Word: delta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sure, I could know the history of the blues. I could tell you that it grew out of sharecroppers' songs in the Mississippi Delta, and that the patron saint of those gritty Delta blues is guitar virtuoso John Lee Hooker. I could tell you how the blues followed the sharecroppers as they looked for jobs up North, first in Memphis, where the blues would fuse with country music to create rock and roll, and then up to Chicago, where it would settle into a pulsing rhythm and produce the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf...
...really want to understand the blues, the first thing you have to learn is that the music is not about suffering. Just listen to it. From the Delta to Chicago, the blues is the sort of thing you dance to: eight bar repetitions in four-four time with accents on the off-beats. It's the same basic structure you find in everything from square dance music to modern dance mixes. If you're not moving your feet, you're at least tapping your fingers. And you can't find a live blues recording without the sounds of people...
...Averell '02 was arrested at Logan for sneaking onto a plane and hiding in the bathroom. According to his lawyer, Delta gave his seat away when the flight was not supposed to take off for another
...Delta did not treat the incident as minor last Wednesday night, said Noah J. Snyder '02, who was also on the flight...
Snyder said he was surprised at the time that Delta took such precautions...