What legend did"Mississippi Delta Blues"?!
Question: Jimmie Rodgers the singing brakeman
Answers: Jimmie Rodgers the singing brakeman
Howlin Wolf I think.
Blind Lemon Jefferson comes to mind though.
fred mcdowell
Being a lover of the style and visited Memphis and surroundings once, ah that I really tried hard to find out the answer, but my blues knowledge is very limited, friends, is there a song called "Mississippi Delta Blues"?
Yes, yes, "the Delta" usually refers just to the Mississippi so there I go to ask Charles Peabody and W. C. Handy ("The Yellow Dog Blues"), the Mississippi Sheiks, the M. Mudd Steppers and the M. Jook Band, Mississippi Matilda, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Mississippi Slim at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi John Hurt's grave in Avalon, the monument of "The King of Delta Blues singers" Robert Johnson in Morgan City, to the Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival, records named "Mississippi Delta Blues Blow my Blues Away", but...
"There can be few places on earth blessed with such a rich musical heritage as the delta - or with such a cruel back story. For years, the state's name was a byword for racism and discrimination and when Nina Simone wrote a song about the place, she simply called it 'Mississippi Goddam'." (a)
"Bessie Smith's "Back Water Blues" was a big hit at the time of the Mississippi River flood in 1927... Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie sang their 1929 'When the Levee Breaks' (after covered by Led Zeppelin)... The epic blues about the flood was Charley Patton's 'High Water Everywhere' parts 1 and 2 reports a dozen of places all over the Delta..." (b)
"...Booker T Washington White, Bukka White, did 'Mississippi Milk Blues... and 1940 'Aberdeen Mississippi Blues'... 'Slidin' Delta', by J. D. Short..."
Paul Simon, "Graceland"?