One of the greatest finds on Secondlife has been the CC Loon Blues museum, conceived and created by avatar Chriscloud Loon, whose first life counterpart is a Romanian man living in Germany who tells me he did not search out the blues, they came to him. In the last 5 months, over 160 titles have been added to my ipod as a result of the historical information learned on this site. Pandora radio, with its access to the Music Genome Project, has proved a valuable, incredibly fun adjunct for listening to various blues styles. It links songs and artists to other similar titles, provides biographical links, and discographies.
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To see one of the early delta blues musicians, one who lived into the Sixties and even played the Fillmore Auditorium, see this video of Mississippi John Hurt: