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Top blues songs to emerge out of the Mississippi Delta


12:26 pm UTC Feb. 17, 2021
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss.
Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
JACKSON, Miss. Blues is inspired by place the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once worked by day; by the triumphs and struggles in life; by love found and love lost. 
And no place has produced more influential American bluesmen and women than the Mississippi Delta. So it s only fitting to celebrate some of the most noted musicians who came from Mississippi or whose ties to the genre were formed here. ....

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Top blues songs to emerge out of the Mississippi Delta


Lici Beveridge, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
Published
8:54 pm UTC Feb. 8, 2021
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss.
Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
JACKSON, Miss. Blues is inspired by place the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once worked by day; by the triumphs and struggles in life; by love found and love lost.  ....

New York , United States , Cotton Patch , All Right , Hill Country , Louisiana State Penitentiary , Holly Springs , Muddy Waters , John Lee Curtis Williamson , Eric Shelton , Sonny Boy Williamson , Mississippian Elvis Presley , Jarekus Singleton , John Henry , John Lomax , Jimi Hendrix , Nicki Minaj , Skip James , Big Joe Williams , Barbara Mandrell , Elmore Jame , Willie Dixon , Eric Clapton , Alan Lomax , Etta James , Albert King ,