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Mississippi Blues

Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2000
Track listing: Disc One: Mississippi Bottom Blues- Kid Bailey/ Little Girl In Rome- Otto Virgial/ Bad Notion Blues- Otto Virgial/ Hittin

Various: Mississippi Blues

by Derek Taylor
December 1, 2000

The Mississippi Delta is commonly revered as the American birthplace of the Blues, both figuratively and factually. The porous soil of the regions vast cotton fields and the hot humidity of the Mississippi sky were catalytic ingredients that sparked an alchemical reaction between the poverty and repression felt by Southern Blacks and their more ancient musical ...