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There's Delta Blues, where the genre started as field songs of the slaves, and it spread from there.
The next most famous is Chicago Blues which probably has the most practitioners.
Chicago migrated down to St Louis, which was also a huge center for Jazz in the early 20th century.
And Texas Blues (Johnny Clyde Copeland for one).
 
All blues did not come from Black people, The Idea is a generalized narrative but there were blues songs from other areas and different styles of blues than the Delta, Nola, Greenville, Memphis Blues.

I lived in Greenwood, Ms for a while and used to ride My bike down the levee and go by the shacks and little open front cookers, where you could get a little REAL COOKIN for nothing if you were a poor white kid that sat and talked to the old black men sitting on the benches and old folding chairs with the toes cut out of their oxford military shoes and the socks sticking out. It was a different breed of

Three or four sitting around an old wire spool used as a table picking on an old nylon string guitar with a tin drum, Hohner Marine Band 1896 Harmonica ans sometimes some other instrument, Concertina, even a Squeeze Box.

As for The Outlaw who walks through jessies dreams, Sonny took Guitar lessons for while from Jerry Bridges at Nightown Studios In Golden Mississippi

He had a few of the prototypes of the Fender Telecasters that were done before Waylon settled on the final design. Jerry was a sessions guitarist and played for a lot of people he had a gold record from one of Paul Anka's songs. But he played Bass for the Waymores for years.

The Waymores went out on tour for a while with Shooter.

There were players out in the western states playing blues with a different style,

As for the Blues I heard as a kid on the levee, some of them were never recorded, or played on the radio for a good reason HEHEHEHEH.

I had a songbook from the 30 to 50s since I was about 20 years old that had a lot of the ones that never were never recorded in it.
 
Lotta time all over the South saw a lot of the real singers and workers who sang the songs, a lot of them were really Bawdy and never made anything but voice and paper.

I Saw hand built sawed shaved box guitars with wooden pegs, more strings, stretchin bars and slides. All kinds of thing work when there is no money to buy something.

Somewhere in the billions of files on the dozens of hard drives I have theres a 1920-40s compilation of songs written down on sheets of wrapping paper, freezer paper, scrap paper of all kinds, songs that never made wax. That is the real gold of the NOLA blues genre.

I also have some of the older broken heart, done me wrong songs from before there was a country named the USA in there.

Maybe one day I will come up on all of that drag it out and post a few, I made a DDDR of a lot of it and some recordings for a really good friend who was teaching his children the NOLA history But I have no idea if he still has it, He moved 1000 miles away and I haven't heard from him in five years.
 

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