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Seminal gospel-blues artist Blind Willie Johnson is undoubtedly one of the biggest bottleneck slide guitarists. The Tx street-corner evangelist is recognized as very much for the his effective and fervent gruff tone of voice as he’s for his capability like a guitarist. He frequently sang inside a tough, bass tone …

Tx Alexander sang the blues within a tone of voice that noises and feels today like this of the kindred heart to Huddie Ledbetter, Washboard Sam, Henry Thomas, or Blind Lemon Jefferson, with whom he sang through the early 1920s. Through the years 1927-1934, he documented some 69 edges (64 …

Among the initial & most influential Delta bluesmen to record, Omit James was the best-known proponent of the so-called Bentonia school of blues players, a genre stress invested with just as much fanciful scholarly “study” as any. Coupling an oddball electric guitar tuning established against eerie, falsetto vocals, Adam’ early …

Veteran bluesman Otha Turner was the last surviving get better at from the Mississippi back-country fife and drum custom. He was created in 1908, spending his adult existence like a sharecropper in the town of Como, a location several kilometers northeast from the Delta area which also offered rise to …