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Blues Music - Genre
Blues is about tradition and personal expression. At its core, the blues has remained the same since its inception. Most blues feature simple, usually three-chord, progressions and have simple structures that are open to endless improvisations, both ...More »
Popular Blues artists:
John Lee Hooker
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B.B. King
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Lightnin' Hopkins
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Ray Charles
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Dinah Washington
Styles of Blues:
Chicago Blues
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Country Blues
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Delta Blues
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Louisiana Blues
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Texas Blues
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Blues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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From blues music came great artists such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Bessie Smith and others. But the blues might never have been created if it had not been for the influence of hollers, calls, and the changes that occurred in the lives of blacks. ... Blues music reflected the new status of blacks.
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Turn to BluesMusicNow.com for the latest blues music news. ... Taylors final performance was on May 7, 2009 in Memphis at the Blues Music Awards, where she sang Wang Dang Doodle after receiving her award for Traditional Blues Female Artist Of The Year.
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The history of the blues is more than a musical chronology. The blues was born the day the West African shoreline fell from the horizon. It was raised amid the institutionalized savagery of the Deep South and flourished in the dark heart of America's largest cities.
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The Delta: Blues Music ... Musically, blues music is twelve-bars long in 4/4 time (although this may have been a later development). Its melody is shaped by a scale that is an adaptation of the African five-note scale to the western seven-note scale.
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