Blues 101

What the Blues is all about ! To understand the Blues you have to know where it came from !
Song 1. Son House / Death Letter Blues Song 2. Buddy Guy / Time I met the Blues
Song 3.Sonny Boy Williamson / Bring it on home Song 4. Muddy Waters / Whiskey Blue
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States around the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression is the most common. The blue notes that, for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or gradually bent (minor 3rd to major 3rd) in relation to the pitch of the major scale, are also an important part of the sound.
The blues genre is based on the blues form but possesses other characteristics such as specific lyrics, bass lines and instruments. Blues can be subdivided into several subgenres ranging from country to urban blues that were more or less popular during different periods of the 20th century. Best known are the Delta, Piedmont, Jump and Chicago blues styles. World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience, especially white listeners. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues-rock evolved.
The term "the blues" refers to the "blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is found in George Colman's one-act farce Blue Devils (1798). Though the use of the phrase in African-American music may be older, it has been attested to since 1912, when Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" became the first copyrighted blues composition. In lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a depressed mood.
Delta Blues Men
Muddy Waters
1913 1983
Luther Allison
1939 1997
John Henry Barbee
1905 1964
Lefty Bates
1920 2007
Carey Bell
1936 2007
Eddie "Guitar" Burns
1928
Paul Butterfield
1942 1987
Eddie Boyd
1914 1994
James Cotton
1935
Blind John Davis
1913 1985
Bo Diddley
1928 2008
Willie Dixon
1915 1992
Lefty Dizz
1937 1993
David "Honeyboy" Edwards
1915 2011
Leroy Foster
1923 1958
Calvin Frazier
1915 1972
Buddy Guy
1936
Phil Guy
1940 2008
Shakey Jake Harris
1921 1990
Earl Hooker
1929 1970
John Lee Hooker
1917 2001
Big Walter Horton
1918 1981
J. B. Hutto
1926 1983
Elmore James
1918 1963
Bobo Jenkins
1916 1984
L.V. Johnson
1946 1994
Floyd Jones
1917 1989
Moody Jones
1908 1988
Albert King
1924 1992
Eddie King
1938 2012
Freddie King
1934 1976
Bonnie Lee
1931 2006
Hip Linkchain
1936 1989
James Montgomery (singer)
1949
Nick Moss
1972
Charlie Musselwhite
1944
Robert Nighthawk
1909 1967
Odie Payne
1926 1989
Pinetop Perkins
1913 2011
Snooky Pryor
1921 2006
Boogie Woogie Red
1925 1985
Jimmy Reed
1925 1976
Soko Richardson
1939 2004
Jimmy Rogers
1924 1997
Otis Rush
1934
Magic Sam
1937 1970
Eddie Shaw
1937
Johnny Shines
1915 1992
Little Mack Simmons
1933 2000
Magic Slim
1937
Little Smokey Smothers
1939 2010
Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers
1929 1993
Little Sonny
1932 2000
Otis Spann
1930 1970
Arthur "Big Boy" Spires
1912 1990
Bob Stroger
1939
Eddie Taylor
1923 1985
Hound Dog Taylor
1915 1975
The Butler Twins
1942 2003 /2004
Little Walter
1930 1968
Baby Boy Warren
1919 1977
Joe Weaver
1934 2006
Big Mama Thornton
1926 1984
Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
1927 1999
Carl Weathersby
1953
Junior Wells
1934 1998
Jody Williams
1935
Johnny Williams
1906 2006
Sonny Boy Williamson I
1918 1948
Sonny Boy Williamson II
c.1912 1965
Washboard Willie
1909 1991
Howlin' Wolf
1910 1976
Big John Wrencher
1923 1977
Johnny "Man" Young
1918 1974

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