* Hatch, David and Stephen Millward, ( 1987 ), From Blues to Rock: an Analytical History of Pop Music, Manchester University Press, ISBN 0-7190-1489-1

Two songs are noteworthy: " Re-Enlistment Blues " and " From Here to Eternity ", by Robert Wells and Fred Karger.

He appeared with his wife, Joanne Woodward, in the feature films The Long, Hot Summer ( 1958 ), Rally ' Round the Flag, Boys !, ( 1958 ), From the Terrace ( 1960 ), Paris Blues ( 1961 ), A New Kind of Love ( 1963 ), Winning ( 1969 ), WUSA ( 1970 ), The Drowning Pool ( 1975 ), Harry & Son ( 1984 ), and Mr. and Mrs. Bridge ( 1990 ).

From 1914, the Raineys were billed as Rainey and Rainey, Assassinators of the Blues.

The journalist Tony Russell, in his book The Blues – From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray, stated " The vivacious rhumba-rhythmed piano blues and choked singing typical of Fess were too weird to sell millions of records ; he had to be content with siring musical offspring who were simple enough to manage that, like Fats Domino or Huey " Piano " Smith.

* William Ferris ; Blues From The Delta Da Capo Press ; Revised edition ( 1988 ) ISBN 0-306-80327-5 ISBN 978-0306803277

* From Steve Earle's musical tribute to Townes Van Zandt, " Ft. Worth Blues ":

From a musicological perspective both Spain's " Bandido " and France's " White and Black Blues " can be said to be the first entries to signal a new trend at Eurovision, with both songs fusing contemporary dance music with ethnic influences, from flamenco and calypso respectively.

From 1969 to 2000 it was known as the Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Song, from 1962 to 1968 it was known as Best Rhythm & Blues Recording, and from 1959-1961 as Best Rhythm & Blues Performance.

* From 1967 to 1968 the award was known as Best Rhythm & Blues Group Performance, Vocal or Instrumental

* William Ferris ; Blues From The Delta Da Capo Press ; Revised edition ( 1988 ) ISBN 0-306-80327-5 ISBN 978-0306803277

** Mike Post ( composer ) for " The Theme From Hill Street Blues "

From 1995 to 1997 he was an assistant coach for the St. Louis Blues.

From 1971 to 1973 Mitchell performed with John Mayall, appearing on Jazz Blues Fusion and subsequent albums.

* Blues Alley ( From 1965 )-Georgetown-jazz, blues

The Brides were the only group in the funk organization to receive a Rhythm and Blues Award in 1981 for Never Buy Texas From A Cowboy.

* William Ferris ; Blues From The Delta, Da Capo Press ; revised edition ( 1988 ).

* Ferris, William ; Blues From The Delta Da Capo Press ; Revised edition ( 1988 ) ISBN 0-306-80327-5 ISBN 978-0306803277

From 2012, this category will merge with the Best Contemporary Blues Album category to form the new Best Blues Album category.

From 2012, this category will merge with the Best Traditional Blues Album category to form the new Best Blues Album category.

While recovering from the stroke and heart attack, Diddley came back to his home town of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007 for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the National Blues Trail stating that he was " acclaimed as a founder of rock and roll.

Bo Diddley was honored by the Mississippi Blues Commission with a Mississippi Blues Trail historic marker placed in McComb, his birthplace, in recognition of his enormous contribution to the development of the blues in Mississippi.

Category: Mississippi Blues Trail

Category: Blues musicians from Mississippi

Several annual music festivals take place in Davenport, including the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, The Mississippi Valley Fair, and the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival.

Blues and folk players refer to the instrument with a range of less-common names including: hand reed, Mississippi saxophone, licking stick, pocket sax, toe pickle, tin sandwich, ten-holed tin-can tongue twister, and French Harp.

Category: Blues musicians from Mississippi

Category: Mississippi Blues Trail

In 1963, a folk musicologist, Tom Hoskins, supervised by Richard Spottswood, was able to locate Hurt near Avalon, Mississippi using the lyrics of " Avalon Blues ":

Blues music, rooted in the work songs and spirituals of slavery and influenced greatly by West African musical traditions, was first played by blacks, and later by some whites, in the Mississippi Delta region of the United States around the time of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Blues legend Muddy Waters was also very influential, particularly in developing the electric Chicago blues slide guitar from the acoustic Mississippi Delta slide guitar.

* " Clarksdale Moan " / " Mississippi County Farm Blues " ( one known copy )

They have performed at many charity events and raised $ 1 million for the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

The former is the historic highway north to Chicago via Cairo, Illinois, while the latter roughly parallels the Mississippi River for most of its course and crosses the Mississippi Delta region to the south, with the Delta also legendary for Blues music.

Category: Blues musicians from Mississippi

Category: Mississippi Blues Trail

Category: Blues musicians from Mississippi

First is Robert Johnson's " Traveling Riverside Blues ", one of the best-known examples of Delta blues slide guitar.

* Delta Blues ( 1941 – 1942 ) Smithsonian 31028

* Son House-The Real Delta Blues ( 1964-65 Recordings ) Blue Goose Records 2016

* Son House & The Great Delta Blues Singers ( With Willie Brown ,) Document Cd 5002

* Son House-Father Of The Delta Blues: Complete 1965 Sony / Legacy Cd 48867

* Delta Blues and Spirituals ( 1995 )

* Delta Blues ( 1941 – 1942 ) ( 2003 ) Biograph Cd 118

In 2000, the MirrorMundo foundation produced a documentary film called Delta Blues about the problems arising from the drying up of the sea.

Moorhead is where " The Southern crosses the Dog " a fabled location in Delta Blues music.

Delta Blues legend and master of the bottleneck guitar Mississippi Fred McDowell was born here before moving to Mississippi.

Freddie Spruell is reckoned to be the first Delta blues artist to record, as he waxed " Milk Cow Blues " in Chicago in June 1926.

However, in Delta Blues and other rural or folk style blues women rarely recorded the blues.

In Delta Blues often female performers had some romantic connection to more notable male delta blues performers ; such as Geeshie Wiley attached to Papa Charlie McCoy.

Many Delta Blues artists moved to Detroit and Chicago such as Big Joe Williams creating a pop influenced city blues style, however, this was displaced by the new Chicago blues sound in the early 1950s pioneered by Delta Bluesmen, Muddy Waters, Howlin ' Wolf and Little Walter, harking back to a more delta influenced, yet electrified sound.

This Delta style blues folk music also inspired the creation of British Skiffle music, from which eventually came the persons and bands of the British Invasion, while simultaneously influencing British Blues which led to the birth of early hard rock and heavy metal.

* Delta Blues Museum, in Clarksdale, Mississippi

* King of the Delta Blues Singers, an album by Robert Johnson