Below you will find example sentences with "delta blues". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Delta Blues in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 15
- Discovered as a combination around: blues
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 22.5 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 1 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "delta blues" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 22.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as bringing the delta blues to northern, examples of delta blues slide guitar, mississippi, style and music stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with niger delta, louis blues, delta development, louis blues, blues music and sky blues, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with delta blues
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues. (8 words)
The album The Father of Delta Blues – The Complete 1965 Sessions was the result. (14 words)
The (Mississippi) Delta blues was a rootsy sparse style with passionate vocals accompanied by slide guitar. (16 words)
Victoria’s interior Southern soundscape has range, drawing from country and pop, but it also reaches back, deep and far, through darkness—to muddy Mississippi Delta blues, yes, but also the dusty groans of the genre’s West African roots. (40 words)
Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, but he took the blues from a regional music style ( Delta blues ) with a limited audience to one of the dominant national forces in American music. (38 words)
His impact on these musicians—who contributed to and helped to define rock and roll and rock music—came from the compilation of his works released in 1961 by Columbia Records ( King of the Delta Blues Singers ). (37 words)
Example sentences (15)
Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, but he took the blues from a regional music style ( Delta blues ) with a limited audience to one of the dominant national forces in American music.
Although originating in the metropolis at the mouth of the Mississippi River, New Orleans blues, with its Afro-Caribbean rhythmic traits, is distinct from the sound of the Mississippi Delta blues.
Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues.
First is Robert Johnson 's "Traveling Riverside Blues", one of the best-known examples of Delta blues slide guitar.
His use of an electric guitar tied together the Delta blues with the emerging post-war electric blues.
Hooker, among other important blues musicians migrated from his home in Mississippi bringing the Delta blues to northern cities like Detroit.
Johnson is now recognized as a master of the blues, particularly of the Mississippi Delta blues style.
Lomax, p. 365. Musical style Johnson is considered a master of the blues, particularly of the Delta blues style.
Victoria’s interior Southern soundscape has range, drawing from country and pop, but it also reaches back, deep and far, through darkness—to muddy Mississippi Delta blues, yes, but also the dusty groans of the genre’s West African roots.
The jukebox is stocked with Delta blues and brass bands, ’60s soul, and a hint of jazz.
His impact on these musicians—who contributed to and helped to define rock and roll and rock music—came from the compilation of his works released in 1961 by Columbia Records ( King of the Delta Blues Singers ).
Hurt performed on the university and coffeehouse concert circuit with other Delta blues musicians brought out of retirement.
In 1961, the sleeve notes to the album King of the Delta Blues Singers included reminiscences of Don Law who had recorded Johnson in 1936.
The album The Father of Delta Blues – The Complete 1965 Sessions was the result.
The (Mississippi) Delta blues was a rootsy sparse style with passionate vocals accompanied by slide guitar.