Among the most famous Mississippi Delta blues artists are Charley Patton, Son House, Tommy Johnson, Skip James, Booker (“Bukka”) White, and Robert Johnson, most of whom recorded in the 1920s and ’30s. Several Chicago blues and other urban blues musicians, such as Muddy Waters, B.B. King, and Howlin’ Wolf, were born in the Mississippi Delta region and were influenced by these early artists.
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