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delta blues

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delta blues (uncountable) (see blues for information on plural forms)

(music) A form of blues originating in the Mississippi Delta region of the United States, generally featuring minimal instrumentation and song structure.

Delta blues (uncountable)

Alternative spelling of delta blues

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Examples

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you. David Edwards

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana. Robert Plant

Although originating in the metropolis at the mouth of the Mississippi River, New Orleans blues, with its Afro-Caribbean rhythmic traits, is distinct from the sound of the Mississippi Delta blues. Source: Internet

First is Robert Johnson 's "Traveling Riverside Blues", one of the best-known examples of Delta blues slide guitar. Source: Internet

Lomax, p. 365. Musical style Johnson is considered a master of the blues, particularly of the Delta blues style. Source: Internet

Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, but he took the blues from a regional music style ( Delta blues ) with a limited audience to one of the dominant national forces in American music. Source: Internet

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