“The Blues” is a globally-rooted, American-born genre of music that, while it has developed a very particular set of musical parameters and technical requirements, ultimately it is about how that song you’re singing makes you feel.
Let’s explore:
EARLY BLUES:
W.C. Handy | Bessie Smith | Ma Rainey | Tampa Red
COUNTRY BLUES:
MISSISSIPPI (DELTA) BLUES:
Robert Johnson | Charley Patton
PIEDMONT BLUES:
Blind Willie McTell | Blind Boy Fuller | Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
MEMPHIS BLUES:
Memphis Jug Band | Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers | Memphis Minnie | B.B. King
BOOGIE WOOGIE:
Clarence “Pine Top” Smith | Jimmy Yancey | (guitar boogie: John Lee Hooker)
BIG BAND BLUES/JUMP BLUES:
Jimmy Rushing | Lionel Hampton | Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
CHICAGO BLUES:
Muddy Waters | Willie Dixon | Howlin’ Wolfe | Sonny Boy Williamson
ELECTRIC BLUES:
T-Bone Walker | Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry
SWAMP BLUES:
SKIFFLE:
Lonnie Donegan | A very young Jimmy Page
LATIN BLUES:
Carlos Santana (performing with Buddy Guy)
TULSA BLUES:
TEXAS ROCK-BLUES:
EARLY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL:
Elvis Presley | Little Richard | Buddy Holly | The Big Bopper | Ritchie Valens
SOUL:
Etta James | Ray Charles | Otis Redding | Sam Cooke | Mavis
Staples | The Staple Singers | Aretha Franklin | Solomon Burke
The Supremes | Smokey Robinson & The Temptations, Gladys Knight and the Pips | Stevie Wonder
Curtis Mayfield | Earth, Wind & Fire | The Commodores
FUNK:
The JBs | James Brown | Sly & the Family Stone | Parliament/Funkadelic
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