Muddy Waters Folk Singer

There are a few greats scattered around the south, including Bessie who I think is fron TN. I have three of her boxed sets. Great stuff, but very poor recordings. That is the sad part, the music was great before the technology was. I use the word FEW in a relative sense, because Mississippi is the source and mother lode of the blues. And even within the state of Ms, it is concentrated in the delta. I went to the Blues Museum in Clarksdale, MS and was amazed at the number of musicians from that state. I mean big time people. Blues, Country, soul/R&B, rock&roll, Jazz, Gospel even Classical. Mississppi punches well above it's weight when it comes to music. There are greats all over, but the sheer concentration of the numbers is what sets Mississippi apart.

BTW, I disagree that the delta blues is a subset. It is the original, the source therefore it cannot be a subset. All that it spawned can be called subsets. The Delta blues is just the blues. Texas / louisiana ,Chicago, The Carolinas may be called subsets. I don't list memphis because it is where the Delta starts.

I hope you never go to Mississippi and say that. :)

Actually the roots of the blues originated and evolved during slavery in the old South through the spirtuals. I find much of Delta Blues, which I really love btw, reaches and speaks about pretty much all aspects of the human condition including lust, humor, despair, longing, joy, jeolousy, revenge, hate and hope. Did I leave anything out? I'm sure plenty and the blanks can be filled in with pretty much any adjective describing the human condition which these people endured. The point being it is folk storytelling to music by a people oppressed over a long period of time and a means to let it out without verbally complaining of the conditions which would have surely brought added pain and punishment.