Blues Music

Actually Blues style of music was born in the USA in the early 1900's. Slavery and racism were its developmental beginning's.

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the instruments harken back to the origins of blues in the 20s when the original blues artists were poor - field hands, slaves and migrants, born in the fields of the bread basket states that border the Mississippi - they used hand made instruments, inexpensive instruments - used and hand me downs - the master was the acoustic guitar due to its widespread availability, low cost and portability - a lot of blues musicians were travelers - no home to speak of, singing about loss and love and pain - no roots or broken roots so portability was vital to early blues; next most popular was probably the harmonica - again highly portable easy to learn and play came in a variety of keys (so adaptable to many songs) and filled the space that a piano or other complex stringed instrument would fill in an orchestra or band; as blues became a staple and moved to the mainstream - into bars and the like, the piano with it's vast tonal range found it's place in the genre; with the birth of the electric guitar in the 40s a new style of blues was born - now known as Chicago blues it features heavy electric guitar strains with brighter tonal qualities - favoring the Fender family (Stratocaster) or the Gibsons - as blues moved from the fields to the mainstream it became Delta blues or Mississippi blues and retained the heavier darker tones of the acoustic flavored with a single electric guitar; the resonator guitar was introduced in 1927 and was essentially a metal or wood based guitar with a sound cone that amplified slightly above the other instruments - also known as the Dobro it has quick high string action and slide guitarists liked it for it's versatility - it could be played as an acoustic or as a slide guitar and became a staple in both Chicago and Delta blues. Noticeably missing from TRUE blues are percussion and wind instruments (including drums, castanets, tambourines, sax, horns, and scrapers). Those instruments are found in regional blues and blues spinoffs but not in true blues.

Characteristics are harder to define - but its roots lie in slave field music - lines that are sung then repeated by others "Lawd said my mama was comin' home (repeat by chorus "said mama was comin' home) she been gone far far too long (repeat by chorus "gone far far too long") She gone catch that midnight train and be in my arms" (repeat by chorus "gone be in my arms yes lawd in my arms") when Mama comes home when Mama gets home (repeat by chorus "when Mama comes home yes Lawd when Mama gets home") that set a rhythm for field work that passed the time. this is known as the "call and response"

the other major characteristic is the soulful gritty raw play on real life - no fairy tales or fantasies - the songs - the lyrics are truthful, often painful, and always honest and gut wrenchingly full of emotion - no topics are off limits in blues and they play on daily life realities from social issues like police brutality, abuse and neglect, oppression, poverty, to personal issues like lost love, found love, true love, infidelity, sexuality, salvation and redemption.

Blues is often considered the only true American form of music - and that may be true - despite it being a blend of African music and Afro- American gospel, it is its own style with nothing even close comparatively. We cannot lay claim to campfire western music as that has been played out on plains and prairies on ranges and pampas world wide - merely in different languages - if Blues is our only claim to musical fame - it's a GREAT one to own.

W.C Handy died pneumonia on 29th March, 1958.

Blues came from early folk music played by blacks in the Delta region. Some of it came from Chicago. Another source for the music was black gospel.

Chicago Blues is a form of 'blues' music that originated in Chicago. The difference between Chicago Blues and 'normal' blues is Chicago blues tend to have more electrically-amplified guitar, drums, piano bass guitar and saxophone.

From: The Sound of People and Places - a geography of American Music from Country to Classical and Blues to Bop. Fourth Edition, Edited by George O. Carney Chapter 15 -Urban Blues: The Sound of the Windy City. Page 242 "Early Chicago Blues". George O. Carney "Chicago was introduced to the blues as early as the 1920's when Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red recorded for Columbia and RCA Victor. It was a mixture of the declining classic blues borne from vaudeville and the country blues from the Mississippi Delta. Known as the "Bluebird Beat", after Victor's celebrated subsidiary blues label, it was a "sweetened" version of the Delta blues strongly tinted with jazz and frequently carried by bass and drums. As an acoustic form, it was directed toward an urban Black audience trying to become sophisticated without totally excluding their life in the South. Dr. George O. Carney is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Oklahoma State University and is only a handful of international authorities on the cultural geography of music.

The English word "music" comes from the Greek term "mousike". It was related to the art of listening to the muses who were Greek goddesses.

Game music, but if you wanted to know what kind they are, they are MIDI's much like the same tones form an old mobile phone.

The genre is not specific, however, it could be classed as Pop Rock, or under the category of all Blue October's music "Bi-Polar Art Rock"

The point of "BLue" music is for people to express their feelings in a song, once sung by black American slaves, singing about their blues (downs) which was being slaves.

rock 'n' roll

Blue Rodeo is a Canadian band that plays country rock music. The band formed in 1984 and consists of various members who come and go. Some of their released albums include 'Lost Together' and 'Tremolo'.

I can remember two of the songs used this weekend (9/25/10) when I saw them at Kaneohe MCB. The opener was the first sequence of the movie Top Gun and the other was Saliva's Ladies and Gentlemen. I cannot remember the others though :(

i rember some of them rolling stones start me up , van halen dreams, Foo fighters my hero metallica fuel , acdc thunder struck, this is our country i cant rember the name of the artist , tom petty learning to fly , Kenny loggins danger zone that's all i can rember

A very cool Blues band in the central Florida area... Probably the best vocal / Guitar combination around!

Blues influenced R&B, Rock and Roll, Rap, Hip Hop, and definetely changed jazz

I'm not from Ireland or anything. But i imagine it's just as important in Ireland as it is anywhere else.

They were african americans in the south of the usa . They were slaves and sang whiles working.

Music played a therapeutic role in the lives of slaves. They would sing songs in order to get through their slave labor and vent about their mistreatments. Common themes of the song would be a better afterlife. Often songs would often have secret meanings.

Robert Johnson - governor - died in 1735.

That question does not make sense. If you are asking if Alice Blue Gown is a musical, then yes... I think.

mostly a shuffle.

Barbiturates make people very relaxed, calm, and sleepy

Cheese is molded on purpose. The blue in cheese is the color of mold.

W.C. Handy