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2. Robert Johnson (guitars) - Wikipedia

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   In a 1974 interview published in Living Blues magazine, Delta blues musician Houston Stackhouse stated that when he accompanied Robert Johnson to Spiers' music store in 1936, "he was totin’ his guitar on his shoulder, Gibson guitar what he had done been having". [5] The L-1 had originally been produced as an arch top between 1902 and 1926.

3. Delta blues - Wikipedia

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   Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues. It originated in the Mississippi Delta and is regarded as a regional variant of country blues . Guitar and harmonica are its dominant instruments; slide guitar is a hallmark of the style.

4. Robert Johnson - Wikipedia

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   This is the aspect of his music that most changed the Delta blues practice and is most retained in the blues guitar tradition. [103] This technique has been called a "boogie bass pattern" or "boogie shuffle" and is described as a "fifth–sixth [degrees of a major scale] oscillation above the root chord". [104]

5. Slide guitar - Wikipedia

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   The earliest Delta blues musicians were largely solo singer-guitarists. [7] W. C. Handy commented on the first time he heard slide guitar in 1903, when a blues player performed in a local train station: "As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularised by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect ...

6. Big Joe Williams - Wikipedia

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   Remaining funds raised for Williams's memorial were donated by the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund to the Delta Blues Museum in order to purchase one of the last guitars Williams used from his sister Mary May. The guitar purchased by the museum is a 12-string guitar that Williams used in his later days.

7. List of Delta blues musicians - Wikipedia

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   Early country blues and Delta blues guitarist and vocalist. [7] Willie Brown (August 6, 1900 – December 30, 1952). Guitarist, singer and songwriter. [8] R. L. Burnside (November 23, 1926, Oxford, Mississippi – September 1, 2005). Acoustic and electric North Mississippi hill country blues, Delta blues, and juke joint blues guitarist and ...