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3 unusual facts about Delta blues


Delta blues

Robert Johnson traveled to San Antonio (1936) and Dallas (1937) for his ARC, and only, sessions.

Gayle Dean Wardlow

He is particularly associated with research into the lives of musicians Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson and the historical development of the Delta blues, on which he is a leading world authority.

The Search for Robert Johnson

The Search for Robert Johnson is a 1991 UK television documentary film about the Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, hosted by John Hammond, and produced and directed by Chris Hunt.


Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads

The film provided insight into the location, cast and characteristics of Delta blues and North Mississippi hill country blues.


see also

Backsliders

These guys are renowned for captivating live shows – an eclectic mix of blues styles moving from driving delta blues riffs and jungle-like rhythms to ‘Piedmont’ blues influenced ‘all-acoustic’ unplugged treatments of 1920’s songs by blues heroes such as Mississippi Fred McDowell and Robert Johnson.

Crudup

Arthur Crudup (1905—1974) - Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.

I Shall Not Be Moved

Son House on The Real Delta Blues-14 songs from the man who taught Robert Johnson (1974)

Indian blues

He has even experimented with delta blues- fusing it with Jazz, Electronica and other forms of musical styles.

Masked Marvel

Charley Patton, an American Delta Blues musician who recorded and performed under that name in the 1930s

Resonator guitar

One of the few Delta Blues players to play lap style in the 30's was Black Ace, also known as B.K. Turner.

Spruell

Freddie Spruell (1893–1956), American Delta blues guitarist and singer

Tucker Smallwood

Their self-titled first album, produced in 1994 at Clark Dimond's Dimond Studio in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, is a tribute to the music of Delta Blues King Robert Johnson with 15 tracks written by or associated with Johnson.