![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | That's Why You Sing The Blues - MF Foster Just got back from Clarksdale and Greenwood Mississippi, drove through New Orleans...the music is just flowin' out of me into cyberspace Keywords: Delta Blues Downloads: 156 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Johnson Jones Blues - MF Foster Johnson Jones was a 96 year old, blind, Black man-he would lean his head on his cane and tell me stories of 'the day' in the 1930's in Mississippi. Johnson was a friend of Robert Johnson and I promised to write him a song one day...I waited too long and one day he was gone. Keywords: Delta Blues Downloads: 460 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Robert Johnson Medley - MF Foster/Robert Johnson Here's an arrangement of a couple of Robert's songs-I wish I could play Delta blues like the masters-this turned out more like the Stones-my respect to those great writers from Mississippi...I know I'll go there someday. Keywords: Delta Blues Downloads: 742 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Baby Please Don't Go - MF Foster/Big Joe Williams I was watching a 1950's version of Tennessee William's 'Baby Doll' and there was an old blues singer on the front porch playing a harp, stompin' his foot and singing this Big Joe William's song from the 1930's. Guess there's been hundreds of versions but up till now, you haven't heard mine-Baby Please Don't Go-MF Keywords: Delta Blues Downloads: 508 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Greewood Blues - MF Foster Remembering a long walk one night in the Delta, past Little Zion Baptist Church outside of Greenwood... Keywords: Delta Blues Downloads: 168 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | IUMA: Sigma Delta Blues Go to http://www.sigmadeltablues.com for more information and music. Keywords: Sigma Delta Blues Downloads: 18 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Mississippi's Callin' - MF Foster Just dreamin' bout Robert Johnson... Keywords: Delta blues/rock Downloads: 224 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Rollin and Tumblin - Hambone Willie Newbern Background hiss removed from Hambone Willie Newburn - "Roll And Tumble Blues" with Audacity and re-uploaded by sookietex Keywords: blues; delta blues Downloads: 699 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Delta Blues Early blues recordings, from the 1920s-30s. Keywords: delta blues; blues Downloads: 739 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | THE SEARCH FOR ROBERT JOHNSON - negromancy THE SEARCH FOR ROBERT JOHNSON Keywords: delta blues; negromancy; robert johnson Downloads: 27 |  |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | King of the Delta Blues - Night Swimming - King of the Delta Blues King of the Delta Blues - Night Swimming Keywords: King of the Delta Blues Downloads: 652 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Blind Willie Reynolds - "Third Street Women Blues Recorded in Memphis, November 26, 1930 Keywords: blues; mono; 78; delta blues Downloads: 1,417 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Blind Joe Reynolds - "Outside Women Blues" Recorded November 1929. Mono, ripped from the original 78 and remastered. Keywords: blues; mono; 78; delta blues Downloads: 496 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Robert Johnson - Hellhound on My Trail - Robert Johnson "Hellhound on My Trail" is an original blues song recorded by a young drifter from the Mississippi Delta, Robert Johnson, in Dallas, Texas on Sunday, June 20, 1937, one of ten songs recorded in his second and last recording session for RCA. By the fall of 1938 Johnson was dead, at the age of 27. According to legend, Johnson sold his soul to the devil in a Faustian deal at the crossroads in return for his musical talent... Keywords: robert johnson; delta blues; blues; old blues Downloads: 1,682 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Charlie Patton - Prayer of Death, pt. 1 charlie patton's prayer of death part one Keywords: charlie patton; prayer of death; delta blues Downloads: 178 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Charley Patton - "A Spoonful Blues" Ripped from the original 78 (mono). Beautifully remastered! Keywords: blues; roots; mono; mp3; delta blues Downloads: 618 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Range In My Kitchen Blues - Frumpy Ballbreaker completely improvised little crappy slide Delta blues guitar piece...rec. in Germany in late 2006 Keywords: slide blues; accoustic blues; Delta Blues Downloads: 412 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Mattie Delaney - "Down The Big Road Blues" A beautiful remaster cut from the original 78. Keywords: blues; roots; mono; mp3; delta blues Downloads: 939 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Dust&Stone 10 Playing old country blues for the first hour, and an interview with Ben from Dust from 1,000 Years, a Bloomington, IN local folk band. Keywords: country blues; bluegrass; folk; blues; delta blues Downloads: 86 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Dust&Stone 9 Our 9th radio show on WIUX 99.1 FM Bloomington IN for the Fall 2009 semester. Streaming online at wiux.org. This show features Son House, Charley Patton, Bo Carter, Blind Blake, Chris Thomas King, Woodie Guthrie and more! Keywords: country blues; bluegrass; folk; blues; delta blues Downloads: 156 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Dust&Stone 11 Our last show of the semester. We start off with bluegrass and end with old country blues. Featuring artists such as Charlie Poole, Dock Boggs, Buell Kazee and Big Bill Broonzy. Keywords: country blues; bluegrass; folk; blues; delta blues Downloads: 166 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Dust&Stone 8 Our 8th radios show of the fall semester. Playing old country blues, and bluegrass per usual. Keywords: country blues; bluegrass; folk; blues; delta blues Downloads: 62 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Son House Won´t Play The Blues No More - Frumpy Ballbreaker own little piece on the accoustic guitar, rec. in Germany in late 2006 on a simple mp3-player :) and completely improvised on Son House´s style...I enjoy it though it´s not too good ;) Keywords: Son House; slide; accoustic guitar; Delta blues Downloads: 724 |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Robert Johnson THREE Gravesites (Delta Blues Master) - Randy Meadows My visit to all three of the graves/markers for Robert Johnson near Greenwood, Ms. On Friday, August 12th, 1938, Robert and David 'Honeyboy' Edwards were booked to play at a dance in Three Forks, near Greenwood, Mississippi. Robert was apparently showing too much interest in somebody's wife or girlfriend. The next night, the jealous husband had his friends give Robert some poisoned whiskey. Another eyewitness, Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller), claims that Robert was openly displaying affection... Keywords: Robert Johnson Mississippi Delta Blues Gravesite Downloads: 177 |  |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Worried Girl Blues - Frumpy Ballbreaker completely improvised little crappy accoustic blues in Open G, thinking about Charley Patton or Son House and the likes... Keywords: accoustic blues; Delta blues; Open G; guitar Downloads: 393 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Sam Collins - "Jail House Blues" Mono, mp3, ripped from the original 78 and beautifully remastered. Keywords: delta blues; Sam Colins; public domain Downloads: 2,386 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | God Rock Radio #6 - Jack Garcia & Rev. Hal Shaw Our exploration of Music & Spirtuality continues. On this adventure we journey through the Mississippi Delta into the very heart & soul of The Blues. This musical mixture of the sacred & profane is like moonshine for the mind. Special guests Producer/Musician Roman Klun and Blues drummer Alex Tisch. Keywords: Blues; Delta Blues; God; Rock; Radio; Blues Roots Downloads: 53 |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | VERMAPYRE TAMPA - VERMAPYRE VERMAPYRE TAMPA Interview Keywords: VERMAPYRE; LLN; LES LEGIONS NOIRES; ZOUO; DELTA BLUES Downloads: 66 |  |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Geeshie Wiley-Last Kind Words - Geeshie Wiley Recorded circa March 1930 in Grafton, Wisconsin. Don Kent has described "Last Kind Words" as "one of the most imginatively constructed guitar arrangments of its era...." Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm Downloads: 26,265 Average rating: (8 reviews) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Tommy Johnson-Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson Recorded on August 31, 1928 in Memphis, Tennessee. Tommy Johnson was a contemporary of Charlie Patton and it is believed that he, along with other blues musicians from the Mississippi Delta area, exchanged ideas and tunes with Patton. "Canned Heat" referred to any one of a number of concoctions based on alcohol found in shoe polish, cooking fuel, etc., which it is believed Johnson had a liking for. Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm Downloads: 20,696 Average rating: (2 reviews) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | KIL010 - Ryan Patrick - Subsidized Living - Ryan Patrick Raw acoustic lo-fi blues from Canada, in two words... cool stuff! Ryan Patrick's debut on Kill Mommy Records is a mix of anger, madness and screaming guitars, for your ears' pleasure. What this guy does should be an inspiration for lots of people out there: just pick your guitar, find a mike, turn on your pc and scream it the fuck out! This album will let you sing and scream the words of Ryan Patrick, a real bluesman in a fake world! "I'm A Schizo", "They Picked My Pocket", "It's Crazy Being Cra... Keywords: blues; lo-fi; acoustic; delta blues; slide blues Downloads: 352 |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Robert Johnson Birthplace Marker Hazelhurst Ms - Randy Meadows The Marker in Hazelhurst Ms., celebrating the birthplace of Robert Johnson 1911. Crystal Springs, Ms. Robert Johnson Blues Museum. Keywords: Robert Johnson Mississippi delta blues hazelhurst birthplace museum Downloads: 111 |  |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Skip James - I'm So Glad skip james i'm so glad Keywords: skip james; i'm so glad; delta blues Downloads: 211 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Hambone Willie Newburn - "Roll And Tumble Blues" Ripped from the original 78 (mono). Beautifully remastered! Keywords: opensource audio; blues; delta blues; roots; 78; mono Downloads: 1,118 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Son House´s Blues - Frumpy Ballbreaker my own very modest effort on Son House´s famous 1930 record "My Black Mama". Sounds funny to some people but I actually enjoy this hypnotic riff. Recorded Feb. 4th 2007. Have never touched an accoustic guitar since. Keywords: Delta blues; pre war blues; blues; accoustic blues; Son House Downloads: 684 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Pony Blues Mike Cheapfeet Dixon - Charlie Patton Arr. by Mike Dixon Charlie Patton's seminal Delta Blues classic performed by Mike Cheapfeet Dixon, recorded March 2013.This is an 'E Position' blues tune, tuned way down to 'C' standard tuning. Keywords: Cheapfeet; Mike Cheapfeet Dixon; Acoustic Blues; Delta Blues; Charlie Patton Downloads: 25 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Charley Patton-Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues - Charley Patton Recorded on June 14, 1929 in Richmond, Indiana. This recording was originally released credited to The Masked Marvel. If listeners could guess that it was Charley Patton, they would win a free record. Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm Downloads: 11,828 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Bertha Lee w. Charley Patton-Mind Reader Blues - Bertha Lee w. Charley Patton Recorded on January 31, 1934 in New York City. This tune, along with "Yellow Bee," was recorded at Patton's last recording session. He died two months later. Bertha Lee was Patton's common-law wife at the time. Lee appears to be lecturing Patton, who was an inveterate womanizer, with her sultry voice. In the fourth verse Lee sings: "I remember a day when I were livin' at Lula town, I remember a day when I were livin' at Lula town, my man did so many wrong things 'til I had to leave the town." Le... Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm Downloads: 16,333 Average rating: (4 reviews) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Geeshie Wiley-Skinny Legs Blues - Geeshie Wiley Recorded circa March 1930 in Grafton, Wisconsin. Don Kent says: "If Geeshie Wiley did not exist, she could not be invented: her scope and creativity dwarfs most blues artists. She seems to represent the moment when black secular music was coalescing into blues." Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm Downloads: 14,037 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Garfield Akers & Joe Calicott-Cottonfield Blues Part Two - Garfield Akers & Joe Calicott See entry for "Cottonfield Blues Part One." Because of the limited capacity of the discs which were used for recording in this era, tunes that exceeded a little over three minutes often were continued on the flip side of a 78rpm record. Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm Downloads: 6,735 Average rating: (2 reviews) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Garfield Akers & Joe Calicott-Cottonfield Blues Part One - Garfield Akers & Joe Calicott Recorded circa September 23, 1929. Garfield Akers on vocals and lead guitar, Joe Calicott on second guitar. Don Kent claims that "[o]nly a handful of guitar duets in all blues match the incredible drive, intricate rhythms and ferocious intensity" of this recording. See also "Cottonfield Blues Part Two." Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm Downloads: 10,569 Average rating: (3 reviews) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Son House-My Black Mama Part One - Son House Recorded in June 1930 in Grafton, Wisconsin. These recording sessions included Charley Patton, Willie Brown and Louise Johnson who all drove up to Wisconsin together from Mississippi. This tune made a deep impression on a young Robert Johnson, who was reportedly mentored somewhat by House; Johnson later recorded this tune as "Walkin' Blues." John Lee Hooker likewise did his own version in 1949 called "Burnin' Hell," based on the lines from the third verse: "Yeah, ain't no heaven, ain't no burnin... Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm Downloads: 28,783 Average rating: (5 reviews) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Charley Patton-A Spoonful Blues - Charley Patton This was recorded on June 14, 1929 in Richmond, Indiana. Dick Spottswood in "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton" describes it as "[p]robably a cocaine song with ambiguous sexual overtones...." Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm Downloads: 20,218 Average rating: (4 reviews) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Bertha Lee w. Charley Patton-Yellow Bee - Bertha Lee w. Charley Patton Recorded on January 31, 1934 in New York City. This tune was originally made popular by Memphis Minnie. The tune is clearly sexual in nature, and from Patton's asides during the tune, it appears that Patton is certainly enjoying Lee's come on. It is thought that Patton and Lee recorded several other tunes during this last recording session. See the notes to "Mind Reader Blues." However, if they did, they are lost and haven't been heard...by anyone still alive that is... Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm Downloads: 8,854 Average rating: (2 reviews) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Immara - Laying Tricks - Immara 1. Fire Flies 2. Root Work Ain't Never Been Easy 3. A Cross On The Man 4. From The Corner Of Greene Street 5. Peace Water 6. Drive Them Demons Out 7. No More Candles No More Light Please check out the new website for more downloads and other stuff. http://immara.webege.com/ Keywords: Immara; Noise; Noise Music; Experimental; Avant-Garde; Art Music; Psychedelic; Ambient; Glitch; Meditation; Hoodoo; Delta Blues Downloads: 3 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Dirty Mac Blues Band at Chilihead BBQ 5-13-11 - The Dirty Mac Blues Band Live 2 hour and 40 min show at the Chilihead BBQ Co. in West Bridgewater,MA Keywords: blues; dirty; simple; raw; Delta Blues; Traditional Music; original; Roots Music; Americana Downloads: 23 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Live at Bunky's Breakfast October 5, 2006 - Larry Heyl During The Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival formerly known as King Biscuit Hairy Larry and Rhode Island Red play true acoustic music at Bunky's Breakfast on Cherry Street. These songs were recorded on October 5, 2006 and feature Hairy Larry and Rhode Island Red both solo and as a duo. Both musicians play guitar and sing. Additionally Rhode Island Red plays kazoo and Hairy Larry plays harmonica... Keywords: acoustic; music; hairy larry; rhode island red; jug band; delta blues; rockabilly; ragtime Downloads: 1,082 |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Gayle Dean Wardlow - The INTERVIEW- Aug 2012 - RSKKZ Randy Meadows Gayle Dean Wardlow,- 6 part Interview with Delta Blues Music Historian. Part ONE - Hayes McMullan and Willie Moore with Elizabeth Introduction PART TWO - Record Collecting Beginnings Part THREE Ishmon Bracey and Tommy Johnson Part Four- Dockery Farms and Charley Patton Part FIVE - Willie Moore -Willie Brown -Skip James PART SIX - Robert Johnson ⢠BONUS- Part One A/ Hayes McMullan- Gonna Move to KC Part SEVEN-(BONUS)- Robert Johnson Recording Sessions and Death Certificate RSKKZ Randy Meadows ... Keywords: Delta Blues Music History Reasearch Gayle Dean Wardlow RSKKZ Randy Meadows Downloads: 31 |  |
![[etree]](/images/mediatype_etree.gif) | Hairy Larry Live at Bunkys Breakfast, Helena Arkansas on 2006-10-05 - Hairy Larry Hairy Larry and Rhode Island Red Live at Bunky's Breakfast October 5, 2006 Bunky's Breakfast is on Cherry Street in Helena Arkansas within the festival grounds of the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival informally known as The Biscuit. We played Thursday, Friday, and Saturday during the festival true acoustic music for the breakfaast crowd. This is the Thursday morning show. Recorded mono with a Superlux HM-8C in cardiod position right in front of the stage... Keywords: rockabilly; delta blues; jug band; ragtime; guitar; harmonica; kazoo; music; acoustic Downloads: 7,701 |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | First Blues song heard by WC Handy in 1903 - Randy Meadows Im Going Where the Southern Cross the Dog. African American composer W. C. Handy wrote in his autobiography of the experience of sleeping on a train traveling through (or stopping at the station of) Tutwiler, Mississippi around 1903, and being awakened by: ... a lean, loose-jointed Negro [who] had commenced plucking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes... Keywords: ms delta blues wc handy where the southern cross the dog hayes mcmullman Downloads: 582 |  |