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[Gateway To The Blues @TunicaBlues]

“W.C. Handy created sequences — verse, chorus, et cetera. But the old timers didn’t play that way. John Lee Hooker, he didn’t play by bars, he didn’t count — he just made a change whenever he felt like it. He didn’t necessarily rhyme all his words, neither.”
- Little Milton

[Gateway To The Blues @TunicaBlues]

Alongside this rare look into how the #MississippiDelta still continues to attract diehard #blues fans, there’s a few #funfacts in here too:

https://t.co/Il24P3rRZR

[Gateway To The Blues @TunicaBlues]

I’ve started and deleted 4 tweets over this dang video, but words just can’t describe it.
Let’s just agree that if you love #blues and you love #BBKing and you love getting excited,
YOU’LL LOVE THIS:

https://t.co/H6pBubFTGn

[Blues Music @HearTheBlues]

#SeahawksCelly is a shoo-in for the #BudLightCelly this week!

[Gateway To The Blues @TunicaBlues]

Check out the deep heart full of #blues cut into the grooves of Frank Frost’s Janie On My Mind, y’all!
I promise you- after listening to this, Janie is going to be on your mind too:

https://t.co/vOBhyVjmTU

[Gateway To The Blues @TunicaBlues]

WOW!
Jimmy Rogers from Ruleville Mississippi:
•Guitarist in Muddy Waters’ first band (with Little Walter)
•Guitarist in Howlin’ Wolf’s band
• #Blues Hall Of Fame inductee
• Chess Records recording artist
• Colleague of Snooky Pryor and Robert Lockwood Jr

[Gateway To The Blues @TunicaBlues]

💙
Sleepy John Estes from Ripley, Tennessee & Hammie Nixon from Brownsville, Tennessee doing Drop Down Mama from 1935 for you, right here:

https://t.co/2GAsEJVLKu

[BLUES addict @BluesT2015]

【Blues Short video】
Crossroads 2010 - Live
#EricClapton #BBKing

[Gateway To The Blues @TunicaBlues]

Sonny Boy Williamson 3 asks 1 question and you gotta hear it 2 believe it:
Have You Ever Been In Love?

https://t.co/UnZqU0ELr2

[Gateway To The Blues @TunicaBlues]

When you done got lonesome & worried, don’t know what to do.
Thinking about your loved ones.
People... That you want to be nice to you...
You been nice to them but they ain’t... You’re deceived by them.
Now you got the #blues.
- Son House

https://t.co/y35MIonyYW

[Gateway To The Blues @TunicaBlues]

If I wasn’t the guy tweeting this tweet I’m telling you I would like it and retweet it!!!

My Home Is In The Delta
by Muddy Waters:

https://t.co/pAwD9RQsXL

[Gateway To The Blues @TunicaBlues]

The distance from Rolling Fork, Mississippi to Chicago, Illinois is 644.84 miles as the crow flies.
Or 15 songs if you’re Muddy Waters, Master Of The #Blues:

https://t.co/oyj3KEyqd0

[Gateway To The Blues @TunicaBlues]

I promise you!
You’ll enjoy spending these six minutes with #BBKing onstage in 🇫🇷 doing a modern take on Blind Lemon Jefferson’s 1928 classic, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean:

https://t.co/OcMBEEMQdI

[Gibson @gibsonguitar]

SJ-200 in Vintage Sunburst #gibson

[Gateway To The Blues @TunicaBlues]

Play. That. HARP!
DANG, Sonnyboy Williamson’s Keep It To Yourself is so good that I just had to share it!

https://t.co/WC6GvlsWGX

[TheBluesBlogger @TheBluesBlogger]

"I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job."

Happy 75th birthday to #guitar virtuoso Jeff Beck - Born #OnThisDay June 24, 1944. One of my favorite guitar players...

Here’s @jeffbeckmusic with @TheRealBuddyGuy.

[Killer Blues @_killerblues]

Remembering the one and only Lonnie Johnson - who passed away on this day in 1970 and was a Killer Blues headstone recipient in 2015 - Mr. Johnson is laid to rest at White Chapel Memorial Park Cemetery in #Pennsylvania! #blues #music #nonprofit

[Blues Magazine @BluesMagazine]

In Memoriam | Dr. John // Dr John, legendary New Orleans Musician dies at 77
#DrJohn #RIP #InMemoriam https://t.co/vbIJbuTE60

[Gateway To The Blues @TunicaBlues]

You might not know that the photo of Robert Johnson that inspired this painting was taken at Hooks Brothers Studio on #BealeStreet in Memphis back in 1936: