He also listened to a great deal of Delta blues.
The slide guitar became an important part of the Delta blues.
Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free.
His music has been characterized as a mixture of delta blues and jazz.
In the 1920s, Bracey had not yet started playing delta blues and each of his songs were different.
The main difference to the delta blues is the ragtime based rhythm.
His inspiration was to find an instrument that would give him music "deeper than the Delta blues."
Johnson fused approaches specific to Delta blues to those from the broader music world.
They printed color brochures with an itinerary through Delta blues country.
People are reticent to make those connections between Delta blues and punk rock because they sound different.
