Charley Patton

Charley Patton was an influential Delta blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter whose recordings helped shape the style’s sound and performance traditions.

Son House: Son House was an influential Delta blues singer and guitarist known for forceful vocals and slide guitar. House performed alongside Patton and later recalled the Delta music world they shared.
Delta blues: Delta blues is a regional style of blues associated with the Mississippi Delta and its musicians. Patton’s music is a foundational example of this regional style.
Mississippi Delta: The Mississippi Delta is a low-lying region in northwestern Mississippi between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. The region’s communities and musical circuits formed the setting for Patton’s career.
Mississippi Blues Trail: The Mississippi Blues Trail is a network of historical markers commemorating people and places in Mississippi blues history. Markers identify sites associated with Patton and the Delta blues community.
Willie Brown: Willie Brown was a Delta blues guitarist and singer associated with Son House and Charley Patton. Brown was among the musicians linked to Patton’s local performance circles.
Bottleneck guitar: Bottleneck guitar uses a hard slide on a fretting hand to create gliding pitches and sustained notes. Patton used slide techniques to give guitar lines a vocal, cutting quality.
Dockery Plantation: Dockery Plantation was a large cotton plantation in Sunflower County, Mississippi, with a community that fostered blues musicians. Patton lived and performed for years in the community where his music developed.
Delta blues revival: The Delta blues revival was a mid-twentieth-century resurgence of interest in older Mississippi blues musicians and recordings. Reissues and rediscovery brought Patton’s music to later audiences.
Tommy Johnson: Tommy Johnson was a Mississippi blues singer and guitarist known for his falsetto and distinctive guitar style. Johnson belonged to the same broad generation of Mississippi blues performers as Patton.
Call and response: Call and response is a musical pattern in which one phrase is answered by another voice or instrument. Patton often shaped songs through exchanges between vocal lines and guitar phrases.

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Country bluesRelated: His forceful vocals and percussive guitar show an early Delta approach.