In the scene where Delta Slim (Delroy Lindo) is playing harmonica, we had a blues legend, Bobby Rush [come in]. Serena called him the night before; he's 94 years old and was touring in Seattle.

Pappas Delta Blues Smokehouse in Plano, an upscale barbecue restaurant at the Dallas North Tollway and W. Parker Road, closed after service on April 4, 2024. The restaurant had been open in West ...

In the scene where Delta Slim (Delroy Lindo) is playing harmonica, we had a blues legend, Bobby Rush [come in]. Serena called him the night before; he’s 94 years old and was touring in Seattle.

Delgrès: where Delta blues meets Caribbean lament. Issued on: 05/10/2017 - 15:43. Play - 10:00 . ... He plays the Dobro, an acoustic guitar with a metal resonator built into its body.

There are a fair few ‘Old style’ Delta Blues players around at the moment, many of them ploughing the usual Delta Blues trough of the originals and a few taking slide and resonator/Dobro into ...

Writer-musician Gioia (Healing Songs, 2006, etc.) undertakes the daunting task of reconsidering the blues of the Mississippi Delta, musicological terrain well-plowed in several noteworthy books ...

Delta blues giants like Robert Johnson were victims, buffeted by the winds of racism, singing out mostly for personal solace. The story is undoubtedly romantic, but it just isn't true.

It’s agreed among all that from Memphis down to Vicksburg is the cradle of the Delta Blues Music, a genre of American root music that has left an indelible mark on country, jazz, rhythm and ...