Additional Resources: Celebrating American Blues Music
- The Mississippi Delta
- Dockery Plantation, Dockery, Mississippi
- Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music, by Ted Gioia
- Sharecropping
- Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta, by Robert Palmer
- Juke Joint
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, by Ma Rainey (CD)
- Black Swan Records, Harlem, NYC
- Bessie Smith: The Complete Recordings, by Bessie Smith (CD)
- King of the Delta Blues, by Charlie Patton (CD)
- King of the Blues, by Blind Lemon Jefferson (CD)
- Father Of The Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions, by Son House (CD)
- Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson, by Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow
- The Complete Recordings, by Robert Johnson (CD box set)
- King Biscuit Time, by Sonny Boy Williamson (CD)
- Definitive Lead Belly, by Lead Belly (CD)
- Negro Prison Blues and Songs, compiled by Alan Lomax (CD)
- Complete Studio Recordings of Mississippi John Hurt, by Mississippi John Hurt (CD)
- Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters, by Robert Gordon
- I Am the Blues, by Willie Dixon (CD)
- Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf, by James Segrest
- The Chess Box: Muddy Waters Box Set, by Muddy Waters (CD)
- Howlin Wolf: The Chess Box, by Howlin’ Wolf (CD)
- Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country, by R. Crumb
- Complete Vanguard Recordings of Big Mama Thornton, by Big Mama Thornton (CD)
- The Land Where the Blues Began, by Alan Lomax
- Live In Cook County Jail, by B.B. King (CD)
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Netflix movie
- The Sky Is Crying: The History of Elmore James, by Elmore James (CD)
- Bessie, HBO TV film
- Whiskey & Wimmen: John Lee Hooker’s Finest, by John Lee Hooker (CD)
- Born Under A Bad Sign, by Albert King CD)
- Hoodoo Man Blues, by Junior Wells and Buddy Guy (CD)
- Etta James
- Martin Scorsese presents The Blues – A Musical Journey (DVD Box Set)
