Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Delta Blind Billy was an American Delta Blues artist and outlaw. He performed with contemporaries such Arthur Big Boy Crudup, and Papa Charlie McCoy, as a traveling blues man throughout Mississippi. One of his more notable songs, "Hidden Man Blues" was an early variant of Man of Constant Sorrow using the following lines, "Man of sorrow all my days Left the home where I been raised." Delta Blind Billy's play on Man of Constant Sorrow suggests he traveled extensively, possibly through Appalachia. He is known for recording songs about being an outlaw, despite being blind.Delta Blind Billy is not to be confused with an earlier "Blind Billy" who was a former slave and musician.. }
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- Delta_Blind_Billy abstract "Delta Blind Billy was an American Delta Blues artist and outlaw. He performed with contemporaries such Arthur Big Boy Crudup, and Papa Charlie McCoy, as a traveling blues man throughout Mississippi. One of his more notable songs, "Hidden Man Blues" was an early variant of Man of Constant Sorrow using the following lines, "Man of sorrow all my days Left the home where I been raised." Delta Blind Billy's play on Man of Constant Sorrow suggests he traveled extensively, possibly through Appalachia. He is known for recording songs about being an outlaw, despite being blind.Delta Blind Billy is not to be confused with an earlier "Blind Billy" who was a former slave and musician.".