How did the Blues Begin?
: How did the Blues Begin? The blues is a style of music that formed from the music brought to the United States by slaves. The slaves would sing to each other in the fields to make the work go faster. They would often sing about topics such as love, the unfairness of their situations, and other troubles they all shared and wanted to express. Later, African-American sharecroppers in the South would sing to express their feelings about many of the same topics their ancestors did. The blues style became a combination of field hollers, church music and work songs. Sharecroppers picking cotton The Mississippi Delta Blues : The Mississippi Delta Blues Where is the Mississippi Delta? What are the Delta Blues? The Delta Blues are thought to be the first kind of formalized blues. These songs were not written down but were passed along by word-of-mouth. Other musicians would change the words and some of the chords to make it their own. Typically, acoustic guitar and harmonica were the main inst
