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Blues 101

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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