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Delta Blues
- Genre family
- Blues
- 1940s recordings
- 1
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Meet Delta Blues
Delta Blues is a branch of the Blues family, with its own performance and recording traditions.
The clearest way to understand Delta Blues is to hear how its rhythm, timbre and performance language change across artists and recordings.
Begin with John Lee Hooker and Dinah Washington.
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Parent genreBlues
Current genreDelta Blues
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1940s · United States · Delta Blues
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1 recordings1940s starting recordings
KEY ARTISTS
1940s artists
ESSENTIAL ALBUMS
1940s albums
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