The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157325 Message #3713682
Posted By: GUEST
01-Jun-15 - 12:59 PM
Thread Name: Who started the Delta blues myth?
Subject: RE: Who started the Delta blues myth?
"1) More likely that anything else, 'The Blues' were called 'The Blues' because so many of the songs made reference to having the blues--" Yes, e.g. in what Howard Odum collected before 1909 and in the lyrics from 1909 that E.C. Perrow published. Rock and roll and hip hop also got their names from lyrics used in them.