Rural Blues - Vaktmesteren.com
www.vaktmesteren.com/original.htmThe labor was hard, and workers sang the blues to make themselves feel better and to work their brain as they worked their bodies. The first notation of Delta blues lyrics was made in 1903 by Charles Peabody, a white archaeologist who had hired a team of blacks as diggers at a site near Stovall, Mississippi (3, p. 27).