Murray, I broadly agree with you, but who influenced Patton, House and White - and Tommy Johnson, Ishmon Bracey, Rube Lacey, Dick Bankston and Willie Brown, etc. Wouldn't like to know who taught Patton to play slide like that?

What were the 'Delta Blues' like before these exponents? Was the blues played in the Delta prior to artists like these, or was the music perhaps more like that Of Mississippi John?

BTW Blind Willie Johnson was born in Texas, although I guess he got around a bit as well

Brian