The Delta blues is one of the earliest types of blues music. It started in the Mississippi Delta (a place in the US that goes from Memphis to Mississippi). Guitar and harmonica are usually used to play it.

 Beginning 
Delta blues music was first played in the 1920s. Tommy Johnson and Ishman Bracey were recorded by Victor in 1928. Robert Wilkins was first recorded by Victor in Memphis in 1928, and  Big Joe Williams and Garfield Akers were also recorded in Memphis in 1929 by Brunswick/Vocalion.

List of artists

Ishman Bracey
Willie Brown
R. L. Burnside
Sam Chatmon
Bob Cobb
James Cotton
Arthur Crudup 
CeDell Davis
David Honeyboy Edwards
Earl Hooker
John Lee Hooker
Son House
Mississippi John Hurt
Skip James
Robert Johnson
Tommy Johnson
Blind Willie Johnson
Junior Kimbrough

Robert Lockwood, Jr.
Robert Lowery
Tommy McClennan
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Blind Willie McTell
Charley Patton
Paul Pena
Pinetop Perkins
Snooky Pryor
Jimmie Rodgers
Charles David Sharp
Johnny Shines
Sunnyland Slim
Henry Sloan
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
Hound Dog Taylor
Chaz Van Gogh
Muddy Waters
Bukka White
Big Joe Williams
Howlin' Wolf

 Other websites 
Trail of the Hellhound - Delta Blues in the lower Mississippi Valley 
The Mississippi Delta Blues Society of Indianola 

Category:Blues music