As most of the Delta blues guitarists of the 1950s saw their ... the turn of a card or the roll of the dice. In the 1920s and 1930s small casinos like the Moon Lake Club in Lula, Mississippi ...

Johnson was a pioneer of the Delta blues movement in the early 1930s, performing on the streets of southern towns of Mississippi and Arkansas. Johnson followed in the footsteps of other notable ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...

Chicago played a key role in the development of the urban blues of the 1930s. Musicians who had left ... none more potent than the myth that Delta bluesman Robert Johnson, who died aged 27 ...

He began singing in church as a child and inspired by the sounds of the Delta Blues, spent his teenage years learning to play harmonica and guitar. In the 1930s, he was playing harmonica on tours ...