Country Blues
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Back to the Blues StylesThe Country Blues is a style of blues that is largely centered around the acoustic guitar and a folk sound. It encircles a whole range of different blues styles. For example, Delta Blues Master Charley Patton played a distinctly delta style, but his sound was also Country Blues. It could be said that Country Blues could be heard in the Texas Blues style of Blind Lemon Jefferson, as well as in Piedmont Blues style 1500 miles away. The Folk Songster Mississippi John Hurt, netled in Avalon, Mississippi could also have been categorized within the Country Blues genre. It was Country Blues musicians that migrated from rural areas who began the Blues' energetic evolution in Chicago to the now-famous electric style.