Links
A list of useful blues resources. If you want your website to be listed here, please contact the Blues Timeline
Blues Music
- East Coast Piedmont Blues - University of North Carolina at Asheville
- Radio Broadcasts by Stefan Grossman - Recorded in the 1970s and early 1980s. Useful data about blues history and old musicians' styles. Downloadable!
- Blues Dust - A collection of blues lyrics
American History and Culture
- Afro-Louisiana History and Geneaology 1719-1820 - The background of 100,000 slaves who were brought to Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries
- The American Folklife Center - It is part of the Lybrary of Congress
- Delta Blues Museum in Clarcksdale, Mississippi
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Documenting the American South - Primary resources for the study of southern history, literature and culture - UNC - University of North Carolina
- Folkstreams - "The best of American folklore films" (I agree!)
- Library of Congress - Voices from the Days of Slavery
- Mississippi History Now - An online publication of the Mississippi Historical Society
- NARA - Archives.gov - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
- Southern Spaces - An Internet journal and scholarly forum
Record Labels
- Brunswick Records
- Document Records
- Jazzology
- JSP Records
- Old Hat Records
- Paramount Records Discography at the Mills Music Library, University of Wisconsin
- ParamountsHome - a "digital Paramount library" of sorts
- RCA Victor
- Yazoo Records
- Yellow Dog Records
Blues People (both real and unreal)
Alan Lomax
John Henry
- John Henry - The Steel Driving Man - about the legend of John Henry
Blues Places
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio (Railroad)
Foundations, Radios, etc.
- Folk Music Archives
- Jessie Mae Hempill Foundation - A nonprofit vehicle to draw public attention to the hill country blues music indigenous to the Northern Mississippi region, thereby ensuring its preservation
- Music Makers Relief Foundation, Inc. - Helps the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of Southern music gain recognition and meet their day to day needs
- Red Lick Records - Blues CDs, DVDs, Books, used and new
- Wood Songs - A worldwide effort to encourage grassroots, Americana music
