‘Delta Blues’ Archives
Marshall Lawrence “Doctor of the Blues”
Marshall Lawrence "Doctor of the Blues" is an awesome slide guitar player out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is also a
Charlie Patton – Father of Delta Blues!
If blues started somewhere it was probably with Charlie Patton - 1891-1934. I love Charlie Patton and the simple sound of early (maybe the first) delta blues . Think how progressive this must have sounded in the 1920! Charlie Patton was a pioneer of [...]
R. L. Burnside – 1926 -2005
Imagine being inspired to pick up a guitar for the first time at 22 after hearing John Lee Hooker play Boogie Chillin' in 1948, heading over to your neighbor Mississippi Fred McDowell to learn how its done and thinking about your cousin-in-law done good [...]
Deep Blues (Movie)
Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads is the DVD version of a great book that I blogged about here. I'm was pretty biased towards the book. You know what they say take a book, condense it to six sentences and you have the movie. Thats not [...]
Robert Palmer – Deep Blues (Book)
For years I thought Robert Palmer the rock star and Robert Palmer the Rolling Stone magazine music critic were the same person. In my defense there were some similarities. Similar in age they both died at early ages, not that far apart. Another similarity [...]