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Thread #157325 Message #3712568
Posted By: GUEST,Joseph Scott
28-May-15 - 02:51 PM
Thread Name: Who started the Delta blues myth?
Subject: RE: Who started the Delta blues myth?
Some Child ballads have AAB lyrics in Child. Jess Morris heard AAB from the black singer Charley Willis (born 1847) in "Old Paint" before 1900.