Delta Piedmont Style Blues Mixes

I have a lovely set I do on Monday Nights in Second Life called the Delta Piedmont Style Blues Mixes… I sit down and sift thru the songs of Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Skip James and more to put together an authentic mix of tunes that show us the foundation that all blues and rock started from.

What is Piedmont and Delta Blues you might ask?

From Wikipedia, Piedmont blues (also known as East Coast, or Southeastern blues) refers primarily to a guitar style, the Piedmont fingerstyle, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern[1] supports a syncopated melody using the treble strings generally picked with the fore-finger, occasionally others.[2] The result is comparable in sound to ragtime or stride piano styles.

Robert Johnson

From Wikipedia, Delta Blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues music. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, a region of the United States stretching from Memphis, Tennessee, in the north to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the south and from Helena, Arkansas, in the west to the Yazoo River in the east. The Mississippi Delta is famous for its fertile soil and for its poverty. Delta blues is regarded as a regional variant of country blues. Guitar and harmonica are its dominant instruments; slide guitar (usually played on a steel guitar) is a hallmark of the style. Vocal styles in Delta blues.

Here is my Mix of Delta and Piedmont Blues by Original and Cover Artist.. If you enjoy the mix please comment on my blog.. Thanks

  1. Mississippi Fred McDowell – Levee Camp Blues
  2. Eric Clapton – Malted Milk
  3. Peter Green – Drunken Hearted Man
  4. Bonnie Raitt – Love in Vain
  5. Skip James – Everybody’s Leaving Here
  6. Buddy Guy – Louise Mcghee
  7. Bob Long – Dead Shrimp Blues
  8. Son House – Death Letter Blues
  9. Rory Block – Downhearted Blues
  10. Muddy Waters – Kind Hearted Woman
  11. Guy Davis – Dust My Broom
  12. Mick Martin – Broke Down Engine
  13. Brownie Mcghee – Betty and Dupree
  14. Eilen Jewell – Nothing in Rambling
  15. Corey Harris and Keb Mo – Sweet Home Chicago
  16. John Mooney – Grinnin’ in your Face
  17. Robert Johnson – Phonograph Blues
  18. Son House – Preachin Blues
  19. Peter Green – I’m A Steady Rollin Man
  20. Eric Clapton – From Four until Late
  21. Bob Long – Little Queen of Spades
  22. Forrest City Joe – Stop Breaking Down
  23. Skip James – Catfish Blues
  24. Robert Johnson – Honeymoon Blues
  25. Ry Cooder – President Kennedy
  26. Muddy Waters – Walking Blues
  27. John Mooney – Pearline
  28. Bill Ellis, Eleanor Ellis – John The Revelator
  29. Forrest City Joe – Levee Camp Reminiscence
  30. Alvin Youngblood Hart – Motherless Child
  31. Sleepy John Estes – Government Money
  32. Rory Block – Shetland Pony Blues
  33. Moreland & Arbuckle – Shake it and Break it
  34. Dan Phelps – Pony Blues
  35. Muddy Waters – Mississippi Delta Blues
  36. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Baby I knocked on your Door
  37. Tommy McClennan – You Can’t Ready my Mind
  38. Rory Block – Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
  39. Cephas & Wiggins – Special Rider
  40. Skip James – Look Down the Road
  41. Pink Anderson – I got a Woman ‘Cross Town
  42. Floyd ‘Dipper Boy’ Council – Working Man Blues

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