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All About Blues Music
The World's leading site for Blues Music. Artists' biographies with music, pictures, videos and albums: Blues History; free downloads; Facebook Diary.
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The Origins of Blues Music
The Blues began as a particular type of Black folk music that was first heard around the plantations of the Mississippi at the turn of the 19th century.
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Delta Blues Albums
The Mississippi Delta is the fertile alluvial plain in the north-west of the State. Below is a list of albums made by artists from the Delta who, in the early years of the 20th century, played in a q...
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Modern Blues Albums
From the fifties onwards, the Blues was an urban music played on electric instruments in a band setting, but many performers still payed homage to their roots in country blues. BIG JOE TURNER - THE VE...
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Janis Joplin
With a voice capable of conveying excruciating pain & heartbreaking tenderness, with emotion bleeding from every note Janis put her soul into every performance.
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WC Handy
WC Handy was in at the Birth of the Blues. This enterprising band leader, with his keen ear for a tune, turned a local folk music into a world wide phenomenon.