Best Delta Influenced
"Country Blues" is a 1965 studio album by American blues musician John Hammond Jr., released by Vanguard Records. The album consists entirely of solo acoustic performances, featuring Hammond on vocals, guitar, and harmonica. It is dedicated to traditional rural blues styles of the American South, co...
Between Midnight and Day is the debut studio album by American blues musician and guitarist Corey Harris, released in 1995 through Alligator Records. The album is primarily acoustic and heavily rooted in traditional Delta blues, featuring Harris's slide guitar work and vocal performances. It establi...
Last Night's Dream is an album by American blues guitarist and vocalist Johnny Shines, released during his later career revitalization. Shines was closely associated with legendary musician Robert Johnson in the 1930s, and this record finds him interpreting the intricate fingerpicking Delta blues st...
Big Road Blues is an album by American blues singer and guitarist K.C. Douglas, whose music connected rural Southern traditions with the postwar blues scene of the San Francisco Bay Area. Douglas was born in Texas and became known for an acoustic, rhythmically direct style influenced by Tommy Johnso...
So Many Roads is a 1965 electric and acoustic blues album by American musician John Hammond Jr., released on Vanguard Records. The album reflects the mid-twentieth-century blues revival movement, during which Hammond popularized traditional country blues for new audiences. It features interpretation...
