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Delta Blues
- Genre family
- Blues
- 2020s recordings
- 3
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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, Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James.
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Parent genreBlues
Current genreDelta Blues
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2020s · Delta Blues
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3 recordings2020s starting recordings
KEY ARTISTS
2020s artists
ESSENTIAL ALBUMS
2020s albums
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