Blues is an African-American music that has a wide range of
emotions and musical styles. “Feeling blue” is expressed in songs whose verses
lament injustice or express longing for a better life and lost loves, jobs, and
money. Blues is also a wild dance music that celebrates pleasure and success. Its
concept is to overcome sadness and lose
the blues.Historically, the popularity of blues coincides with the rise of the
commercial recording industry, the introduction of “race” records aimed at
black record-buyers after 1920, and the emigration of black Americans from the rural
South to the urban North. The “country blues,” usually considered an earlier
form of the genre, was actually recorded in the mid-1920s.Blues remains with us
in contemporary American culture, and as a traditional musical form it has been
subjected to countless revivals and reinterpretations. Its current
practitioners often integrate the sounds and instrumental pyrotechnics of rock
music and the sheen of urban soul; but the twelve-bar form, variations on the
blues chord progression, and emotive lyrical content remain relatively
unchanged.
Examples of Blues Artists
Robert Cray
John Lee Hooker
- Five Long Years - Canned Heat/Memphis Slim
- You're Changin'- Michael Bloomfield
- Introduction-Etta James
- Doctor Blues- Otis Spann
- Unlucky One- Sunnyland Slim
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