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Description of Early American Blues

 
This category covers the earliest recorded forms of the blues, from W.C. Handy to Robert Johnson. The recordings are sometimes poor in quality, but they retain the unquestionably haunted feeling of this brooding, soulful music.
 

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Early American Blues Key Artists

 
Big Bill Broonzy

Over three decades,
Broonzy applied his fluid
guitar playing and down
home vocals to Acoustic,
Country and Chicago Blue...

Blind Lemon Jefferson

Pre-War blues singer and
guitarist whose rough
vocals and fleet guitar
playing produced an
archetypal form of the bl...

Blind Willie Johnson

A major influence on slide
guitar, Blind Willie Johnson
played gospel-heavy blues
in Pre-War Texas. He died
in 1947. As the story goes,...

Blind Willie McTell

McTell is one of the very
earliest recorded blues
musicians. He was an
excellent acoustic player
and singer. McTell could r...

Charley Patton

The Delta's first true star,
Charley Patton's tortured
growl and explosive guitar
playing were a major draw
in 1930s South. Patton is o...

Furry Lewis

Lewis' acoustic,
story-telling blues link
nineteenth-century Ragtime
and folk styles to blues of
the twentieth century. Le...

Mississippi Sheiks

Active during the '20s and
'30s, the Sheiks combined
folk and blues styles, with
the fiddle featured as lead
instrument.

Robert Johnson

Myths of the blues include
Satanism, crimes of passion,
and superstition. Most of
these can be attributed to
Robert Johnson. Robert J...

Son House

A major influence on the
formation of Delta Blues,
Son House's music is
bare-boned and haunting.
After not playing guitar fo...

Tampa Red

Influential guitar player
Tampa Red used the sounds
of the horn as the blueprint
for his linear, personal
guitar lines.

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