Mrs. E's Collectibles presents the Home of The Best in Mississippi Delta Blues CDs and Recordings, featuring such artist as ; Robert Johnson, R.L. Burnside, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bukka White, and many others. Alan Lomax states that the blues tradition was considered to be a masculine discipline (although some of the first blues songs heard by whites were sung by 'lady' blues singers like Mamie Smith and Bessie Smith) and not many black women were to be found singing the blues in the juke-joints. The Southern prisons also contributed considerably to the blues tradition through work songs and the songs of death row and murder, prostitutes, the warden, the hot sun, and a hundred other privations. (Lomax) The prison road crews and work gangs where were many bluesmen found their songs, and where many other blacks simply became familiar with the same songs. The Charters Archive of Blues and Vernacular African American Music--- Samuel Charters has been documenting African American music for over 50 years, starting as a field recorder for Folkways Records in 1954.(Read More)
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