Compilation

Essential Delta Blues Compilation

Looking at the history and development of popular music in the twentieth century, the blues holds a particularly

influential place as it was to become the key root of so many other musical forms. Delta Blues was a variant of

Country Blues. It was based in the Mississippi Delta, which was a specific area of North West Mississippi, running

some 200 miles south from Memphis. Its land was very fertile, but for most of its working population it remained an

impoverished area, and singing the blues became one of the very few ways that musicians could earn a few extra

dollars away from the fields.