View source for Delta blues

{{Infobox Music genre
|bgcolor=#0000E1
 |color=white
 |name=Delta Blues
 |stylistic_origins=[[Blues]]
 |cultural_origins=
 |instruments=[[Guitar]], [[Harmonica]]
 |popularity=
 |derivatives=[[Chicago blues]], [[Detroit blues]]
 |subgenrelist=
 |subgenres=
 |fusiongenres=
 |regional_scenes=
 |other_topics=

}}
The '''Delta blues''' is one of the earliest types of [[blues music]]. It started in the [[Mississippi Delta]] (a place in the [[United States|US]] that goes from [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] to [[Vicksburg, Mississippi|Mississippi]]). [[Guitar]] and [[harmonica]] are usually used to [[Musical instrument|play]] it.

== Beginning ==
Delta blues music was first played in the [[1920s]]. [[Tommy Johnson]] and [[Ishman Bracey]] were recorded by [[Victor Talking Machine Company|Victor]] in 1928. [[Robert Wilkins]] was first recorded by Victor in Memphis in 1928, and  [[Big Joe Williams]] and [[Garfield Akers]] were also recorded in Memphis in 1929 by [[Brunswick Records|Brunswick]]/[[Vocalion Records|Vocalion]].

==List of artists==
{{columns-start|num=2}}
*[[Ishman Bracey]]
*[[Willie Brown (musician)|Willie Brown]]
*[[R. L. Burnside]]
*[[Sam Chatmon]]
*[[Bob Cobb]]
*[[James Cotton]]
*[[Arthur Crudup]] 
*[[CeDell Davis]]
*[[David Honeyboy Edwards]]
*[[Earl Hooker]]
*[[John Lee Hooker]]
*[[Son House]]
*[[Mississippi John Hurt]]
*[[Skip James]]
*[[Robert Johnson (musician)|Robert Johnson]]
*[[Tommy Johnson (blues musician)|Tommy Johnson]]
*[[Blind Willie Johnson]]
*[[Junior Kimbrough]]
{{column}}
*[[Robert Lockwood, Jr.]]
*[[Robert Lowery (musician)|Robert Lowery]]
*[[Tommy McClennan]]
*[[Mississippi Fred McDowell]]
*[[Blind Willie McTell]]
*[[Charley Patton]]
*[[Paul Pena]]
*[[Pinetop Perkins]]
*[[Snooky Pryor]]
*[[Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)|Jimmie Rodgers]]
*[[Charles David Sharp]]
*[[Johnny Shines]]
*[[Sunnyland Slim]]
*[[Henry Sloan]]
*[[Willie "Big Eyes" Smith]]
*[[Hound Dog Taylor]]
*[[Chaz Van Gogh]]
*[[Muddy Waters]]
*[[Bukka White]]
*[[Big Joe Williams]]
*[[Howlin' Wolf]]
{{columns-end}}

== Other websites ==
*[http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/blues/ Trail of the Hellhound - Delta Blues in the lower Mississippi Valley] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205074737/http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/blues/ |date=2007-02-05 }}
*[http://www.mississippideltablues.org The Mississippi Delta Blues Society of Indianola] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060625163938/http://www.mississippideltablues.org/ |date=2006-06-25 }}
{{blues}}

[[Category:Blues music]]