Who is your favorite Delta blues musican

Subject: RE: BS: Who is your favorite Delta blues musican
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 03 Jun 02 - 10:32 PM

There were just so many, it's tough to pick a favourite. I just thought of Blind Willie Johnson & Bukka White.

Thank goodness that technology allows us to hear this wonderful music all these years later.

Subject: RE: BS: Who is your favorite Delta blues musican
From: CarolC
Date: 03 Jun 02 - 10:24 PM

My vote definitely goes for Mississippi Fred McDowell.

Subject: RE: BS: Who is your favorite Delta blues musican
From: khandu
Date: 03 Jun 02 - 10:22 PM

Actually, Avalon is in the Delta, but John's home( a few miles away) is in the hills, located in the Valley community where he lived when he was "rediscovered".

Another point, it has been wrongfully stated on the internet that Teoc, John's birthplace, later had it's name changed to Avalon. Actually Teoc is several miles from Avalon, located right at the end of the hills going into the Delta.

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: Who is your favorite Delta blues musican
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 03 Jun 02 - 10:16 PM

Robert Johnson, followed closely by MJH and Son House. Some purists will say that MJH's hometown of Avalon isn't in the Delta, and that accounts for why his stuff is so different to the Johnson, House, Patton etc. stuff. Given that, it's probably why he's not #1 on my list.

Subject: RE: BS: Who is your favorite Delta blues musican
From: Justa Picker
Date: 03 Jun 02 - 10:00 PM

I'm with Khandu on this one. (MJH)

Subject: RE: BS: Who is your favorite Delta blues musican
From: khandu
Date: 03 Jun 02 - 09:58 PM

Mississippi John Hurt...wonder if he is kin to Mississippi Fred McDowell, they got the same first names!

khandu

Subject: Who is your favorite Delta blues musican
From: Bobert
Date: 03 Jun 02 - 09:49 PM

Well, we kind of bounce around this from timne to time over at Tweeds but never just let it get to "battle of the bands" status. Some folks over there think that unless it was recorded before WWII than it doesn't count, but Iz not going to get into that here. My favorite is Mississippi Fred McDowell. Who's yours?????