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Originally Posted by mojopinuk
Well folks, it's Blues week this week here at MB.
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
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That's the stuff I like. Here are some:
EDIT: These are all early 20th-century Delta Blues, not 19th-cent. spirituals, etc..
Also, these videos have relatively good sound quality for this stuff but still turn it
way up so you can hear the nuances
Charley Patton - Down the Dirt Road Blues
Bukka White - Fixin' to Die Blues
Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues
Charley Patton - Hang it on the Wall