African-American sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta and other parts of the South adopted the instrument and evolved blues music from spirituals and field hollers. Charley Patton, Robert ...

They are both very popular styles of music. Blues music can be played on instruments like the guitar, piano and harmonica. Singing is very important in blues music too. The words in blues songs ...

The post-war traditional jazz and folk revival movements produced the fertile ground for a new kind of blues music — entirely influenced by the authentic black blues of the USA, and, for the ...