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Overlooked Early Blues Artists
The early years of the blues, ranging from 1910 until 1950, marked the music's evolution from the rural country blues that were formed in the Mississippi Delta into the "citified" urban sound of the burgeoning Chicago blues scene. As the forebear to much of what would follow, the early blues era was brimming with talent like Charley Patton, Son House, and Robert Johnson, among many others. In the…

Early Blues Artists
These are the early artists that helped define the genre of the blues. Whether from the Mississippi Delta or the fields of Texas, each of the following artists contributed greatly to the music, whether through their instrumental skills (usually on the guitar) or vocal talents, and their early recordings and performances served to influence a generation of blues artists to follow. Whether you̵…