Who is your favorite Delta blues musican

Subject: RE: Who is your favorite Delta blues musican
From: mousethief
Date: 07 Jun 02 - 04:06 PM

The "mississippi alluvial plain" and the "mississippi delta" are not coterminous. The delta ends just south of Memphis; the MAP as you say extends upstream some way.

Alex

Subject: RE: Who is your favorite Delta blues musican
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Jun 02 - 07:26 PM

GUEST, Andrew: Gotta agree with you on Son House. On my favorites list he comes in a close second. "Death Letter Blues" is awesome. I've been doing a rockified "Empire State Express" but absolutely love the way ha does that song... And as far as rankings go, Robert Johnson ranks just behind Son. I think Son gets a tad more credit because he came first and managed to live a whole lot longer. Had Robert Johnson lived to a ripe old age, it's almost impossible to comprehend how he would have effected the blues.

Bobert

Subject: RE: Who is your favorite Delta blues musican
From: khandu
Date: 07 Jun 02 - 10:30 PM

Ah, but the Delta doesn't end just south of Memphis. Everyone knows that "The Delta begins at the front steps of the Peabody"!

khandu

Subject: RE: Who is your favorite Delta blues musican
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 07 Jun 02 - 10:57 PM

Ha! That's what my book says! Do they still have the ducks there?

Subject: RE: Who is your favorite Delta blues musican
From: van lingle
Date: 07 Jun 02 - 11:04 PM

I like most of those artists from the first (recording) generation of Delta blues musicians but Charlie Patton is my favorite. His King of the Delta Blues on Yazoo was a real eye-opener for me. His voice, his rhythmic propulsion and the subtlety and complexity of his accompaniments were without equal IMHO. vl

Subject: RE: Who is your favorite Delta blues musican
From: van lingle
Date: 07 Jun 02 - 11:08 PM

BTW, Revenant has recently rereleased his complete recordings and it's suppose to be a pretty good collection.vl

Subject: RE: Who is your favorite Delta blues musican
From: khandu
Date: 07 Jun 02 - 11:31 PM

Yes, Mary, the ducks are still there, or so I hear!

In 1975, I visited with Jesse Hurt, Mississippi John's wife, in Grenada, MS. She was a rather gracious lady. She allowed me to enjoy John's guitar for a while. She had some of the recordings made shortly after his "rediscovery", however, she said she would not play them whenever she was alone, because "John would come into the room".

She told me of their son, John, Jr. She said he could play like his daddy. Unfortunately, I have never heard him. He responded to a Greenwood, MS newspaper article a few years ago, and said he lived in Detroit. I have never heard of his having made any recordings. Have any of you heard of him, or heard his music?

khandu