@Songfacts : An interesting experiment: Listen to Robert Johnson’s original recording of “Traveling Riverside Blues”. Then listen to Led Zeppelin’s version. Led Zep’s is far, far away from the original and includes lines from so many Delta blues song as to leave yer head spinning.
@Delta-Slider : Ragtime Ralph has always shared his music freely. Strictly oldtime blues, mostly fingerpicking and a little bit of very primitive stuff. He doesn’t do much singing but when he does it is a low, growl.
@Carlos Del Junco : : Born in Havana, Cuba, del Junco (loosely translated “of the reeds”) immigrated with his family at the age of one. He bent his first note on a harmonica when he was fourteen, making his debut with his high school math teacher at a student talent night.
@YouTube : Mattie Doyle, (who probably married a man with the surname of Delaney in her youth), was born in the community of Tchula, MS. on the Northern side of the Delta.
- Blind Gary Davis - Goin’ to Sit Down on the Banks of the River2.58
- Ragtime Ralph - Fraser River Delta Blues3.20
- Carlos Del Junco - Movin’ Down The River Rhine3.58
- Mattie Delaney - Tallahatchie River Blues2.45
- Freddie King - Woman Across The River3.46
- Charlie Musselwhite - Blues Up The River2.34
- Dinah Washington - Cry Me A River2.29
- Louis Armstrong - Up A Lazy River3.10
- Jazz Crusaders - Moon River4.40
- Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder - If The River Was Whiskey2.42
- Bo Diddley - Old Man River2.24
- Mickey Baker - River Boat2.33
- Ray Charles - I’m Going Down to the River3.03
- Roscoe Holcomb - Boat’s up the River3.49
- Blind Willie McTell - I Got to Cross the River Jordan4.36
- Leon Russell - Watching The River Flow3.40
- Aretha Franklin - River’s Invitation2.38
- Janis Joplin - River Jordan3.51
- Fred McDowell - Goin’ Down To The River8.21
- Robert Johnson - Traveling Riverside Blues2.43
@Charlie Musselwhite : “Blues is tough,” Charlie Musselwhite explains. He could just as easily be talking about himself. Described by the San Jose Mercury News as, “the second coming of Led Zeppelin, with Tom Waits on vocals,” Charlie and his band embody the direct and timeless power of the blues.
@allmusic : Mickey Baker originally aspired to be a jazz musician, but turned to calypso, mambo, and then R&B, where the most work could be found.
@The Magazine for Traditional Music throughout the world : : Body ravaged through years of work in the coal mines, farming, and such, Holcomb would sit on his porch, pick his guitar or pluck a banjo, singing the songs of his surroundings in such a fashion that totally clashed with the coming tide of modernism.
@Doctor Boom : In the spoken introduction to the Capital Blues Collection I Don’t Play No Rock ‘N’ Roll Mississippi Fred Mc Dowell says, ” My type of blues, I play it with a bottleneck, you understand, see - rib what come out of a steak.” Mississippi Fred later switched to a glass bottleneck because “it get’s more clear sound out of it.”
to be continued… probably
