PIERMONT Carlos Colina and the Straightup Blues Band, blues. Feb.
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Where: House of Blues at Mandalay Bay's House of Blues
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LONG BRANCH "Long Branch Jazz & Blues Festival," jazz and blues. Aug.
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I mean post-election blues, holiday blues, end-of-the-year blues, all those afflictions that make us feel cranky, thin-skinned and intolerant.
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"Oaktown Blues," a quilt by Niambi Kee, celebrates the city's blues history.
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Anguished blues—I don't think the Vanity Set ever sang anguished blues.
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His other books on the subject included "Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records" (1984), "Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era" (2006) and "Barrelhouse Blues: Location Recordings and the Early Traditions of the Blues" (2009).
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CAPE MAY "Bourbon, Bacon, and Blues Cookout," with the South Jersey Blues Company.
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Blues and rock (or, more accurately, "blues" and "rock") singers enter the picture.
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I could get yellows and blues though" Mac -- "blues as far as percs?
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It is "King of the Delta Blues Singers," not "King of the Delta Blues."
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She was nominated this year by the Blues Foundation for a Blues Music Award in the soul blues female artist category, alongside Mavis Staples and Bettye LaVette, and she was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2015.
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David Bromberg: The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing but the Blues (Red House) In the year the Rolling Stones capitalized their franchise on the cheap by mining the blues of their youth, who'd have guessed they'd get smoked by this equally ancient folk muso?
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She loved the blues but she didn't want to be seen as a tragic blues figure.
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His liner notes were collected in "Blues Off the Record: Thirty Years of Blues Commentary" (1984).
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His "Deep in the Blues" (Verve) won a Grammy for best traditional blues album in 1997.
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He harks back to foot-stomping country blues in "The Governor," a sardonic take on the justice system, and in the lovelorn "Dirty Dishes Blues," proving his command of blues essentials.
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We lost B.B. King, we're losing blues clubs across the world … there ain't many blues clubs across the world no more and there ain't many blues musicians across the world no more.
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It now welcomes regional blues and African desert blues, and should attract a wider range of fans.
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St. Louis Blues The St. Louis Blues reconfigured plenty during the off-season, particularly among their forwards.
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Plus, so much of their music is blues-based, and blues-based music just isn't popular right now.
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ASBURY PARK "Asbury Park Blues and Brews Festival," performances by blues musicians and activities for children and families.
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THE BLUES BROTHERS (1978) Is there anything better than Fisher in one of The Blues Brothers' most memorable scenes?
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Whereas some of Jimi Hendrix stuff sounds dated because it was so based in blues music and American blues.
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The Last Poets, the Watts Prophets, Gil Scott-Heron, and others called on blues lines and blues chord changes.
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Doherty says that the Reds feel shamed by the Blues to a much greater degree than the Blues realize.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Friday about the blues historian Paul Oliver misspelled the given name of a blues artist.
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He later formed a blues band, Shoe Suede Blues, with which he continued to perform and record until recently.
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Depending on your interests and inclinations, that trio of words can evoke myriad things — highbrow, lowbrow, eyeshadow blues, baby blues….
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Simone, who died in 2003 at 70, combined blues, folk and jazz and blues to deliver her singular sultry style.
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BetStars Series Odds Blues 4-2: -125 Bruins 4-3: +230 Blues 4-3: +350 All three sportsbooks have Blues right winger Vladimir Tarasenko as the overwhelming favorite to win the Conn Smythe trophy as the Finals MVP.
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You should absolutely watch this video of Nas recording the 1928 blues track "On the Road Again" with 73-year-old blues harmonica maestro Charlie Musselwhite, if only to hear Nas discuss the links between rap and the blues.
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As big-city blues began to catch on in Britain, Mr. Gomelsky became interested in setting up blues nights at small clubs.
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The Blues Brothers officially debuted on Saturday Night Live in 1978, followed by the album Briefcase Full of Blues later that year.
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The win was the 12th in a row for the Blues over the Coyotes, who have not defeated the Blues since Nov.
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Going into it, comparing Transgender Dysphoria Blues and Shape Shift With Me, sonically, I love Shape Shift With Me more than Blues.
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He collaborated on "Blues With a Feeling" (2002), a biography of the blues musician Little Walter, with Scott Dirks and Ward Gaines.
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" Brett Bonner, the editor of the magazine Living Blues, said in an interview: "Paul was one of the founders of blues scholarship.
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"John McVie said to me, 'You know we're a blues band, this is really far away from the blues,'" Mr. Olsen recalled.
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The annual Chicago Blues Fest—the world's largest free blues event—expanded its hours in 2018 and broadened its reach beyond tribute acts.
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" Dan Aykroyd, who starred alongside Fisher in "The Blues Brothers," said that his "Blues Sister" was "beautiful, brilliant, funny, wise, kind, and generous.
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John Mayall recorded "Parchman Farm," Mr. Allison's ironic adaptation of a prison blues; so did the English rhythm-and-blues singer Georgie Fame.
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Ma Rainey did not make the first blues recording; that distinction belongs to Mamie Smith, the vaudevillian who recorded "Crazy Blues" in 1920.
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The figure is riff-like and although the changes are not conventional blues progressions, I tried to retain the flavor of the blues.
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He played in a number of blues groups in St Louis, borrowing much of his style from the expressive blues musician T-Bone Walker, before joining Jonnie Johnson's trio in 1953, finding a wider audience with a combination of blues, country, and ballads.
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Detour follows 2010's tellingly titled blues departure Memphis Blues and Kinky Boots, the 2012 Broadway musical she earned a Tony Award for scoring.
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Avs tie it late, beat Blues in shootout DENVER — The St. Louis Blues excel at carrying leads late into games against the Colorado Avalanche.
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As Elwood Blues once told his band, "We're on a mission from God" – in this case, to bring Blues Brothers back to the screen.
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Schwartz's late goal gives Blues series lead CHICAGO — St. Louis Blues left winger Jaden Schwartz knew exactly what to do on the power play.
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ABOUT THE BLUES (22-14-4): Tarasenko scored the Blues' lone goal versus the Maple Leafs, ending his season high-tying three-game drought.
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"It was a very lighthearted, fun kind of celebration," said Blues chairman Tom Stillman, who gave the president a "Trump" No. 45 Blues jersey.
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"Low Country Blues," Mr. Allman's sixth studio recording as a solo artist, was nominated for a Grammy Award for best blues album in 21970.
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In 1962, Baker replaced Charlie Watts as drummer in the blues band Alexis Corner's Blues Incorporated when the latter left to join the Rolling Stones.
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Allen and the rest of the Blues were relieved to prevail two nights after the Blues had squandered a late lead and lost to Edmonton.
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Blues tied atop division with win over Coyotes ST. LOUIS — Overcoming one injury after another has been the story of the St. Louis Blues season.
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Berglund powers Blues past Devils ST. LOUIS — Left winger Patrik Berglund's return to the St. Louis Blues' lineup could not have come at a better time.
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" The Blues later posted on Twitter a picture of Twain in a Blues jersey, accompanied by the message "It's not too late, @ShaniaTwain — come on over!
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In 1962 Mr. Baker joined Blues Incorporated, one of the earliest British rhythm-and-blues bands, beginning his contentious but musically rewarding association with Mr. Bruce.
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" The blues singer Bobby Rush, winning his first Grammy at age 83 for best traditional blues album, for "Porcupine Meat," said: "This is my 374th record.
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Perusing some of the titles in Guy's discography — A Man and the Blues, Pleading the Blues, Damn, Right I've Got the Blues — you get an idea of how the music has impacted him, but it's a little harder to understand how it worked the other way around.
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BLUES WING RETURNING Jaden Schwartz of the St. Louis Blues was activated from injured reserve and was expected to be in the lineup at Florida on Friday.
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The Blues signed free-agent forward Troy Brouwer — whose previous stops included the Blues and Flames — but he was unable to play Thursday due to visa issues.
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"It takes a lot of people by surprise — an accordion used in music that sounds like blues, soul, rhythm and blues, even rap these days," he said.
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And while this blues-infused deli food is a mutation of a century-old tradition, the pairing of traditional Jewish food and American blues music just works.
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American Epic: The Best of Blues (Lo-Max/Third Man/Columbia/Legacy) Anyone interested owns somewhat fainter and scratchier versions of tracks on this definitive country blues compilation.
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Blues beat Hurricanes behind Schenn's go-ahead goal RALEIGH, N.C — The hottest road goalie in the NHL may just be backup Carter Hutton of the St. Louis Blues.
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Around this time, he was combining the blues music he had played since he was a teenager, while borrowing techniques and tricks from blues legend T-Bone Walker.
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Rugami's collection attracts Kenyans who want to connect with their musical heritage and dig for genres like Jazz, Blues, Desert blues, Funk, Hip Hop, Soul, Bhenga and Rhumba.
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There will be tastings of beers and ciders, and, to liven things up, blues and bluegrass music: Blues, Brews and Botany, Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
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" At the University of Mississippi, according to his faculty page, he has taught courses like "The Blues Tradition in American Literature" and "Cotton, Slavery, Travel, and the Blues.
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But after a Rhode Island M.C. belittled the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for playing electronically, he rebelliously decided to go electric himself, backed by several Butterfield Blues members.
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But after a Rhode Island M.C. belittled the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for playing electrically, he rebelliously decided to go electric himself, backed by several Butterfield Blues members.
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Predators 3, Blues 2 (SO) Daniel Carr scored the decisive shootout goal as Nashville edged visiting St. Louis, beating the Blues for the second time in three days.
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"Then one night, I saw Magic Sam in a little blues club on the South Side," he said, referring to the blues singer and guitarist born Samuel Maghett.
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"Blues, Brews and Botany," which takes place on the bucolic lawns of the New York Botanical Garden, will blend tastings from more than 10 breweries, blues and old-time performances by Moonshine Falls and the Paul Josephs Blues Band, and classes on the processes and plants that go into making beer.
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EditorsNote: Corrects to Tarasenko in paragraph 3 Tarasenko scores in overtime as Blues beat Leafs TORONTO — The St. Louis Blues are doing more than talking about commitment and discipline.
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A guitarist and songwriter, he'll then perform a show that will lead young audiences on a tour of Delta blues and Piedmont blues, with excursions into jazz and folk.
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For blues fans, the Tremblant International Blues Festival (July 133 to 15), in the village of Mont Tremblant, in Canada, is celebrating its 25th anniversary in a big way.
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It topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart and won Franklin two 1967 Grammys, for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording and a new category, Best Rhythm & Blues Solo Vocal Performance, Female.
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Blues subgenres include country blues, such as Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues and West Coast blues. 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 developed, which blended blues styles with rock music.
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Known to many as "Doctor Blues," Kossek has been teaching African-American history, culture, literature, and blues music since 1979 when he started his first ‘American Club’ in collaboration with the American Consulate General in Kraków, Poland under communism. His courses expose students to blues research, blues journalism and literature, blues performances, blues organizations, blues charities, and others. In his courses, Kossek educates about the role that the blues played in African-American history. He also focuses on blues theory, ways to preserve the blues, and how to implement the blues in teaching methods.
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His total recorded output consists of the tracks "Fat Mama Blues", "House Lady Blues", "Jab's Blues", "Kokomo Blues" Parts 1 and 2, "My Woman Blues", "Polock Blues", and "Pratt City Blues". All were included on the compilation album Boogie Woogie & Barrelhouse Piano, Vol. 1 (1928–1932), issued in 1992 by Document Records.
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The club was known as Los Angeles Blues 23 in 2011, Pali Blues in 2012, OC Blues Strikers FC in 2013, OC Pateadores Blues in 2014 and Orange County Blues U-23 in 2015-2016.
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Jefferson Blues Magazine is a Swedish blues magazine. It is published by the Swedish Blues Association (SBA). The first issue was published in the spring 1968, which makes it the oldest blues magazine still in print in the world.Nelikymppiset onnittelutuulella at Blues News' siteJefferson Blues Magazine Finnish Blues News is almost as old as Jefferson, as is the French Soul Bag which covers Blues and related genres.
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These drew on his studies with Rev. Davis and the other older blues artists and on his obsessive listening to old 78s. The Country Blues Guitar, Delta Blues, Texas Blues, Ragtime Blues Guitar and Rev. Gary Davis/Blues Guitar have remained in print through various editions.
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Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is one of the earliest forms of blues music. The mainly solo vocal with acoustic fingerstyle guitar accompaniment developed in the rural Southern United States in the early 1900s. Artists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson (Texas), Charley Patton (Mississippi), Blind Willie McTell (Georgia) were among the first to record blues songs in the 1920s. Country blues ran parallel to urban blues, which was popular in cities.
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"Alabama Woman Blues" is a blues standard written and recorded by the American blues musician Leroy Carr.
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Gil electronic blues find it under 2020 The electric blues is a type of blues music distinguished by the amplification of the guitar, the bass guitar, and/or the harmonica and other instruments. Electric blues is performed in several regional subgenres, such as Chicago blues, Texas blues, Delta blues and Memphis blues. Though most interpretations of electric blues have a solemn tone through the common uses of the minor pentatonic scale, slow backing, and extended soloing periods, that extend through all subgenres. The following is a list of electric blues musicians.
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The West Coast blues is a type of blues influenced by jazz and jump blues, with strong piano-dominated sounds and jazzy guitar solos, which originated from Texas blues players who relocated to California in the 1940s.Vladimir, Bogdanov. All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues, Backbeat Books, page xii, (2002) - West Coast blues also features smooth, honey-toned vocals, frequently crossing into urban blues territory.
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In 2013, Németh was nominated in five categories for a Blues Music Award. These included 'B.B. King Entertainer', 'Contemporary Blues Album', 'Instrumentalist - Harmonica', 'Soul Blues Album', and 'Soul Blues Male Artist'. Németh performed at the Great Lakes Blues Society in April; the Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music Festival in May; and the Jackson Rhythm and Blues Festival in August 2013.
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Side One. # "Born to Sing the Blues" (Lenny Adelson, Imogen Carpenter) - 2.47 # "Beale Street Blues" (W.C. Handy) - 3.04 # "Wabash Blues" (Fred Meinken, Dave Ringle) - 2.30 # "Basin Street Blues" (Spencer Williams) - 2.37 Side Two. # "The Birth of the Blues" (Ray Henderson, Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew Brown) - 4.05 # "Careless Love Blues" (Traditional) (W.
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Other works of his include Petticoat Lane Rag, Colorado Blues, Kansas City Blues, Fort Worth Blues, Tipperary Blues, Shamrock Rag, White Lily Dreams, and Old Glory On Its Way.
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The new blues revolution refers to the time in the late aughts when the contemporised form of the deep blues caught the mainstream imagination, and the blues thereby gained a wider audience. It is akin to the British blues boom of the mid-1960s pioneered by artists such as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, and Phil May, who adapted and added creatively to traditional American blues (e.g., Delta blues, Country blues, Chicago blues, and other blues genres originating in early 1900s America). The British blues boom made British blues popular both in the United Kingdom and in the United States during this time.
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The club was awarded the "Keeping the Blues Alive Award for Blues Clubs" by the Blues Foundation in 2014.
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The Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois. It is based on earlier blues idioms, such as Delta blues, but performed in an urban style.
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She was included in the books Rolling Stone Guide to Jazz and Blues, Elwood's Blues by Dan Aykroyd, The Blueshound Guide to Blues, AllMusic, and other blues books and periodicals.
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The acoustic roots-focused movement also gave rise to the terms "folk blues" and "acoustic blues", especially being applied to performances and recordings made around this period. "Country blues" has also been used to describe regional acoustic styles, such as Delta blues, Piedmont blues, or the earliest Chicago, Texas, and Memphis blues.
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"Driftin' Blues" or "Drifting Blues" is a blues standard, recorded by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers in 1945. The song is a slow blues and features Charles Brown's smooth, soulful vocals and piano. It was one of the biggest blues hits of the 1940s and "helped define the burgeoning postwar West Coast blues style". "Driftin' Blues" has been interpreted and recorded by numerous artists in various styles.
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The Downchild Blues Band is a Canadian blues band, described by one reviewer as "the premier blues band in Canada".Craig Harris, [ Biography of The Downchild Blues Band]; www.allmusic.com. The band is still commonly known as the Downchild Blues Band, though the actual band name was shortened to "Downchild" in the early 1980s. The Blues Brothers band was heavily influenced by Downchild Blues Band.
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The Kendall Wall Band entered into the Canadian blues music scene in the early 1980s in Toronto, Ontario at a time before blues societies and organizations were popular if known about, there were no Juno Awards or Maple Blues Awards for the blues music genre, blues radio stations and shows were minimal if not non-existent in many areas. > Blues societies have flourished, most notably the Toronto Blues Society, > established in 1985 and honoured as blues organization of the year at the > 1986 W.C. Handy Awards in Memphis. In 1997 the society founded the Maple > Blues Award, Canada's only national blues awards program. Blues categories > have also been presented at the Juno Awards (beginning in 1994).
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Country blues singer and slide guitarist Casey Bill Weldon was born in Pine Bluff. Blues pianist Roosevelt Sykes was born in Elmar. Jump blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon was born in Gurdon. Electric blues and Chicago blues artist Willie "Big Eyes" Smith was born in Helena.
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Edna Hicks (October 14, 1891 or 1895 – August 16, 1925) was an American blues singer and musician. Her recorded songs include "Hard Luck Blues" and "Poor Me Blues". She also recorded "Down Hearted Blues", and "Gulf Coast Blues" on the Brunswick label in 1923.
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"It Hurts Me Too" is a blues standard that is "one of the most interpreted blues [songs]". First recorded in 1940 by American blues musician Tampa Red, the song is a mid-tempo eight-bar blues that features slide guitar. It borrows from earlier blues songs and has been recorded by many blues and other artists.
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The Blues Rock scene has dramatically emerged in South Africa. Albert Frost, Dan Patlansky, The Black Cat Bones, Gerald Clark, Crimson House Blues, The Blues Broers and Boulevard Blues band are some of the most prominent blues acts in South-Africa. Figures like Piet Botha and Valiant Swart have largely contributed to the South-African Blues and Rock scene.
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The lyrics are as follows: "Hill Street Blues, Hill Street Blues, Hill Street Blues, I've got those Hill Street Blues." The lyrics are meant to go along with the tune of the song.
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Eric Culberson is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter from Savannah, Georgia, United States. Victor Wainwright's own ensemble backed Culberson at the Savannah Blues Bar, during the former's high school years. Culberson's music has been reviewed by Living Blues, Real Blues Magazine, and Blues RevueBlues Revue – October 1999 magazines. His first album, Blues is my Religion, (Kingsnake Records, 1995) reached No. 24 on the American Billboard blues chart.
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The audience for both blues and jazz split, and the border between blues and jazz became more defined. The blues' 12-bar structure and the blues scale was a major influence on rock and roll music. Rock and roll has been called "blues with a backbeat"; Carl Perkins called rockabilly "blues with a country beat". Rockabillies were also said to be 12-bar blues played with a bluegrass beat.
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His latter day musical associates included John Cephas, John Jackson, and Archie Edwards. In addition to performing, Franklin has taught blues guitar playing, and been on the Euroblues Promotions Blues Week, Port Townsend Blues Week, and the Augusta Heritage Center Blues Week faculties. Franklin was an Executive Board member of the DC Blues Society and helped to organize and appeared at the first annual DC Blues Society Blues Festival. He has also contributed to the periodical publications from the DC Blues Society.
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However, beginning in the 1990s, digital multitrack recording and other technological advances and new marketing strategies including video clip production increased costs, challenging the spontaneity and improvisation that are an important component of blues music.Aldin, Mary Katherine. In Nothing but the Blues. p. 130. Denise LaSalle In the 1980s and 1990s, blues publications such as Living Blues and Blues Revue were launched, major cities began forming blues societies, outdoor blues festivals became more common, and more nightclubs and venues for blues emerged.
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The album received mostly positive reviews. Critics praised the blues and jazz styles, and the solid track listing, but criticized the lack of original songs (ignoring that Vaughan had died before the album was even conceived). The Sky Is Crying illustrates many of Vaughan's musical influences, including songs in the style of traditional Delta blues, Texas blues, Chicago blues, jump blues, jazz blues, and Jimi Hendrix's blues-rock. The album's tone alternates primarily between uptempo pieces and gritty, slow blues.
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He appeared at South Carolina's Lowcountry Blues Festival and Festival of Discovery in 2011 as well as many other festivals in the South and clubs throughout Mississippi. In January 2014, Singleton signed with Charlotte, North Carolina's booking agency, Blue Mountain Artists. He played the Springing The Blues Festival in Jacksonville Beach, Florida in April 2014. He is booked to perform at a number of blues festivals in the summer of 2014, including The North Atlantic Blues Festival, Cincinnati Blues Festival, The PA Blues Festival, Flood City Music Festival, The Heritage Blues Festival, The Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, The Blues At The Beach Festival and the Mighty Mississippi Blues Festival.
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Often referred to as simply "Blues"; blues jam played after encores during the Meddle tour, during 1971. Also see "Alan's Blues" (above).
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Two of the band's albums, Blues Weather (1999) and Building Full of Blues (2008) received the Juno Award for Best Blues Album.
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Lynn herself was nominated as 'Best Soul Blues Artist'. In 2014, Lynn was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the 'Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female)' category. Her album, Royal Oaks Blues Cafe, reached number one in the Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart in September 2014.
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"Talkin' 'bout the blues; Radio host Holger Petersen releases second book of interviews". Edmonton Journal, January 28, 2018. For his work on Saturday Night Blues and on CKUA Radio's Natch'l Blues, in 2008 Petersen won the 'Keeping the Blues Alive' award from the Blues Foundation."Holger Petersen".
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In 1992, the Bay Area Blues Society and the South Bay Blues Awards named Jones, "Keyboard Player of the Year". In 2008, Jones published his autobiography, The Blues Man: 40 Years with the Blues Legends.
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Van Rijn received his Ph.D. from Leiden University in 1995 for Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR. Two years later the commercial edition of this dissertation was published by University Press of Mississippi with the same title. In 2004 The Truman and Eisenhower Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs, 1945-1960 was published by Continuum. The third volume of Guido van Rijn's research into blues and gospel singers' reactions to American politics appeared as Kennedy's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK (University Press of Mississippi, 2007). The final three volumes were published by Agram Blues Books: President Johnson's Blues (2009), The Nixon and Ford Blues (2011) and The Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr. & Obama Blues (2012).
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This is the discography for American blues rock band Blues Traveler.
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2014 - 2018 Cardiff Blues Academy Coach. 2018 - Cardiff Blues Forwards Coach.
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Billboard, Review of Hard Believer, August 11, 2009 Blues Revue said Hard Believer is "a fine set of roadhouse-rockin' blues.".Nager, Larry. Blues Revue, October 2009 Blurt says, "Hard Believer might just be the best yet from this veteran Bay Area blues artist." In May 2010, The Blues Foundation awarded Castro multiple Blues Music Award honors for Blues Male Artist of the Year, Contemporary Blues Album of the Year, B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, and with his band, Band of the Year.
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Retrieved 2014 May 14 England's Blues & Rhythm called Singleton "a great, new blues talent…young, original, soulful and intense…superb, blistering guitar."Stephenson, Mike. "The Blues Today: Jarekus Singleton," Blues & Rhythm, April 2014, Issue 288, page 16 According to Living Blues magazine, "Jarekus Singleton is making some serious blues noise...blending modern-day blues and emotionally intense soul with melodic, hot-toned lead guitar, funk-seasoned rhythms and hip-hop flavored lyrics."Hassel, Leslie.
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Koko Taylor (born Cora Anna Walton, September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009)Keepnews, Peter (June 4, 2009) "Koko Taylor, Queen of Chicago Blues, Is Dead at 80". The New York Times. was an American singer whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues. Sometimes called "The Queen of the Blues", she was known for her rough, powerful vocals.
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The Best of the Blues is a 2002 two-CD compilation album by Gary Moore. The first disc contains songs from his 1990s blues albums After Hours, Blues Alive, Blues for Greeny and, most prominently, Still Got the Blues. The second disc is entirely live. Both discs feature blues veterans Albert King, B. B. King and Albert Collins as guest artists.
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Dick Waterman and the blues festivals he organized in Europe played a major role in propagating blues music abroad. In the UK, bands emulated U.S. blues legends, and UK blues rock-based bands had an influential role throughout the 1960s.O'Neal, Jim. In Nothing but the Blues. pp. 347–387.
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In 1912, the sheet music industry published another blues composition--"Dallas Blues" by Hart A. Wand of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.Samuel B. Charters, The Country Blues (Da Capo Press, 1975), , pages 34-35: "The first was Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues", published in March; the second was Arthur Seals's "Bab Seals' Blues", published in August; Handy finally brought out his blues in September. Both Handy and Arthur Seals were Negroes, but the music that they titled "blues is more or less derived from the standard popular musical styles of the "coon- song" and "cake-walk" type. It is ironic the first published piece in the Negro "blues idiom", Dallas Blues, was by a white man, Hart Wand." Two other blues-like compositions, precipitating the Tin Pan Alley adoption of blues elements, were also published in 1912: "Baby Seals' Blues" by Baby Franklin Seals (arranged by Artie Matthews) and "Memphis Blues", another ragtime arrangement with a single 12-bar section,Saffle, Michael, Perspectives on American Music, 1900-1950, Routledge (2000), p. 74: "White's "Original Chicago Blues" (1915) is a later blues/rag almagam, as is "The Memphis Blues." by W. C. Handy.
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Blues & Rhythm, The Gospel Truth is a British monthly music magazine dealing with all aspects of blues and gospel music. Founded in July 1984 it is - along with its American counterpart Living Blues - considered to be the premier magazine for all aspects of research into blues and rhythm & blues music (pre- and post-war blues, rhythm and blues, doo-wop vocal groups, vintage soul, gospel and the contemporary blues scene). Blues & Rhythm′s team of writers and reviewers consists of record collectors and some of the world's foremost experts on the history of Blues/R&B;/Doo Wop/Gospel and Soul music. Blues & Rhythm is run by an editorial board, since its inception it has carried on the long tradition of research into Blues, R&B; and Gospel music including artists, musicians, record companies and associated subjects.
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"Worried Life Blues" became an early blues standard and was among the first songs inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1983 as a "Classic of Blues Recordings". In 2006, the song received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. Over the years numerous artists have covered "Worried Life Blues" or some mixture of it, "Someday Baby Blues", and other elements, making it one of the most recorded blues songs of all time. When Charles Brown reworked it as a West Coast blues number titled "Trouble Blues", it was one of the biggest hits of 1949 and spent 15 weeks at number one on Billboard's Race Records/Rhythm & Blues Records chart.
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It reached number 12 in the Living Blues radio chart, and entered at number 15 in the Billboard Blues Albums chart. It was nominated in 2019 for a Blues Music Award in the 'Contemporary Blues Album' category.
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Big Road Blues: Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues. Da Capo. .
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Blues and Trouble is an album by American blues pianist Curtis Jones.
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Taj's Blues is a compilation album by American blues artist Taj Mahal.
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Blues News is a bi-monthly Finnish blues and roots music magazine.
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Phantom Blues is a studio album by American blues artist Taj Mahal.
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William Augusta Trice (February 10, 1908 – December 11, 1976) was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He released two singles and an album. He remained loyal to his native North Carolina and its regional blues style, often referred to as Piedmont blues, East Coast blues, or more generally country blues.
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The organization manages, staffs and sponsors weekly Cape Fear Blues Jams and the annual Cape Fear Blues Challenge talent competition (winners travel to Memphis TN for the International Blues Challenge). Its largest endeavor is the Cape Fear Blues Festival, an annual celebration that showcases local, regional and national touring blues artists performing at a variety of events and venues, including the Cape Fear Blues Cruise, Blues Workshops, an All-Day Blues Jam, and numerous live club shows. Membership in the CFBS is open to listeners and musicians alike.
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The BMAs are generally recognized as the highest honor given to blues musicians and are awarded by vote of Blues Foundation members. The Blues Foundation is also responsible for the Blues Hall of Fame Museum, International Blues Challenge, Keeping the Blues Alive Award, and Blues in the Schools program. The foundation established the HART Fund (Handy Artists Relief Trust) for blues musicians and their families in financial need due to a broad range of health concerns. The Fund provides for acute, chronic and preventive medical and dental care as well as funeral expenses.
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Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s. An amalgam of traditional folk blues and urban theater music, the style is also known as vaudeville blues. Classic blues were performed by female singers accompanied by pianists or small jazz ensembles and were the first blues to be recorded. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and the other singers in this genre were instrumental in spreading the popularity of the blues.
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This is the birthplace of a blues style known as the "Bentonia blues." The venue is profiled in the 2015 documentary film I Am the Blues."I Am the Blues Directed by Daniel Cross". Exclaim!, May 4, 2016.
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These changes were in name only, the organization remained the same. The festival is also often erroneously referred to as the Cincinnati Blues Festival, Cincinnati, Blues Fest, Cincy Blues Festival, and/or the Cincinnati Queen City Blues Festival.
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Punk blues is a fusion of punk rock, blues rock and blues music. It also can be influenced by garage rock. the White Stripes, Flat Duo Jets, and Cage the Elephant are notable examples of punk blues bands.
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2015 Keeping the Blues Alive Award – EducationRecipient from Katowice, Poland Jerzy "George" Kossek is a nationally and internationally recognized educator, blues theorist, and blues promoter. He has actively promoted blues music in Poland over the last three decades.
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In 2015, Ivankovich was inducted into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame at the Master Blues Artist level.Barry Kerzner, "Killer Ray Allison and Chicago Blues All Stars Among 2015 Chicago Blues Hall of Fame Inductees," chicagoblues.com, October 3, 2015. In 2016, he was emcee of the Blues Today Music, Media & Health Summit in Chicago, an event addressing financial and medical difficulties of local blues musicians.
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At the Chicago Blues Festival, one newspaper journalist described her as "enthralling", whilst in her home town at the Juneteenth Blues Festival, she was described as the 'Blues Artist of the Year.' Lynn appeared at the Notodden Blues Festival in both 1999 and 2009, and with Little Milton at the San Francisco Blues Festival in 2001. In 2014, she performed at the Lucerne Blues Festival.
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Baraka starts the chapter with marking it as the period where classic blues and ragtime proliferated. The change from Baraka's idea of traditional blues to classic blues represented a new professional entertainment stage for African-American art. Prior to classical blues, traditional blues' functionality required no explicit rules, and therefore a method didn't exist. Classic blues added a structure that was not there before.
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In 2011, Kane was nominated for two Blues Music Awards by the Blues Foundation, BB King Entertainer of the Year, and Best Contemporary Blues Female. Kane was nominated for four Blues Music Awards, for the BB King Entertainer of the Year Award, Best Contemporary Blues CD for Superhero, and Best Contemporary Blues Female of 2010. She has won numerous awards, including the Best Blues Band award at the San Diego Music Awards seven times. Her other recent honors included Best Blues CD of 2005 at the San Diego Music Awards; the Trophees France International Award 2004 for Best International Blues Chanteuse and Artist of the Year.
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Jungle Blues is the fourth album by Australian Blues musician C. W. Stoneking. AT the ARIA Music Awards of 2009, he was notated for ARIA Award for Best Blues and Roots Album, ARIA Award for Best Independent Release, ARIA Award for Best Male Artist and ARIA Award for Best Cover Art, eventually winning 'Best Blues and Roots Album' for Jungle Blues. At the AIR Awards of 2009, Stoneking was nominated for Best Independent Album, Best Independent Blues/Roots Album, and Independent Artist of the Year, with Jungle Blues winning the award for Best Independent Blues/Roots Album. Jungle Blues was also shortlisted in the 2008 Australian Music Prize.
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Richard Trice (November 16, 1917 – April 6, 2000) was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He released two singles. He lived most of his life in his native North Carolina and played in its regional blues style, often referred to as Piedmont blues, East Coast blues, or more generally country blues.
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The Blues Train has hosted a range of blues acts including Chris Wilson (Australian musician), Jimi Hocking, Claude Hay, Ezra Lee (musician) and other blues acts.
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The Bradenton Blues Festival Weekend starts on December 6, 2019, with a free 'Blues Appetizer' concert. The Bradenton Blues Festival itself is scheduled for December 7.
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The mini teams are Under 10s Blues & Yellows and Under 9 Blues & Yellows.
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Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues. Cambridge University Press. p. 87. .
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Blues and Lasers is an American Delta blues rock band from Burlington, Vermont.
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Irene Scruggs, a Piedmont blues and country blues singer, was born in Lamont.
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Bergen Blues Band (1974 - 1984) was a Norwegian blues band from Bergen, Norway.
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Blues Piano: Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series, p.8. . Most common "blues scale" .
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The Blues Broers is a South African blues rock band formed in 1989.
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Anatolian blues or Turkish blues music is a type of music that is a combination of Turkish folk music and blues. Yavuz Çetin, Asım Can Gündüz and Can Gox are the most known singers and musicians in Anatolian blues music.
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The Very Best of The Blues Brothers is a 1995 greatest hits album by The Blues Brothers. It is one of several compilations of the band's recordings, following Best of The Blues Brothers (1981) and Dancin' wid da Blues Brothers (1983).
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Jeremiah Johnson (born 1972) is an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. His music blends elements of St. Louis blues, southern rock, and country. His 2016 album release, Blues Heart Attack, reached No. 5 in the Billboard Blues Albums Chart.
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Temple began recording songs such as "The Evil Devil Blues" and "Lead Pencil Blues" in 1935. His most popular record, "Louise Louise Blues," released by Decca Records, was a hit in 1936.Santelli, Robert (2001). The Big Book of Blues.
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"W.C. Handy, 'the Father of the Blues', codified this blues form to help musicians communicate chord changes."Fruteland (2002), p. 18 Many variations are possible. The length of sections may be varied to create eight-bar blues or sixteen-bar blues.
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However, her propensity to speed up the tempo on recordings did not continue, and she missed out on the subsequent development of swing and rhythm and blues, which may have better suited her style. Two alternate versions of "Worried Down with the Blues" plus her "Hurry Sundown Blues," "Climbing Mountain Blues," "Landlady's Footsteps," "Winter Blues," and "Kokola Blues" were included on the compilation album Female Blues Singers, Vol. 5: C/D/E (1921–1928), released in 1997 by Document Records.
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Ma Rainey (1886–1939) was one of the earliest known American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record. Classic female blues was an early form of blues music popular in the 1920s. An amalgam of traditional folk blues and urban theater music, the style is also known as vaudeville blues. Classic blues songs performed by female vocalists were accompanied by pianists or small jazz ensembles, and were the first blues to be recorded.
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There he recorded the songs "Goose Hill Woman Blues", "Married Man Blues", "Short Dress Blues" and "Third Street Woman Blues" under the name 'Blind Willie Reynolds' for Victor Records. However, only two of these songs were released, on a single 78rpm record. The recordings of "Goose Hill Woman Blues" and "Short Dress Blues" are thought to be lost forever. The song "Outside Woman Blues" would later find fame when it was recorded by Cream for their 1967 album, Disraeli Gears.
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Even though released in September 2018, Prime Blues finished as the 16th most played Contemporary Blues album for 2018 according to RMR. Prime Blues was a Silver Medal Winner in the Global Music Awards in 2018. Two Bad Dreams from the album Prime Blues won second place in the International Songwriting Competition in the Blues category from over 19,000 entries. Give It Up the first track from Prime Blues was a finalist in the 2018 UK Songwriting Contest in the Jazz/Blues category.
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Five songs – "Frisco Blues", "Overall Blues", "Man Man Man", "Black Horse Blues", and "Try Me Man Blues" – were not released at the time. Of those that were released, the liner notes for New Deal Blues, noted that Scott's composition "Fire-Wood Man" was a twelve-bar blues recorded in standard C tuning, while stating that "such philosophical observations as man having 'his mind filled with foolishness and his feets are made of clay' are not generally encountered in blues lyrics." Equally the liner notes for another compilation album, claimed Scott's version of "Red Cross Blues", was one of the least commercially successful. Few highway based blues songs were recorded in the 1920s and early 1930s, with Scott's "Highway No. 2 Blues" being one of the earliest.
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"I made this!" By Tim Schuller Dallas Observer October 23, 1997 35. "Blues Bothers" By Tim Schuller Dallas Observer February 26, 1998 36. "Behind the Lines" By Tim Schuller Dallas Observer January 22, 1998 37. "Blues in '97" By Tim Schuller Dallas Observer January 8, 1998 38. "Roadshows" By Tim Schuller Dallas Observer March 5, 1998 Juke Blues 39. "The Metroplex Blues" By Tim Schuller Juke Blues No. 9 Summer 1987, p. 22 40. "The Boston Smith Story" By Tim Schuller Juke Blues No. 12 Spring 1988, pps. 20–22 41. "Alex Moore" (Whistlin' Alex Moore) By Tim Schuller Juke Blues No. 16 Summer 1989, p. 35 42. "Zu Zu Bollin" By Tim Schuller Juke Blues No. 22 Winter–Spring 1991 43. "R.L. Griffin: The Renaissance Man of South Dallas" (blues singer Raymond Lewis Griffin) By Tim Schuller Juke Blues No. 28 Spring 1993, pps. 14–16 44. "Magnum Force Blues: The Smokin' Joe Kubek Band Featuring Bnois King" By Tim Schuller Juke Blues No. 28 Spring 1993, p. 16 Blues Access 45. "Jimmy Rogers: Not Giving Up on the Blues" (Jimmy Rogers) By Tim Schuller Blues Access Spring 1991 46. "Cleveland's Finest Goes on Record" By Tim Schuller Blues Access No. 6 Summer 1991, pps. 22–26 47.
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Alec Seward (born Alexander T. Seward, March 16, 1901 – May 11, 1972) was an American Piedmont blues and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. Some of his records were released under pseudonyms, such as Guitar Slim, Blues Servant Boy, King Blues and Georgia Slim. His best-remembered recordings are "Creepin' Blues" and "Some People Say".
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In 2013, he won the Blues Music Award for the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, Soul Blues Male Artist and Soul Shot won Soul Blues Album of the Year. In 2013, Salgado was nominated for a Blues Music Award in four separate categories. In 2017, Salgado won three Blues Music Awards in different categories.
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Local hockey tenants include the St. Louis AAA Blues and Lady Blues elite programs, the Blues' affiliated disabled hockey teams (DASA Blues Sled Hockey, Gateway Locomotives Special Hockey, and Blues Blind Hockey), the St. Louis Lady Cyclones girls' hockey club, and in-house programs such as learn-to-skate, learn-to-play, and recreational leagues.
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Mary Johnson (March 29, 1898 or 1900 – July 20, 1983) was an American classic female blues singer, accordionist and songwriter. Her most noted tracks are "Dream Daddy Blues" and "Western Union Blues." She wrote several of the songs she recorded, including "Barrel House Flat Blues", "Key to the Mountain Blues" and "Black Men Blues." Johnson worked with Peetie Wheatstraw, Tampa Red, Kokomo Arnold and Roosevelt Sykes, among others.
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' This was followed a few months later by 'Baby Seal Blues', a negligible item by the black vaudeville performer Arthur 'Baby' Seals and ragtime pianist Arthur Matthews." Neither, however, were genuine blues songs.Charters, The Country Blues, pp. 34–35: "The first was Hart Wand's 'Dallas Blues,' published in March; the second was Arthur Seals's 'Baby Seals' Blues,' published in August; Handy finally brought out his blues in September.
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In 2015, he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Research grant to research the blues at six major U.S. universities. In 2015, he received the Keeping the Blues Alive award for blues education by the Blues Foundation. This organization presents the KBA Awards to individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to blues music. The KBA ceremony is held in conjunction with the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee.
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"Black Angel Blues", also known as "Sweet Black Angel" or "Sweet Little Angel", is a blues standard that has been recorded by numerous blues and other artists. The song was first recorded in 1930 by Lucille Bogan, one of the classic female blues singers. Bogan recorded it as a mid-tempo, twelve-bar blues, featuring her vocal with piano accompaniment. In 1934, Tampa Red recorded "Black Angel Blues" for Vocalion Records.
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Blues from the Gutter is the first album by blues musician Champion Jack Dupree.
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The Melbourne University Sports Association awards Blues and Half-Blues for significant sporting achievement.
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"Blues fiddle" is a generic term for bowed, stringed instruments played on the arm or shoulder that are used to play blues music. Since no blues artists played violas, the term is synonymous with violin, and blues players referred to their instruments as "fiddle" and "violin". While unequivocally an African- American creation, with the rising popularity of the blues, violinists in the Anglo-American dance fiddling traditions and white country fiddlers, adopted stylistic elements and added songs from the blues to their repertoire. Blues violin features most prominently in rural blues, string-band, jug band and jazz.
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Likewise, in 2017 the Chicago Blues Fest celebrated the 40th anniversary of Billy Branch and the SOBs. Branch annually appears at major festivals around the world, including the Montreux Blues Festival, the North Sea Blues Festival, the Cognac Blues Festivals and Long Beach Blues Festival, the Chicago Blues Festival, the San Francisco Blues Festival and the North Sea Jazz Festival. The current lineup of the Sons of Blues consists of Branch (harmonica and vocals), Andrew "Blaze" Thomas. (drums and vocals), Sumito Ariyoshi (keyboards and vocals), Marvin Little (bass and vocals), and Giles Corey (guitar and vocals).
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Mark Hummel live at the Silver Dollar - Toronto 2003 Mark Hummel (born December 15, 1955) is an American Grammy Award nominated and Blues Music Award winning blues harmonica player, vocalist, songwriter, and long-time bandleader of the Blues Survivors. Since 1991, Hummel has produced the Blues Harmonica Blowout tour, of which he is also a featured performer. The shows have featured blues harmonica players such as James Cotton, Carey Bell, John Mayall and Charlie Musselwhite. Although he is typically identified as performing West Coast blues, Hummel is also proficient in Delta blues, Chicago blues, swing and jazz styles.
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For Hubert Sumlin's About Them Shoes he received a 2005 Grammy nomination for "Best Blues Album" and won "Best Blues Album" at The Blues Music Awards in 2006.
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Those conditions inspired countless blues songs and could be described as the essence of blues singing.Paul Oliver (1969), The Story of the Blues, London: Barrie & Rockliff, p. 8.
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Estelle "Mama" Yancey (January 1, 1896 - April 19, 1986) was an American blues singer. She was nominated four times for Blues Music Awards as Traditional Blues Female Artist.
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A blues bar in Atlanta is named after McTell and regularly features blues musicians and bands. The Blind Willie McTell Blues Festival is held annually in Thomson, Georgia.
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Engedalen is one of the most established blues musicians in Norway, and often performs with Margit Bakken as the duo Women in Blues. She won the blues category of the Spelleman Award in 2006. She won the 2nd European Blues Challenge in 2012.
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Juno Awards website Foley has also earned seventeen Maple Blues Awards and three Trophees de Blues de France. She has also garnered several nominations at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis, Tennessee."24th Annual W.C. Handy Blues Awards Nominees". Billboard, January 21, 2003.
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A display of historical blues instruments, posters, and sheet music. Blues is a music genreKunzler's dictionary of jazz provides two separate entries: "blues", and the "blues form", a widespread musical form (p. 131). Kunzler, Martin (1988). Jazz-Lexicon. Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag.
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Wagner personally selects each song played on each show, and does not use a pre-programmed computerized playlist. The show follows a free-form radio style that highlights his knowledge of early blues, contemporary blues, blues rock, and independent blues artists. In addition to being broadcast from Long Beach, California, Nothin' But The Blues is streamed online.
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Back Alley John's recordings were subject to significant critical acclaim. By 1998, he was considered to have become one of the finest blues recording artists in North America. In 1999, he was a "Canadian Real Blues Award" winner, cited by Real Blues Magazine as the Best Canadian Unsigned Talent.Canadian Real Blues Awards Winners, Loose Blues News, 1999; www.torontobluessociety.com.
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"Killing Floor" is a 1964 song by American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Howlin' Wolf. Called "one of the defining classics of Chicago electric blues", "Killing Floor" became a blues standard with recordings by various artists. It has been acknowledged by the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame, which noted its popularity among rock as well as blues musicians.
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Her live album, Blues Power: Trudy's Blues (2004), had guitar work by Carl Weathersby. One of her most recent outputs was I'm Still Here, released in May 2006. It was recorded with the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra. I'm Still Here was nominated for a Blues Music Award in 2007 in the 'Best Soul Blues Album' category.
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"Worried Life Blues" is a blues standard and one of the most recorded blues songs of all time. Originally recorded by Big Maceo Merriweather in 1941, "Worried Life Blues" was an early blues hit and Maceo's most recognized song. An earlier song inspired it and several artists have had record chart successes with their interpretations of the song.
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Canadian blues festivals range from small, community-based festivals that feature mostly local performers to major corporate-sponsored festivals that draw nationally and internationally prominent blues bands and huge crowds. Some of the large festivals include the Ottawa Bluesfest, Bluesfest Windsor, the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Tremblant International Blues Festival in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec and the Edmonton's Labatt Blues Festival. These festivals, which are usually organized by volunteer-based blues societies, are an important part of the Canadian blues scene.
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The twelve-track Wild & Free contained Chambers self-penned song "Reality" plus her cover of Katie Melua's "Piece by Piece". Subsequently, Chambers appeared at music festivals in South America, Europe and the US (the latter including Minnesota Bayfront Blues Festival, Las Vegas Blues Bender, Gloucester Blues Festival, and the Mississippi Delta Blues Festival). In 2018, this led to her being nominated again for a Blues Music Award. Chambers won a Blues Music Award in 2019 in the 'Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year' category.
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John Lee Hooker, whose visit to England was the anticipated R&B; event of 1964, shown in 1978R. F. Schwartz, How Britain Got the Blues: the Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), , p. 154. Early British rhythm and blues bands like Blues Incorporated found that folk clubs would not accept amplified blues performances.R. F. Schwartz, How Britain Got the Blues: the Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), , p. 126.
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See also: String band, Jug band, Memphis blues, Piedmont blues, Hill country blues, and Fife and drum blues Country blues is some the earliest types of blues to be known. Country blues artists from Tennessee include Memphis Jug Band, The Two Poor Boys, Howard Armstrong, Yank Rachell, Sleepy John Estes, Hammie Nixon, Son Bonds, Noah Lewis, Deford Bailey, John Henry Barbee, Memphis Willie B., Hattie Hart, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Brownie McGhee, Blind James Campbell, Hambone Willie Newbern, Sonny Boy Williamson I, and Terry Garland.
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State Line Blues was the fourth best Independent Blues Release in the United States by Real Blues Magazine. Tales From A 2 Lane was selected as the Blues Album of the Year by the Kentucky Blues Society, a "Pick to Click" by XM Satellite Radio Bluesville (Channel 74), which kept Jetton originals "Waffle House Woman" and "I Been Cheated" on their hot playlist throughout most of 2006. Tales From A 2 Lane was also selected one of the top Independent Blues Releases by Real Blues Magazine.
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"Cocaine Habit Blues"/"Take a Whiff on Me" :Another song is often known as “Cocaine Blues” but is completely different; it also known, in its different versions, as “Take a Whiff on Me” and “Cocaine Habit Blues”. This song has three families of variants. "Cocaine Blues"/"Coco Blues" :One of the most familiar, usually known as "Cocaine Blues," is Reverend Gary Davis’s arrangement, an eight-bar blues in C Major. Davis said that he learned the song in 1905 from a traveling carnival musician, Porter Irving.
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Prime Blues reached the #1 Top Blues Album on the Roots Music Report which tracks American Roots Music radio airplay in 2018. It entered the RMR charts on October 6, 2018, charting in at #35. Since Oct 13, 2018, Prime Blues has remained in the top 10 Blues Albums according to RMR and as of January 12th, 2019 was the #2 Blues album and #1 Contemporary Blues album. As of May 20, 2019, Prime Blues has been on the Roots Music Report chart for 33 weeks.
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In Nothing but the Blues. p. 380. commented on political issues such as racism or Vietnam War issues, which was unusual for this period. His album Alabama Blues contained a song with the following lyric: Texas blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan White audiences' interest in the blues during the 1960s increased due to the Chicago-based Paul Butterfield Blues Band featuring guitarist Michael Bloomfield, and the British blues movement. The style of British blues developed in the UK, when bands such as the Animals, Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, the supergroup Cream and the Irish musician Rory Gallagher performed classic blues songs from the Delta or Chicago blues traditions.
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In the 1990s, the largely ignored hill country blues gained minor recognition in both blues and alternative rock music circles with northern Mississippi artists R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. Blues performers explored a range of musical genres, as can be seen, for example, from the broad array of nominees of the yearly Blues Music Awards, previously named W.C. Handy Awards or of the Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary and Traditional Blues Album. The Billboard Blues Album chart provides an overview of current blues hits. Contemporary blues music is nurtured by several blues labels such as: Alligator Records, Ruf Records, Severn Records, Chess Records (MCA), Delmark Records, NorthernBlues Music, Fat Possum Records and Vanguard Records (Artemis Records).
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The Bakerton Group is an instrumental blues jam band and the side project of the blues rock outfit Clutch. They incorporate elements of blues-rock, psychedelic rock, and jazz.
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All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues is a non- fiction, encyclopedic referencing of blues music compiled under the direction of All Media Guide.
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Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra (also known as Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra) is a rhythm and blues band led by boogie-woogie pianist Jools Holland.
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Bowling is the frontman of the British blues band Doc Bowling and his Blues Professors.
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Oooh So Good 'n Blues is the sixth studio American blues album by Taj Mahal.
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Dancing the Blues is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal released in 1993.
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In 2012, Wood's album Blues Gone Wild was shortlisted for OffBeat 's Best Blues Album.
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King is known as the pioneer of rap/blues fusion. He conceived the first sample-based blues concept album in the early 1990s by writing and producing the first all-rap/blues album for RCA Records titled 21st Century Blues… from da Hood. As an entrepreneur King took control of his master recordings in the early 1990s, forming 21st Century Blues Records. He also established a publishing company, Young Blues Rebel, LLC.
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A number of national and regionally noted blues musicians are from Leland. There are five Mississippi Blues Trail markers in Leland commemorating the small town's significant contribution to blues history. Highway 61, mentioned in numerous blues recordings, runs through the town and gives its name to the community's blues museum. Leland is the burial place of the folk artist and blues musician James "Son" Thomas, who lived for many years near the railroad tracks.
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However, the poem is a celebration of blues. In lines eleven, fourteen and sixteen there are apostrophes to the blues. “O Blues!” and “Sweet Blues” are the speaker's exclamations of delight. He just cannot contain himself when it comes to the blues. He even notices the musician enjoying the music and adds the onomatopoeia of a “thump, thump, thump.” The Weary Blues is an enjoyable poem and song, yet its message is one of sadness.
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Sue Foley (born March 29, 1968) is a Canadian blues singer and guitarist. She has released 15 albums since her debut with Young Girl Blues (1992). In May 2020, Foley won her first Blues Music Award, in the 'Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female)' category.
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As well as writing and performing, he also teaches guitar and has released his own instructional DVD, and has hosted blues radio shows Blues Highway and Nothin' but the Blues (1999 to 2004), and was the voice for the Blues Showcase of Continental Airlines.
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Drink Small (born January 28, 1933) is an American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is known as the Blues Doctor and has been influenced by gospel and country music and by the blues guitarist and singer Blind Boy Fuller.
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All Music Guide to the Blues also includes 30 essays covering different styles of blues, along with "top lists" and extensive charts on the evolution and lineage of the blues.
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In 2006, Cotton was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame at a ceremony conducted by the Blues Foundation in Memphis. He has won or shared ten Blues Music Awards.
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"Dallas Blues Survival" By Tim Schuller Blues Access No. 10 Summer 1992, pps. 6–10 48. "R.L. Griffin" By Tim Schuller Blues Access No. 10 Summer 1992, pps. 8 49.
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Much of his work has appeared on the compilation albums Country Blues Classics, Volume 1, Georgia Blues 1927–1930, Some Cold, Rainy Day, and Bottleneck Blues Guitar Classics 1926–37.
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The classic female blues singers were pioneers in the record industry, as they were among the first black singers and blues artists who were recorded. They were also instrumental in popularizing the 12-bar blues throughout the US. Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886–1939), known as the "Mother of the Blues", is credited as the first to perform the blues on stage as popular entertainment when she began incorporating blues into her act of show songs and comedy around 1902.Stewart- Baxter, Derrick. Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers.
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In 2015, Rush was inducted into the Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame. In 2017, Rush won a Blues Music Award for Album of the Year for "Porcupine Meat" and for Historical Album of the Year for Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History of Bobby Rush. These were the eleventh and twelfth Blues Music Awards Rush has been awarded by the Blues Foundation during his career. He gained his 13th Blues Music Award in 2020, this time in the 'Soul Blues Album of the Year' category for Sitting on Top of the Blues.
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Christoffer "Kid" Andersen (born January 15, 1980) is a blues guitarist from Herre, Norway. By age 11, Andersen had gained the attention of Norwegian blues guitar teacher, Morten Omlid, who steered him towards traditional blues music. In 2001, at age 21, Andersen moved to the United States, joined blues frontman Terry Hanck's band, and quickly became a figure on the West Coast blues scene. Andersen later played in Charlie Musselwhite's band and got a Blues Music Award (formerly W.C. Handy Award) for best contemporary blues album for Charlie Musselwhite's Delta Hardware.
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"Outside Woman Blues" is a blues song originally recorded by Blind Joe Reynolds in 1929. It is one of few known recordings made by Reynolds, who used "Woman Blues" in several song titles, including "Cold Woman Blues", "Goose Hill Woman Blues", and "Third Street Woman Blues". In 1967, the song was popularized by the British rock group Cream, who recorded a blues rock adaptation in 1967 for the album Disraeli Gears, with vocals by Eric Clapton. Live recordings appear on BBC Sessions and Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005.
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The members of the Blues Foundation, a nonprofit organization set up in Memphis, Tennessee, to foster the blues and its heritage, have nominated James for a Blues Music Award nearly every year since its founding in 1980; and she received some form of Blues Female Artist of the Year award 14 times since 1989, continuously from 1999 to 2007. Her albums Life, Love, & the Blues (1999), Burnin' Down the House (2003), and Let's Roll (2004) were awarded Soul/Blues Album of the Year, and in 2001 she was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
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He actively promotes creative writing of blues texts and poetry at Blues Poetic Café at the international Rawa Blues Festival which is held annually in Katowice, Poland. Kossek founded the European Academic Blues Center at the Academy of Business in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland, which researches all aspects of the blues as a cultural phenomenon, and the Ethnic Studies Center in Katowice, Poland. Kossek has been involved in organizing educational conferences and seminars focusing on the blues. He hosts a weekly, blues-oriented radio show every Sunday at 96.2 FM on Radio Silesia.
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Encyclopedia of Jazz, Vol. 1 #"Blues for Eileen" #"C Jam Blues" #"O.G.D. (Road Song)" #"St. Louis Blues" #"I Remember Bird" #"John Brown's Blues" Oliver Nelson: The Argo, Verve and Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions (CD 2) #"St. Louis Blues" - 6:10 #"I Remember Bird" - 6:28 #"Ricardo's Dilemma" - 2:33 #"Patterns for Orchestra" - 3:13 #"The Sidewalks of New York" [aka "East Side, West Side"] - 6:30 #"Greensleeves" - 2:28 #"John Brown's Blues" - 3:22 #"Twelve Tone Blues" - 3:06 Recorded on November 3 (#1-4) and November 4 (#5-8), 1966.
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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues – Taj Mahal is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal.
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"My Baby Left Me" is a rhythm and blues song written by blues singer Arthur Crudup.
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The song became a blues standard and has been recorded by numerous blues and other artists.
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Rooster Blues is an American independent record label founded in 1980. The label is dedicated to blues music from the Mississippi Delta. Rooster Blues was co-founded by Jim O'Neal in Chicago, and initially released 14 albums by South Side blues musicians. In 1986, O'Neal moved the label to Clarksdale, Mississippi and began focusing on the area's Delta blues performers.
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Oliver, "Blues" The typical harmonic structure of Blues, as identified by New Grove, is the twelve-bar blues. Because blues is based on improvisation, having a common and familiar chord progression lends itself to an easier improvisation. Not every blues progression is exactly the same, but this one in particular is very common, and Barber uses this progression almost exactly.
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She started learning and studying traditional country blues guitar in 1978. Valerie and her spouse, Benedict Turner, are an acoustic blues duo called Piedmont Blūz. They specialize in Piedmont blues music, but also perform music from the Delta blues tradition. Benedict and Valerie are ambassadors of historic blues music, and educate their audiences about this early tradition and its artists.
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Blues festivals are music festivals which focus on blues music. Blues is a genreKunzler's dictionary of Jazz provides two separate entries: blues, an originally African-American genre (p.128), and the blues form, a widespread musical form (p.131). and musical form that originated in African-American communities in the Southern United States around the end of the 19th century.
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Down Beat magazine critics' Poll named Taylor's Truth is Not Fiction as Blues CD of the Year for 2002. Liri Blues fest., Italy, in 2010 Otis Taylor in San Diego 2006 Living Blues readers' poll awarded Taylor (along with Etta James) the "Best Blues Entertainer" title in 2004. Down Beat named Taylor's Double V as Blues CD of the Year for 2005.
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The first publication of blues sheet music may have been "I Got the Blues", published by New Orleans musician Antonio Maggio in 1908 and described as "the earliest published composition known to link the condition of having the blues to the musical form that would become popularly known as 'the blues.'"Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff, ""They Cert'ly Sound Good to Me": Sheet Music, Southern Vaudeville, and the Commercial Ascendancy of the Blues", American Music, Vol. 14, No. 4, New Perspectives on the Blues (Winter, 1996), p.406 Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" was published in 1912; W.C. Handy's "The Memphis Blues" followed in the same year.
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The Arkansas Delta is known for its rich musical heritage. While defined primarily by its deep blues/gospel roots, it is distinguished somewhat from its Mississippi Delta counterpart by more intricately interwoven country music and R&B; elements. Arkansas blues musicians have defined every genre of blues from its inception, including ragtime, hokum, country blues, Delta blues, boogie-woogie, jump blues, Chicago blues, and blues-rock. Eastern Arkansas' predominantly African-American population in cities such as Helena, West Memphis, Pine Bluff, Brinkley, Cotton Plant, Forrest City and others has provided a fertile backdrop of juke joints, clubs and dance halls which have so completely nurtured this music.
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Rick Fowler is an American blues-rock guitarist originally from Bowdon, Georgia. He learned to play guitar primarily by listening to early British blues and rock guitarists and American blues players.
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Accessed February 2010. was an American blues singer and guitarist, mainly based in Indianapolis. He is best known for his recordings "Walkin' Blues" and "Bad Luck Blues".Thedeadrockstarsclub.com. Accessed February 2010.
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Jo Ann Kelly (5 January 1944 – 21 October 1990) was an English blues singer and guitarist. She is respected for her strong blues vocal style and for playing country blues guitar.
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Bloom, Ken (2003). Broadway: An Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Routledge. . By the end of that year, his most successful songs had been published: "Memphis Blues", "Beale Street Blues", and "Saint Louis Blues".
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"Northern blues package a meaty meal". Edmonton Journal, December 8, 1991. It was one of the first significant compilations of the work of Canadian blues artists."Mining for great Canadian blues".
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In 1992, Leonard became one of the founding members of the Fathead Canadian blues band. In 1995, he received his first award with the Fathead band, the West Coast Blues Award, for Top Canadian Blues Recording. Then in 1997 the band received both the Jazz Report Award, for Blues Group of the Year and the Maple Blues Award for Electric Act of the Year. Leonard is a Maple Blues Award winner as guitarist of the year and a Juno Award winner with the Fathead band for their album, Blues Weather receiving both in 1999 in that same year, the Fathead band won two more awards, the Maple Blues Award for, Electric Act of the Year and the Jazz Report Award for, Blues Group of the Year.
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I am pleased Nighthawk's > imprint on the blues scene, which is still heard through the tunes of > modern-day blues artists, will be recognized with his inclusion on the > Mississippi Blues Trail. "Friar's Point" is a song on blues musician Susan Tedeschi's 1998 album Just Won't Burn.
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Maggie Jones (born March 1894; date of death unknown) was an American blues singer and pianist who recorded thirty-eight songs between 1923 and 1926. She was billed as "The Texas Nightingale". Among her best-remembered songs are "Single Woman's Blues", "Undertaker's Blues", and "Northbound Blues".
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In addition, Portrait won the Living Blues Critics' Poll as Best Album. He is co- editor with Amy van Singel of the book, The Voice of the Blues: Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine (Routledge, 2002, ). O'Neal was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2002.
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He also wrote Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary (2009), co-wrote R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz and Country (2006), and wrote many articles and liner notes on pre-war blues music. "Noted Pre-War Blues Scholar Stephen Calt Dead At 62", GuitarInstructor.com, October 19, 2010.
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On September 1, 2017, Rayford released his latest album, The World That We Live In. On January 9, 2018, Rayford was nominated for four Blues Music Awards for the 39th annual Blues Music Awards. These included 'Soul Blues Album', for The World That We Live In, plus 'Soul Blues Male Artist', 'Instrumentalist - Vocals', and 'B.B. King Entertainer'. At the 40th Blues Music Awards in 2019, Rayford was named as 'Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year'.
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Red, White & Blues is the eighth album by The Blues Brothers, released in 1992. It is their first studio album, other than the soundtracks from the movies The Blues Brothers (1980) and Blues Brothers 2000 (1999). It is also the only album that contains original material, such as "Red, White & Blues", "Take You and Show You" and "Can't Play the Blues (In an Air-Conditioned Room)". The album was recorded at the Power Station studio in New York.
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Subsequently, he recorded three videotapes on blues piano, audio tapes on blues, rock and ragtime piano, and a separate instructional package on blues piano, David Bennett Cohen Teaches Blues Piano, Volumes I and II. He also recorded two guitar instruction albums for Kicking Mule Records. During the 1990s, he toured with the musical Rent, playing guitar and keyboards. He also recorded with the Bill Perry Blues Band, and toured as part of blues musician Bobby Kyle's band.
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In 2013, the Blues Foundation honored Telarc with its 2013 Keeping the Blues Alive (KBA) Award. Every year the Blues Foundation presents the KBA Awards to individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to blues music. The KBA ceremony was held in conjunction with the 29th International Blues Challenge (IBC). The KBAs are awarded on the basis of merit by a select panel of blues professionals to those working to actively promote and document the music.
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One of the first professional blues singers was Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, who claimed to have coined the term blues. Classic female urban or vaudeville blues singers were popular in the 1920s, among them Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Victoria Spivey. Mamie Smith, more a vaudeville performer than a blues artist,Palmer, p. 106 was the first African-American to record a blues in 1920; her "Crazy Blues" sold over 75,000 copies in its first month.
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The Blues Band onstage in 2012 Suzy Starlite and Simon Campbell of the Starlite Campbell Band onstage in 2018 Although overshadowed by the growth of rock music the blues did not disappear in Britain, with American bluesmen like John Lee Hooker, Eddie Taylor, and Freddie King continuing to be well received in the UK and an active home scene led by figures including Dave Kelly and his sister Jo Ann Kelly, who helped keep the acoustic blues alive on the British folk circuit.Year of the Blues , retrieved 20 July 2009. Dave Kelly was also a founder of The Blues Band with former Manfred Mann members Paul Jones and Tom McGuinness, Hughie Flint and Gary Fletcher. The Blues Band was credited with kicking off a second blues boom in Britain, which by the 90s led to festivals all around the country, including The Swanage Blues Festival, The Burnley National Blues Festival, The Gloucester Blues and Heritage Festival and The Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival at Colne.
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While in Denmark on tour, Latz appeared on all 3 national TV networks within a 1-week span. Latz has performed at festivals including, Ain’t Nuttin But the Blues Fest, Summerfest, Lil Bear Ribfest, Northwest Ohio Rib-Off, Urbana Blues Brews and BBQ Festival, Ozark Blues Fest, Blues Bandits and BBQ Festival, TX State Fair, Bloomin Days, Blues Café, Oak Creek Lion’s Fest, Great American Biker Rally, Round Lake Beach Fest, St. Fabien’s Festival, The PRS Experience, Dallas Guitar Show, Bamfest, Prairie Dog Blues Fest, Lakefront Art Fest, Steel Bridge Songfest, IL Blues Fest, Harley’s 105th Birthday Celebration, Paramount Blues Festival, WI State Fair, NAMM, Children of Fallen Riders Fest, Ruben’s Run, Westmont Blues Fest (Muddy Water's Blues Fest), Northbrook Days, WI Harley Rally, WI/IL Border Rally, Sun Prairie Blues Fest, Jimi Hendrix's 67th Birthday Bash in Times Square and Co-Headlined The Stevie Ray Vaughan Ride and Concert in Dallas, TX.
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Freddie Brooks is an American singer-songwriter and blues harmonica player. A native of Wichita, Kansas, he started performing on the Southern California blues scene in 1989. He played West Coast blues.
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Miami Herald: 2K. April 17, 1988. In 1980, King of the Delta Blues Singers became the first album to be inducted by the Blues Foundation into the Blues Hall of Fame.Bragg, Rick.
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Castro Coleman aka "Mr. Sipp The Mississippi Blues Child" (born August 25, 1976) is an American blues and gospel singer, musician, songwriter and guitarist. He was the 2014 International Blues Challenge winner.
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William Arthur Gaither (April 21, 1910 - October 30, 1970), sometimes known as "Little Bill" Gaither or Leroy's Buddy,e.g., Decca 7818: Racket Blues / Wintertime Blues was an American blues guitarist and singer.
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Texas blues is blues music from Texas. As a regional style, its original form was characterized by jazz and swing influences. Later examples are often closer to blues rock and Southern rock.
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Blues Roots was reissued by BGO Records in 2012 on the compilation CD Blues Roots/Bad Dreams.
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Jonathan Cape, 1979. and Oxbridge Blues and other stories (1980).Raphael, Frederic. Oxbridge Blues: And Other Stories.
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In 2010, Cyndi Lauper recorded "Rollin' and Tumblin" with Ann Peebles for her blues album Memphis Blues.
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Live at B.B. King Blues Club is a 2007 album by English blues rock band the Yardbirds.
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In 2016, Primer won a Blues Music Award as the 'Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year'.
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Altman is a blues guitarist, performing with the all-chef band "Back Burner Blues" for charity events.
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Junior Chamber International Kadaplamattom Blues Central (JCI Kadaplamattom Blues Central) is the first international organization in Kadaplamattom.
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Piedmont blues was popular in the early 20th century. Below is a list of Piedmont blues musicians.
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At blues jams, the house band typically plays twelve bar blues and other blues song forms that are well-known for the session participants to solo over. At blues jams, the guitar solo, typically played on electric guitar through an overdriven guitar amp, is an important type of solo.
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His latest album, Hold On, was released in October 2018. It reached number 12 in the Living Blues radio chart, and entered at number 15 in the US Billboard Blues Albums chart. It was nominated in 2019 for a Blues Music Award in the 'Contemporary Blues Album' category.
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The Cameo Blues Band is a Toronto-based blues band, originally formed in 1978. It is particularly notable for its association with several of Canada's leading blues singers, including Richard "Hock" Walsh, Tony Flaim and Chuck Jackson, all of whom were also associated with the Downchild Blues Band.
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Living Blues noted that "E.C. Scott must be ranked among the best of the promising female blues singers in recent years." Hard Act to Follow duly followed in 1998. Scott received a nomination for a Blues Music Award in 1999 for 'Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year'.
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48 18. "Dallas Blues: R.L. Griffin" (blues singer and club owner Robert Lewis Griffin; born 1939) By Tim Schuller Living Blues No. 129 September–October 1996, pps. 42–46 19. "The Second Coming of Bobby Patterson" (Bobby Patterson) By Tim Schuller Living Blues No. 139 May–June 1998, pps.
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Mikael Santana (born December 31, 1957) is an American blues harmonica player and singer-songwriter, who blends the Chicago blues style with jump blues and West Coast swing. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Shirley Horn sang both jazz and blues. Nina Simone sang jazz, folk and Rhythm and blues. Etta Jones sang rhythm and blues and jazz. Anita O'Day is known for her contributions to Bebop.
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Presumed Innocent is the 2001 breakthrough album of Marcia Ball. It spent seven months on the Billboard blues chart and won the 2002 W.C. Handy Blues Award for Blues Album of the Year.
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Monaghan Leisure Complex, built in 2005. Monaghan continues to host one of Ireland's most prestigious and established blues festivals,Monaghan Post, 6 September 2007. "Who's Behind the Blues? " the Harvest Time Blues Festival.
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In 2014, Bell won a Blues Music Award for his track "Blues in my Soul", in the 'Song of the Year' category. He was nominated for a similar award in four other categories. In 2015, Bell won a Blues Music Award in the 'Traditional Blues Male Artist' category. Bell's 2016 album, Can't Shake This Feeling, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.
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"Messin' with the Kid" is a rhythm and blues-influenced blues song originally recorded by Junior Wells in 1960. Chief Records owner/songwriter/producer Mel London is credited as the songwriter. Considered a blues standard, it is Junior Wells's best-known song. "Messin' with the Kid" was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and has been recorded by a variety of blues and other artists.
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On December 31, 2012, she appeared in the UK on BBC Two's Jools Holland Annual Hootenanny. In 2013 and 2014, LaVette was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the 'Contemporary Blues Female Artist' category. LaVette's album Worthy was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2016 for Best Blues Album. In 2016, LaVette won a Blues Music Award as the Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year.
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A Peavey Delta Blues 115 guitar amplifier The Peavey Delta Blues 115 is a guitar amplifier produced by Peavey Electronics. It is a tube amplifier designed for Blues musicians. The name is inspired by the Delta blues, an early style of blues music that originated in the Mississippi Delta. The 15 inch speaker is part of its distinctive mid-range and low end sound.
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The Monarchs were sold and relocated to the Century Arena in Fort Garry in 1978 and adopted a new name, the Fort Garry Blues. The team rebranded itself as the Winnipeg South Blues in 1984. The Blues captured six league championships while playing out of Fort Garry. The Blues moved into the new MTS Iceplex in 2010 and shortened their name to the Winnipeg Blues.
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Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi attended one of their performances and subsequently asked Murphy to join the touring band of The Blues Brothers. Murphy appeared in the films The Blues Brothers (1980) and Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), playing the husband of Aretha Franklin. He performed with the Blues Brothers Band until the early 2000s. Murphy was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2012.
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In the folk tradition, there are many traditional blues verses that have been sung over and over by many artists. Blues singers, who include many country and folk artists as well as those commonly identified with blues singers, use these traditional lyrics to fill out their blues performances. Artists like Jimmie Rodgers, the "blue yodeler", and Big Joe Turner, "the Boss of the Blues" compiled virtual encyclopedias of lyrics. Turner reputedly could sing the blues for hours without repeating himself.
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She undertook the second leg of her 2017 European tour with Ruf Records' Blues Caravan. Collier also teaches around 30 students at her own studio and is active in the Blues Foundation's 'Blues in the Schools' programs. In 2018, Collier was nominated in two categories at that year's Blues Music Awards; 'Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year' and 'Instrumental – Horn Player of the Year'. She released her third album Honey Up in July 2018 at the Briggs Farm Blues Festival.
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She won the "Rising Star - Blues Artist" in Down Beat magazine's critics poll announced in the December 2009 issue. Copeland participated in the Efes Pilsen Blues Festival in 2009. On June 12, 2011 at the 2011 Chicago Blues Festival, Copeland was presented Koko Taylor's crown, and officially given the honor as the new "Queen of the Blues" by Koko Taylor's daughter, Cookie Taylor. In 2013, Copeland was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the Contemporary Blues Female Artist' category.
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Texas Blues is a subgenre of the blues, and of course is not limited to Texas- based musicians. It has had various style variations but typically has been played with more swing than other blues styles. Texas blues differs from styles such as Chicago blues in use of instruments and sounds, especially the heavy use of the guitar. Musicians such as Stevie Ray Vaughan contributed by using various types of guitar sounds like southern slide guitar and different melodies of blues and jazz.
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Electric blues refers to any type of blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments. The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T-Bone Walker in the late 1930s and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters in the 1940s. Their styles developed into West Coast blues, Detroit blues, and post-World War II Chicago blues, which differed from earlier, predominantly acoustic-style blues. By the early 1950s, Little Walter was a featured soloist on blues harmonica using a small hand-held microphone fed into a guitar amplifier.
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Wilson T. King is the alias of multi-instrumentalist/songwriter and producer Tim Wilson. He is the main exponent of the musical form he mentioned in his Blues Matters interview in May 2010, as "future blues." Both debut album, Follow Your First Mind and second release "Last of the Analogues" have received world-wide critical acclaim in such publications as Classic Rock, Guitar Player, Total Guitar, Blues Matters and "Blues Rock Magazine" . Wilson has caused debate amongst some in the blues/guitar community due to his comments about the state of modern blues; especially what he calls "karaoke blues" artists.
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Carr convinced Blackwell to record with him for Vocalion Records in 1928; the result was "How Long, How Long Blues", the biggest blues hit of that year. Blackwell also made solo recordings for Vocalion, including "Kokomo Blues", which was transformed into "Old Kokomo Blues" by Kokomo Arnold and later reworked as "Sweet Home Chicago" by Robert Johnson. Blackwell and Carr toured throughout the American Midwest and South between 1928 and 1935 as stars of the blues circuit, recording over 100 sides. "Prison Bound Blues" (1928), "Mean Mistreater Mama" (1934), and "Blues Before Sunrise" (1934) were popular tracks.
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The King Biscuit Flower Hour is a one-hour syndicated rock and roll radio program, the name of which was derived from King Biscuit Time. In 1986, the first annual King Biscuit Blues Festival (later renamed to Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival and returned to King Biscuit Blues Festival in 2011) was held in Helena, attracting thousands of blues aficionados from around the world. A magazine spin-off, King Biscuit Time edited by Donald Wilcock, has won several awards from the Blues Foundation, including the "Keeping the Blues Alive Award", and features interviews and biographies of major blues personalities.
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This second pressing claims that "On Doing an Evil Deed Blues", "In Christ There Is No East or West", "The Transcendental Waterfall", and "Uncloudy Day" are 1964 rerecordings and the rest ("St. Louis Blues", "Poor Boy Long Ways from Home", "John Henry", "Desperate Man Blues", "Sun Gonna Shine in My Back Door Someday Blues", and "Sligo River Blues") are the original 1959 versions. "Uncloudy Day" was actually the same recording, as was "St. Louis Blues" in an edited version. The 1959 album contained a version of Blind Blake's "West Coast Blues", which (despite being rerecorded in 1964) was not included on the album.
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Joe Asselin (born 1977, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States) is an American Chicago blues and electric blues musician based out of Champaign, Illinois. He has appeared on five releases with the Blues Music Award- nominated Kilborn Alley Blues Band, with three of them being produced by fellow blues musician Nick Moss at his Blue Bella Records label. He was also a part of the International Blues Challenge finalist group the Sugar Prophets from 2011-2013. More recently he has worked with several other Champaign-based local blues, rock, and country bands and released his own solo acoustic album Blue Genes in 2016.
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The Blues Foundation is an American nonprofit corporation, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, that is affiliated with more than 175 blues organizations from various parts of the world. Founded in 1980, a twenty-five person Board of Directors governs the foundation whose stated mission is to preserve blues heritage, celebrate blues recording and performance, expand worldwide awareness of the blues, and ensure the future of the uniquely American art form. On its formation, the foundation organized the annual W. C. Handy awards to "give recognition of the finest in blues performances and recordings." The awards have since been renamed The Blues Music Awards.
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Barry Kerzner, "Blues Today Music, Media & Health Summit to Discuss Musicians' Challenges," American Blues Scene, June 5, 2016.
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Miles performed at the Boundary Waters Blues Festival and, in 1996 and 2009, at the Sarasota Blues Fest.
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She has been nominated many times for the Toronto Blues Society's "Blues with a Feeling" Lifetime Achievement Award.
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The composition "Bifocal Blues" was originally called "Bitonal Blues" and humorously rechristened in honour of Brubeck's advanced age.
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The King Biscuit Blues Festival is an annual, multi-day blues festival, held in Helena, Arkansas, United States.
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Hesitation Blues is a compilation album by American folk and blues singer Dave Van Ronk, released in 1988.
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Old, New, Ballads, Blues is the fifteenth solo album by Northern Irish blues guitarist and singer Gary Moore.
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Cincy Blues Fest is an annual blues music festival, held on the banks of the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is believed to be the largest all-volunteer blues festival in the U.S. Over the years it has showcased such acts as Lonnie Mack, Otis Rush, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials, Bobby Rush, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Watermelon Slim & the Workers, Slick Ballinger, the Chicago Allstars, Bob Seeley, Big Joe Duskin, Ricky Nye, and Sonny Moorman. The festival was originally called the Queen City Blues Fest, when the parent organization was called the Queen City Blues Society. These names changed in 1993 to Cincy Blues Fest and Cincy Blues Society, respectively.
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The following is a list of blues rock musicians. Blues rock is a subgenre of rock which developed in the late-1960s and which emphasizes the traditional, three-chord blues song and instrumental improvisation. The first original blues rock artists such as Cream, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Canned Heat actually borrowed the idea of combining an instrumental combo with loud amplification from rock and roll, and also attempted to play long, involved improvisations which were commonplace on jazz records and live blues shows. As blues rock gained popularity, bands that followed immediately were louder and more riff-oriented, giving birth to both heavy metal and Southern rock, which both used basic blues riffs and featured extended solos.
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This rapidly evolving market was mirrored by Billboard magazine's Rhythm and Blues chart. This marketing strategy reinforced trends in urban blues music such as the use of electric instruments and amplification and the generalization of the blues beat, the blues shuffle, which became ubiquitous in rhythm and blues (R&B;). This commercial stream had important consequences for blues music, which, together with jazz and gospel music, became a component of R&B.;Pearson, Barry. In Nothing but the Blues. pp. 313–314. John Lee Hooker Otis Rush, an originator of the "West Side sound" After World War II, new styles of electric blues became popular in cities such as Chicago,Komara, p. 118.
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Described as "one of Toronto's great blues singers from the late '60s to the mid-'80s",Toronto Blues Society, Notice of Death of John Witmer , "Loose Blues News", September 2004;www.torontobluessociety.com. with "a raspy vocal style",John Valenteyn, John's Blues Picks , October 2005, in describing Witmer's vocal style as comparable to that of Robert Johnson, of the more recent band Blues Tribe ; www.torontobluessociety.com. John Witmer co-founded the seminal Canadian blues band, Whiskey Howl in 1969, when he was eighteen years old.Whiskey Howl – The First Year 1969–70 ; www.livinblues.com. The Toronto-based Whiskey Howl, along with the Downchild Blues Band, also formed in 1969, were two of the principal influences in the development of Canadian blues music.
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In 2007, Benoit won his first B.B. King Entertainer of the Year award presented by the Blues Music Awards, described variously as "the highest accolade afforded musicians and songwriters in Blues music" and "[t]he premier blues music event in the world". Benoit was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame (LMHOF) on May 16, 2010, at the LMHOF Louisiana Music Homecoming in Erwinville, Louisiana. In 2012, Benoit won three separate Blues Music Awards: Contemporary Blues Male Artist; Contemporary Blues Album (for 2011's Medicine); and for the second time, B.B. King Entertainer of the Year. 2013 saw Benoit win the Blues Music Awards Contemporary Blues Male Artist for the second year in a row.
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Compelled by his dream of recording his own blues record, he created his first solo work, Live at Babe and Ricky's Inn, in 2002. Harmon (and the Mid South Blues Revue) won the 2004 International Blues Challenge for Best Unsigned Blues Band, sponsored by the Southern California Blues Society of Los Angeles. In 2005, XM Satellite Radio listeners voted Harmon the Best New Blues Artist in the XM Nation Awards, and in 2006, he was awarded the Blues Music Award for Best New Artist Debut for his album, The Blues According to Zacariah. In 2010, Harmon performed at the 2010 "Mississippi Celebrates its GRAMMY Legacy" event, hosted by Haley Barbour, where he was presented with a Peavey Award.
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Hawkins won the 2018 for Northern Ireland Blues Act of the Year at the UK Blues Awards and she was a Nominee in 4 Categories – Female Vocalist/Songwriter/Personality and Northern Ireland Blues Act of the Year. She was the most played artist of 2017 IBBA and was the first UK act to win at the EBU - European Blues Challenge in Denmark in 2017. She was a Semi-Finalist in The Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge, Memphis, 2017 Hawkins won the Album Of The Year award in the 2016 IBBA CHARTS (International Blues Broadcasters Association) Winner – 3rd UK Blues Challenge 2016 (representing UK in Memphis & Denmark) She was Runner Up in the British Blues Awards for Female Vocalist 2016, winner at the Pure M Awards for Best Video 2016 for "This Is Me". In 2015, she received the Barry Middleton Memorial Award for Emerging Artist at the British Blues Awards.
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The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 180. . In about 1912, she was performing as a blues singer at the Segal Theater in Philadelphia.
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Señor Blues is a 1997 studio album by blues musician Taj Mahal, featuring a cover of James Brown's "Think". It won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album at the 40th Grammy Awards.
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In March 2010, Egert appeared at the Basel Blues Festival where he was awarded with the Swiss Blues Award. In March 2012, Egert and Stroger played at the Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival in Panama.
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Anson Funderburgh (born James Anson Funderburgh; November 14, 1954) is an American blues guitar player and bandleader of Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets since 1978. Their style incorporates both Chicago blues and Texas blues.
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Blues Matters! magazine featured Cook on the cover of its October/November (No. 86) issue. He was listed in third place in Blues Matters! 2015 Writer’s Poll, as the Favorite International Blues Solo Artist.
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Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, usually played by small groups and featuring horn instruments. It was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm and blues and rock and roll. Appreciation of jump blues was renewed in the 1990s as part of the swing revival.
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Smith became known as "America's First Lady of the Blues". In 1920, the vaudeville singer Lucille Hegamin became the second black woman to record blues when she recorded "The Jazz Me Blues".Stewart-Baxter, Derrick. Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers. New York: Stein & Day Publishers, 1970. p. 16.
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"The Weary Blues" is one of Hughes's most famous poems. Critics have claimed that the poem is a combination of blues and jazz with personal experiences. It embodies blues as a metaphor and form. It has also been coined as one of the first works of blues performance in literature.
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The Southern California Blues Society is a non-profit organization which is staffed by volunteers. The organization has the aim of preserving and promoting American Blues music and its culture. Proceeds of the festival go to the Willie Dixon Scholarship, Blues in the Schools, also free concerts promoting blues music.
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Saturday Night Blues is a Canadian radio program, which airs Saturday nights on CBC Radio One."Saturday Night Blues celebrates 20 years". Edmonton Journal, December 2, 2006. Hosted by Holger Petersen, the program airs a mix of blues concerts, recordings and interviews with blues musicians. SNB first broadcast in 1987.
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Delta Moon is an American swamp blues, blues rock, and blues band. They originated in Inman Park, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The group's name came to founder member, Mark Johnson, whilst on a pilgrimage to Muddy Waters' cabin near Clarksdale, Mississippi. In 2003, Delta Moon won the International Blues Challenge.
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Spider Blues is the debut solo album by blues artist "Spider" John Koerner, released in 1965. He was a member of the loose-knit blues trio Koerner, Ray & Glover at the time of its release.
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Cheseborough, Steve. Blues Traveling, The Holy Sites of Delta Blues. 3rd ed. University Press of Mississippi, 2009. . p. 93.
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All song written and composed by Gugun Blues Shelter.GBS Official. September 28, 2011. Album Satu Untuk Bebagi. blues-shelter.com.
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In 2015, she posthumously won a Blues Music Award in the 'Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year' category.
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In May 2020, Gales won his second consecutive Blues Music Award as the 'Blues Rock Artist of the Year'.
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Dharma Blues is the title of a recording by American folk and blues guitarist Peter Lang, released in 2002.
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Lots More Blues, Rags and Hollers is an album by the blues trio Koerner, Ray & Glover, released in 1964.
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In 2010, Cyndi Lauper recorded "How Blue Can You Get" with Jonny Lang for her blues album Memphis Blues.
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The Legendary Blues Band was a Chicago blues band formed in 1980 after the breakup of Muddy Waters' band.
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Early British rhythm and blues groups with more blues influences include the Animals, the Rolling Stones, and the Yardbirds.
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Extra Width is the third album by the punk blues group The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, released in 1993.
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V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra, S. T. Erlewine, eds, All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues (Backbeat, 3rd edn., 2003), p. 700. Davies and Korner, having already split with Barber, now plugged in and began to play high powered electric blues that became the model for the subgenre, forming the band Blues Incorporated. Blues Incorporated became something of a clearing house for British blues musicians in the later 1950s and early 1960s, with many joining, or sitting in on sessions.
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Sheldon Harris (né Sheldon Hand Harris; 13 August 1924 Cuyahoga County, Ohio — 8 September 2005 Brooklyn) was an American amateur jazz and blues historian and collector. His book, Blues Who's Who, a result of his 20 years of research, details the biographies of 571 singers. It is a recognized reference in the field of blues music. In 1981 it won the Memphis Blues Foundation's W.C. Handy Award and in 1983 won the "Blues Hall of Fame Award" in the classics of blues literature category.
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There are no standardized criteria for the diagnosis of postpartum blues. Unlike postpartum depression, postpartum blues is not a diagnosis included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Investigators have employed a variety of diagnostic tools in prospective and retrospective studies of postpartum blues, including repurposing screening tools, such as the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and Beck Depression Index (BDI), as well as developing blues-specific scales. Examples of blues-specific scales include the Maternity Blues Questionnaire and the Stein Scale.
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In 1942, Lofton returned to Jackson without achieving much commercial success from his records. He reportedly died in 1962. Lofton's work has been released numerous times on Mississippi Delta blues compilation albums as early as 1964, including Dark Road Blues, Jackson Blues 1928-1938, Mississippi Blues, Volume 2, and Tommy Johnson and Associates. His interpretation of Johnson's "Big Road Blues" is also noted as the only known cover version of the song even though it was a standard among Delta blues musicians who associated with Johnson.
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He perfected two presentation styles to educate children about blues music, and he was known as Mr. Fruteland by those who he taught. Jackson worked with the Blues Foundation to create a teaching program called "All About the Blues". In 1996 the Illinois Arts Council granted him their Folk/Ethnic Heritage Award. The Blues Foundation followed by naming Jackson as a recipient of their 'Keeping the Blues Alive Award.
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Billboard (June 10, 1972): > The strength of Ike's style does lie in his "Blues Roots." Producing himself > on this package of blues images, including some material of blues great > Willie Dixon and other masters, Ike proves his ability as a writer and > artist of the blues as well as his development as a singIe performer. No > horns, no Ikettes, no frills – just clean, pure blues from the roots.
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Johnson turned "Old Original Kokomo Blues" into "Sweet Home Chicago" and "Milk Cow Blues" into "Milkcow's Calf Blues". Another Arnold song, "Sagefield Woman Blues", introduced the phrase "dust my broom", which Johnson used as a song title. Other notable songs include his 1934 recording of "Sissy Man Blues", with lyrics referring to bisexuality ("Lord, if you can't send me no woman, please send me some sissy man").Doyle, JD (2004).
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Living Blues: The Magazine of the African American Blues Tradition is a bi- monthly magazine focused on blues music, and America's oldest blues periodical. The magazine was founded as a quarterly in Chicago in 1970 by Jim O'Neal and Amy van Singel as editors, and five others as writers. Among them were Bruce Iglauer and Paul Garon. They sold the first copies at the 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festival.
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Fiona Boyes is an Australian blues musician. She has been recording for more than 25 years and tours regularly in Australia, the United States, and Europe. In 2003 she won the solo/duo category at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee. Boyes' debut US release Lucky 13 was nominated by the Blues Foundation in Memphis, Tennessee for the 2007 Blues Music Awards, 'Contemporary Blues Album of the Year'.
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While the early British rhythm and blues groups, such as the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and the Animals, incorporated American R&B;, rock and roll, and pop, John Mayall took a more distinctly electric blues approach. In 1966, he released Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton, the first of several influential blues rock albums.Guralnick, Peter, Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock 'n' Roll (Back Bay Books, July 1999), , p.
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The Blast Furnace Blues Festival is a blues music festival, started by ArtsQuest in 2011 in conjunction with Michael Cloeren Productions. The festival is held at the Yuengling Musikfest Cafe and the Fowler Blast Furnace Room. Both venues are located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Blast Furnace Blues Festival was founded to showcase the best in contemporary and traditional blues, acoustic and electric blues, soul, zydeco and gospel music.
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She also recorded in 1927, with Lonnie Johnson on the vocal duet "Hard Times Blues", plus "Weary Money Blues", "Tell Me Why" and "Speedway Blues". In 1928, she recorded vocal duets with Tampa Red, singing "Hard Times Blues", "Christmas Man Blues", and another version of "Trouble in Mind" for Vocalion. In 1929 she recorded "Non- Skid Tread" with "Scrapper" Blackwell and the Two Roys, with Leroy Carr on piano.Laird, Ross (1996).
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"Key to the Highway" is recognized as a blues standard. In 2010, the Blues Foundation inducted Broonzy's rendition into the Blues Hall of Fame. "Key to the Highway" has been recorded by numerous blues and other artists. It was one of the songs played at Duane Allman's 1971 funeral in Macon, Georgia.
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Black Coffee Blues is a book written by Henry Rollins, comprising writings penned between 1989 and 1991. It is composed of seven parts; "124 Worlds", "Invisible Woman Blues", "Exhaustion Blues", "Black Coffee Blues", "Monster", "61 Dreams" and "I Know You". It was published in 1992 by 2.13.61 Publications, Rollins' own publishing house.
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The August Blues Festival () is a blues music festival held in Haapsalu, Estonia since 1993. The festival takes place mainly inside the walls of Haapsalu Castle. It is the biggest blues festival in the Baltic states. Besides Estonian blues musicians, there have been guests from Finland, Sweden, United States of America and elsewhere.
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Includes Jane Vasey photos. One of the first blues artists she heard was Otis Spann; one of her first recordings with the Downchild Blues Band was Otis Spann's "Must Have Been The Devil".Richard Flohill, Remembering Jane Vasey . Toronto Blues Society newsletter, October, 1986, as reprinted by the Toronto Blues Society, 2000; www.torontobluessociety.com.
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Rhodes has played at the San Francisco Blues Festival six times. In 1993, Sonny was the best man in the onstage wedding of Mike and Laura Harrelson at the Sacramento Blues Festival. He also played at the Musicamdo Jazz and Blues Festival in Italy in 2005 and the Fresno Blues Festival in 2007.
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Reiersrud has for many years been host of the NRK radio program, Blues Asylet, together with Knut Borge. The program is meant to be a playground and a respite for blues and blues-friends of all shades. In 2004, Krissy Matthews undertook a radio session with Reiersrud for Blues Asylet on NRK P2.
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Delta Moon's self- titled debut album, which was released on their own label in 2002, contained a cover version of Son House's "Preachin' the Blues". In 2003, Delta Moon won the International Blues Challenge. The same year they performed at the Sarasota Blues Fest. They also appeared at the Bull Durham Blues Festival.
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The Cash Box Kings is an American blues band from Chicago, Illinois, United States, specializing in Chicago-style blues from the 1940s and 1950s, as well as Delta blues style music from the 1920s and 1930s.
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In 2015, Alan Harper, a British blues fan, published the book Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads.Sugrue, Dan (2016). "Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads". WGN radio, March 8, 2016.
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In 1981 Stewart and Charlie Watts contributed to the song "Bad Penny Blues", which appeared on the album, These Kind of Blues by The Blues Band, and was a founding member, with Watts, of Rocket 88.
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The Roomful Horns backed many other artists as well, including Canadian star Colin James on his double platinum album (in Canada), Colin James and the Little Big Band, and Stevie Ray Vaughan on his 1984 Live At Carnegie Hall album on Epic. Over the years Roomful of Blues has played countless gigs and many major festivals, including The San Francisco Blues Festival, The King Biscuit Blues Festival, The Beale Street Music Festival, Blues On The Fox, Illinois Blues Festival, Kansas City Blues Festival, Monterey Blues Festival, Santa Cruz Blues Festival, and overseas at The North Sea Jazz Festival, The Stockholm Jazz Festival, The Montreux Jazz Festival, Notodden Festival and the Belgian Rhythm & Blues Festival. They have gigged with blues stars ranging from B.B. King, Otis Rush and Stevie Ray Vaughan to rockers Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana. The band has toured virtually non-stop, hitting cities from coast to coast, and traveling abroad to Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey and Russia.
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Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, p. 156 and flamboyant blues shouter Jo Jo Adams.
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In 2017, Bachchu initiated the Dhaka Jazz and Blues Festival, where blues and jazz musicians from many countries were invited.
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Daniels' music encompasses bluegrass, country, rock, Southern rock, outlaw country, country rock, blues rock, rock and roll, blues, and gospel.
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Singing the Blues (also Singin' the Blues) is a 1956 song written by Melvin Endsley and recorded by Marty Robbins.
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Deitra received " The Koko Taylor Queen of the Blues Award" from the Jus Blues Music Foundation on August 3, 2017.
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He performed at the first Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1969 and at the Notre Dame Blues Festival in 1971.
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The 1984–85 St. Louis Blues season was the St. Louis Blues' 18th season in the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Wayne Baker Brooks (born April 30, 1970, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American blues and blues-rock guitarist and singer.
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Sacred Island is an album by American blues/world artist Taj Mahal and Hawaiian music group The Hula Blues Band.
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The 1972–73 St. Louis Blues season was the St. Louis Blues' sixth season in the National Hockey League (NHL).
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The 1974–75 St. Louis Blues season was the St. Louis Blues' eighth season in the National Hockey League (NHL).
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The 1987–88 St. Louis Blues season was the St. Louis Blues' 21st season in the National Hockey League (NHL).
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The 1988–89 St. Louis Blues season was the St. Louis Blues' 22nd season in the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Johnson wrote tunes, including "The Krooked Blues" (recorded by King Oliver) and "So Different Blues". Johnson died in Portland, Oregon.
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Blues, Rags and Hollers is the first album by the American country blues trio Koerner, Ray & Glover, released in 1963.
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He continued to perform and regularly headlined various blues festivals, including the Bluesweek Festival and the Big Muddy Blues Festival.
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The 1989–90 St. Louis Blues season was the St. Louis Blues' 23rd season in the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Stormy Monday Blues is an album by blues guitarist/vocalist T-Bone Walker released by the BluesWay label in 1968.
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The Blues signed former All Black captain Tana Umaga to replace Sir John Kirwan as head coach of the Blues.
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Andrew "Smokey" Hogg (January 27, 1914 – May 1, 1960) was an American post-war Texas blues and country blues musician.
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The St. Louis Blues entered the playoffs as the Central Division regular season champions. The Blues took on the wild card Minnesota Wild in the first round. The Blues were defeated in six games by the Wild.
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The Juno Award for "Blues Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1994, as recognition each year for the best blues album in Canada. The award used to be a combined blues and gospel award category.
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Greenway was also a collector and performer of songs in the talking blues genre. In 1958 he released the album Talking Blues, a collection of 15 songs which he had recorded and annotated.Talking Blues, Smithsonian Folkways, 1958.
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Mattie Delaney (born c. 1905; date of death unknown) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist active in the 1930s. Only two recordings by her are known: "Down the Big Road Blues" and "Tallahatchie River Blues".
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"Tutu Jones" By Tim Schuller Living Blues No. 120 March–April 1995, pps. 39–41 17. "Dallas Blues: Andrew 'Junior Boy' Jones" (Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones) By Tim Schuller Living Blues No. 129 September–October 1996, p.
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The Blues have a tradition of live organ music. Jeremy Boyer, the Blues organist, plays a Glenn Miller arrangement of W. C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues" in its entirety before games and a short version at the end of every period, followed by "When the Saints Go Marching In." Boyer also plays the latter song on the organ after Blues goals, with fans replacing the word "Saints" with "Blues." On October 1, 2018, it was reported that, for the upcoming season, a new goal song recorded by St. Louis- based band The Urge, "The Blues Have The Urge," would be played after Blues goals, immediately following the traditional organ music.
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Margit Bakken at Notodden Blues Festival in 2013. With Rita Engedalen, she forms the duo Women in Blues, one of the most established blues ensembles in Scandinavia In 1988, thirteen local blues enthusiasts gave their personal guarantee to the bank and were granted a cash credit, and the first Notodden Blues Festival took place. The credit from the bank turned out to be unnecessary, and the festival soon became one of Norway's most popular music festivals. Today, the Notodden Blues Festival is the largest "pure" blues festival in Scandinavia, expanding from 2,000 sold tickets (NOK 200,000 gross ticket sales) to 24,500 sold tickets (NOK 12,000,000 gross ticket sales) in 17 years.
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Notwithstanding its offensive title, "Nigger Blues" is important for being one of the first songs labeled "blues" to be published. George O'Connor had recorded it in 1916 for Columbia." Copyrighted by the Texas-born White in 1912, it was first titled "Negro Blues", but for some reason when White published it in 1913, he retitled it.Monge, "New Songs of Blind Lemon Jefferson", p. 19: "In fact, in addition to its textual relationship in the first stanza to 'Michigan Water Blues,' Jefferson’s 'Light House Blues' is related textually and musically to an even older song, 'The Negro Blues'/'Nigger Blues' by Leroy 'Lasses' White of Dallas.
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Carey is a multiple Maple Blues Award winner, as horn player of the year and a multiple Juno Award winner. His distinguished musical career was so honoured by the Juno Awards as early as 1992 and with the Maple Blues Award beginning in 1999. Carey has remained a member of The Maple Blues Revue, which was formed by both Carey and Gary Kendall. This eleven member group of Canadian blues musicians whom are all multiple Maple Blues Award winners or nominees, perform at the annual Maple Blues Awards Ceremony in Toronto, Ontario as the Maple Blues Band and have released one recording, Live at Twisted Pines.
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Blues Bureau International is an American guitar oriented, blues, and blues rock independent record label. Blues Bureau is a member of Mike Varney's Shrapnel Label Group, which also includes Shrapnel Records, another guitar oriented label which features shred guitar, hard rock, metal and progressive metal, and Tone Center Records, a jazz oriented label featuring "fusion guitar" as well as a number of jazz tributes. Blues Bureau artists include Rick Derringer, Eric Gales, Marc Ford, Chris Duarte, Leslie West and Pat Travers. The Blues Bureau catalog is a reflection of Mr. Varney's desire to provide a platform for talented young blues guitarists, and to allow established artists to pursue their artistic vision.
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American blues singer Ma Rainey (1886–1939), the "Mother of the Blues" The lyrics of early traditional blues verses probably often consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current structure became standard: the so-called "AAB" pattern, consisting of a line sung over the four first bars, its repetition over the next four, and then a longer concluding line over the last bars.Ferris, p. 230. Two of the first published blues songs, "Dallas Blues" (1912) and "Saint Louis Blues" (1914), were 12-bar blues with the AAB lyric structure.
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"(Donnie) Walsh has been called the 'father of Canadian blues' and with good reason. He is a blues pioneer on the Canadian scene. It was Walsh who paid the highest dues so that later Canadian blues acts, such as the Jeff Healey Band, the Colin James Band, the Powder Blues, Sue Foley, The Sidemen and The Highliners could also enjoy their success. The Canadian blues scene, which has blossomed nicely in the last few years, was relatively barren in the late 1960s when The Downchild Blues Band first started out.'" :David Dicaire, More Blues Singers: Biographies of 50 Artists from the Later 20th Century (McFarland, 2002),, 9780786410354 pp. 215-216.
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An historic marker designated by the Mississippi Blues Commission on the Mississippi Blues Trail was placed in front of the 100 Men Hall in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The 100 Men Hall is one of the rare still standing, still active blues venues on the trail. The second historic marker designated by the Mississippi Blues Commission on the Mississippi Blues Trail was placed in front of the Southern Whispers Restaurant on Nelson Street in Greenville, Mississippi, a stop on the Chitlin' Circuit in the early days of the blues. The marker commemorates the importance of this site in the history of the blues in Mississippi.
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Before the official formation of the Fathead band in 1992, Al Lerman would contact musicians to see who wanted to come and perform at gigs as a band. During which time Tony Flaim, whose associations included the Cameo Blues Band and the Downchild Blues Band, joined as lead vocalist, he would continue until returning to the Downchild Blues Band as their lead vocalist in 1986. In terms of blues styles, the quintet uses uptempo Chicago blues blended with the sound of Mississippi Delta blues creating its own unique and contemporary sound. Most of the songs are blues originals, generally co-written by Lerman and bass player Bob "Omar" Tunnoch.
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It was during this period that the poet Myron O'Higgins introduced her to Sterling Brown, who encouraged her growing interest in blues music. Brown was the author of "Ma Rainey" (1932), arguably the quintessential blues poem; O'Higgins, his student at Howard University, had also written poetry on blues themes, such as "Blues for Bessie" (1945).
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She was nominated Best Blues Performer of the Year 2020 by the Washington Blues Society. In 2020, American Songwriter called her "a legendary soul & blues diva who has been beloved in the Pacific Northwest for decades, both for the unchained power of her soul and blues singing, and for her ongoing contributions to the community".
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Rod Piazza (born December 18, 1947, Riverside, California) is an American blues harmonica player and singer. He has been playing with his band The Mighty Flyers since 1980 which he formed with his pianist wife Honey Piazza. Their boogie sound combines the styles of jump blues, West Coast blues and Chicago blues. Rod Piazza.
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Truth is an album with a big band sound, that covers two genres: jazz and Chicago blues. "The album is full of style and sophistication this is blues that has a steely cold determination."[sic] The album contains, "blues, funk, soul, and everything in between." Truth is blues, but it is also jazz and soul.
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"Milk Cow Blues" is a blues song written and originally recorded by Kokomo Arnold in September 1934. In 1935 and 1936, he recorded four sequels designated "Milk Cow Blues No. 2" through No. 5. The song made Arnold a star, and was widely adapted by artists in the blues, Western swing and rock idioms.
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Blues mascot, Louie Louie is the current mascot of the St. Louis Blues. He was introduced on October 10, 2007 and on November 3, 2007, when the fans voted on the name on the Blues website. Louie is a blue-furred polar bear and wears a Blues jersey with his name on the back.
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Republished Art Beat, PBS, 26 September 2016. His third album Hindi Man Blues followed in 2018. Kumar is eclectic in his blues style. He performs as half of a duo with guitarist Little Jonny Lawton as well as with his quartet, the Aki Kumar Blues Band, hosts blues jams and works as a session musician.
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Chris Duarte (born February 16, 1963) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Duarte plays a style of Texas blues-rock that draws on elements of jazz, blues, and rock and roll. In his own words, his musical style is a combination of "rockin' blues" and "punk blues." He is signed to Shrapnel Records.
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Retrieved 25 July 2010. In 1979, Dave Kelly, who had been a member of the John Dummer Blues Band formed the Blues Band with ex-Manfred Mann vocalist Paul Jones and Gary Fletcher, who continued to tour and record rhythm and blues into the new millennium.G. Prato, "The Blues Band", Allmusic. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
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Garofalo, pp. 224–225. Through these artists and others, blues music influenced the development of rock music. In the early 1970s, the Texas rock-blues style emerged, which used guitars in both solo and rhythm roles. In contrast with the West Side blues, the Texas style is strongly influenced by the British rock-blues movement.
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Several of the albums produced by Braunagel have been nominated for and won Grammy and Blues Music Awards, reached Billboard charts, Living Blues charts, Roots & Music reports, and many Blues blog charts around the world, including albums by artists such as Taj Mahal, Eric Burdon, Coco Montoya, Danielle Nicole, Phantom Blues Band, and Curtis Salgado.
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Also in that year, Cropper and Dunn became part of the Blues Brothers band, appearing on the number-one album Briefcase Full of Blues. Cropper, Dunn and Hall also appeared in the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers, starring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. Cropper, Dunn and Hall later reprised their roles in Blues Brothers 2000.
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His recordings have been issued on several blues compilation albums, including his "Your Sweet Man's Blues" on Blues Roots Vol. 2 : Blues All Around My Bed (1983). In 1994, all eight of his recorded songs were included on the Ralph Willis' compilation album Ralph Willis: Complete Recordings Vol. 2 (1950–1953), issued by Document Records.
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In 1957 Davies and Korner decided that their central interest was the blues and closed the skiffle club, reopening a month later as the London Blues and Barrelhouse Club.L. Portis, Soul Trains (Virtualbookworm Publishing, 2002), p. 213. To this point British blues was acoustically played emulating Delta blues and Country blues styles and often part of the emerging second British folk revival. Critical in changing this was the visit of Muddy Waters in 1958, who initially shocked British audiences by playing amplified electric blues, but who was soon playing to ecstatic crowds and rave reviews.
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One Long Tune: the life and music of Lenny Breau. Denton, TX. University of North Texas Press. . Doyle was instrumental in getting Rounder Records to sign the blues guitarist and singer Johnny Copeland to a recording contract. Doyle has produced many other notable acts including jazz alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe, jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp, rock band Crazy Horse, blues guitarist Houston Stackhouse, blues guitarist Bukka White, country blues singer and guitarist Mississippi John Hurt, blues guitarist Otis Rush, blues singer and guitarist R. L. Burnside, and guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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Blues and half-blues have been awarded at the University of Queensland since 1912. Blues have been awarded for outstanding performances in club fixtures, representative games, and inter-university competitions as well as for international representation whilst studying at the University. The University of Queensland blue is the highest sporting accolade an athlete can receive from the university. In recent years, UQ Sport through its Blues Advisory Committee, has developed a selection method and criteria to ensure that blues and half blues at the university are of the highest standard.
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In 1998, Gray was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album for A Tribute to Howlin' Wolf, released by Telarc Records. Between 2002 and 2017, Gray was nominated for six Blues Music Awards (formerly the W.C. Handy Blues Awards) in various categories, including Traditional Blues Male Artist and Traditional Blues Album (both in 2002). Gray was a recipient of the 2006 National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts, the nation's top honor for folk artists. In 2016, Blues Blast Magazine honored Gray with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Born in New York City in 1945, Rabson had been playing and singing the blues professionally since 1962. She also performed as a solo act and with various other bands. She had been nominated eight times for a Blues Music Award (formerly W.C. Handy Award) as Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year.2000 Blues Awards Her first solo album, Music Makin' Mama, was nominated as Album of the Year in both the Traditional Blues and Acoustic Blues categories, and her composition "Elevator Man" was nominated as Song of the Year.
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Drummer Ed White as a member of Fathead, received a Maple Blues Award as Drummer of The Year, in 2000. John Mays, Al Lerman and Ted Leonard joined and remained members of The Maple Blues Revue. This eleven member group of Canadian blues musicians whom are all multiple Maple Blues Award winners or nominees, perform at the annual Maple Blues Awards Ceremony in Toronto, Ontario as the Maple Blues Band and have released one recording, Live at Twisted Pines. The band's first album, Fathead, was released independently in 1995.
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The Electric Revelators are a blues band, formed in Swansea 2004, Wales, added Jerry Donahue ex-member of Fairport Convention and Chris Rea Band to the line- up in 2011. Originally called The Revelators they added Electric to the name in 2009 when they toured with The Animals and David "Honeyboy" Edwards. The band play an electric set of Chicago blues, Texas blues and British blues all with an indie twist. Their acoustic set is a mix of original and standard Delta blues they have performed at UK and European Blues Festivals since 2004.
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Gospel blues is a form of blues-based gospel music that has been around since the inception of blues music. It combines evangelistic lyrics with blues instrumentation.[ AllMusic] Notable gospel blues performers include Blind Willie Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Reverend Gary Davis and Washington Phillips. Blues musicians such as Boyd Rivers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, Sam Collins, Josh White, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Willie Mctell, Bukka White, Sleepy John Estes and Skip James have recorded Gospel and religious songs, these were sometimes commercially released under a pseudonym.
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The History of the Blues. New York: Hyperion, 1995, rock and roll did not acquire its name until the 1950s.Dawson, Jim & Propes, Steve, What was the first rock ’n’ roll record?, Faber & Faber, , 1992 "Rock"' or its forerunners electric blues (Chicago blues) and rhythm and blues (Jump blues) was first heard in the late 1940s by Canadians who were living close enough to the American border to tune into American radio station broadcasts.
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Weaver recorded "Longing for Daddy Blues" and "I've Got to Go and Leave My Daddy Behind" with the blues singer Sara Martin on October 23, 1923, in New York City. Two weeks later, as a soloist, he recorded "Guitar Blues" and "Guitar Rag", the first blues guitar instrumentals. Both recordings were released by Okeh Records. They are the first recorded country blues, and the first known recordings of a bottleneck- style slide guitar.
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He was nominated for the Blues Music Awards in 2003, for 'Comeback Blues Album of the Year', for his album I'm Not Hungry But I Like to Eat - Blues. He has recorded St. James Infirmary, Careless Love, and Erwin Helfer Way for The Sirens Records. Recently he has played at the Chicago Jazz Festival, 2005–2007; Debrecen Jazz Festival in Hungary, 2005, the Chicago Blues Festival, 1986-2010, and throughout blues clubs in Chicago.
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The Blues for Alice changes, Bird changes, Bird Blues, or New York Blues changes, is a chord progression, often named after Charlie Parker ("Bird"), which is a variation of the twelve-bar blues. The progression uses a series of sequential ii–V or secondary ii–V progressions, and has been used in pieces such as Parker's "Blues for Alice". Toots Thielemans's "Bluesette"Hatfield, Ken (2005). Jazz and the Classical Guitar Theory and Applications, p.182. .
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Band members Michael Pickett and John Witmer went on to further contributions to Canadian blues music. Vocalist Witmer became the lead singer of the Downchild Blues Band during the 1982-1986 period,Uncredited, Biography of Downchild Blues Band, The Canadian Pop Encyclopedia; www.jam.canoe.ca. as well as subsequently continuing as a professional musician until his death in 2004.Witmer died in July 2004; see Toronto Blues Society, Loose Blues News, September, 2004; www.torontobluessociety.com.
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Erline Harris (April 5, 1914 - January 6, 2004),John Broven with Dale Comminey, "Erline Harris: Rock & Roll Blues Lady; Part 2", Juke Blues no.70, Late 2010, pp.16-22 born Erlyn Eloise Johnson, was an American rhythm and blues singer in the 1940s and early 1950s. Her 1949 song "Rock and Roll Blues" was one of the first jump blues songs to use the phrase "rock and roll" in its secular context.
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Blues is All Right is a studio album released by the blues guitarist Guitar Shorty (David Kearney). The album was released on CD by the label Collectables on August 27, 1996, the same day as the compilation album Billie Jean Blues. The album was produced by Swamp Dogg at several studios. The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings says that this album is the superior of it and Billie Jean Blues due to more varied material.
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Charters, Samuel. In Nothing but the Blues. pp. 14–15. However, in the 1920s, when country blues began to be recorded, the use of the banjo in blues music was quite marginal and limited to individuals such as Papa Charlie Jackson and later Gus Cannon.Charters, Samuel. In Nothing but the Blues. p. 16. Blues music also adopted elements from the "Ethiopian airs", minstrel shows and Negro spirituals, including instrumental and harmonic accompaniment.Garofalo, p. 44.
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Diana Braithwaite is a Canadian electric blues singer, songwriter and screenwriter. She is a multiple Maple Blues Award winner. More recently she has teamed up with Chris Whiteley and they have been acclaimed as "blues icons" by the Toronto Star, and collectively have won nine Maple Blues Awards and had six Juno Award nominations. Although they are little known in the United States, Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley are mainstays of the Canadian blues scene.
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Blues rock can be characterized by bluesy improvisation, the twelve-bar blues, extended boogie jams typically focused on the electric guitar player, and often a heavier, riff-oriented sound and feel to the songs than found in typical Chicago-style blues. Blues rock bands "borrow[ed] the idea of an instrumental combo and loud amplification from rock & roll". It is also often played at a fast tempo, again distinguishing it from the blues.
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Her first recording was made in 1923. In the next five years, she made over 100 recordings, including "Bo-Weevil Blues" (1923), "Moonshine Blues" (1923), "See See Rider Blues" (1924), "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (1927), and "Soon This Morning" (1927). Rainey was known for her powerful vocal abilities, energetic disposition, majestic phrasing, and a "moaning" style of singing. Her qualities are present and most evident in her early recordings "Bo-Weevil Blues" and "Moonshine Blues".
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In jazz, the blues scale is used by improvising musicians in a variety of harmonic contexts. It can be played for the entire duration of a twelve bar blues progression constructed off the root of the first dominant seventh chord. For example, a C hexatonic blues scale could be used to improvise a solo over a C blues chord progression. The blues scale can also be used to improvise over a minor chord.
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Writer and producer Robert Palmer defined rhythm & blues as "a catchall term referring to any music that was made by and for black Americans". He has used the term "R&B;" as a synonym for jump blues. However, AllMusic separates it from jump blues because of R&B;'s stronger gospel influences. Lawrence Cohn, author of Nothing but the Blues, writes that "rhythm and blues" was an umbrella term invented for industry convenience.
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Mixed by Larry Nix at Ardent Studios, the album was a blend of blues, rock, and rhythm & blues. Asselin contributed songwriting and arrangement credits on all twelve of the album's tracks. The record was placed in the top 20 of the Roots Music Report Contemporary Blues Chart and peaked at number 21 on the Living Blues Magazine Radio Charts. The notoriety saw them compete at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Paul Vaughn Butterfield (December 17, 1942May 4, 1987) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and band leader. After early training as a classical flautist, he developed an interest in blues harmonica. He explored the blues scene in his native Chicago, where he met Muddy Waters and other blues greats, who provided encouragement and opportunities for him to join in jam sessions. He soon began performing with fellow blues enthusiasts Nick Gravenites and Elvin Bishop.
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David William Kelly (born 13 March 1947) is a British blues singer, guitarist and composer, who has been active on the British blues music scene since the 1960s. He has performed with the John Dummer Blues Band, Tramp, The Blues Band, and his own Dave Kelly Band. His sister, Jo Ann Kelly, was also a blues singer, and she and Dave participated in many musical projects together. Kelly is a disciple of Fred McDowell.
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In 1996 he initiated a collaboration with guitar player Uffe Steen, bass player Morten Brauner and drummer Esben Bach (later replaced by drummer Claus Daugaard) and formed the quartet Blue Junction. The band was noticed even outside blues circles and internationally. Blue Junction recorded four albums, a DVD and a few singles, and received two American Real Blues Awards for Best Live European Blues Recording and Best European Blues Act.Real Blues Magazine 2000 (no. 25).
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"Crosscut Saw", or "Cross Cut Saw Blues" as it was first called, is a dirty blues song "that must have belonged to the general repertoire of the Delta blues". The song was first released in 1941 by Mississippi bluesman Tommy McClennan and has since been interpreted by many blues artists. "Crosscut Saw" became an early R&B; chart hit for Albert King, "who made it one of the necessary pieces of modern blues".
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In 2018, "Cross Cut Saw" was inducted into the Blues Foundation Blues Hall of Fame as a "classic of blues recording". In its announcement, the Foundation notes the song's "complicated evolution", but adds that King's version made it a popular blues standard with blues musicians. It also identifies Al Jackson as the one primarily responsible for bringing the song to Stax and King as well as giving it a Latin (Afro-Cuban) beat.
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Between 2016 and 2017, Franchi appeared at other blues festivals, including the Doheny Blues Festival (California), Blues From The Top (Colorado, United States), Blues 'n Jazz Rallye (Rapperswill,Switzerland), Olsztyn Blues Festival (Olsztyn, Poland), and the Augustibluus Festival (Haapsalu, Estonia). and many others. In February 2017, Anson Funderburgh and Don Ritter, agreed to produce Franchi's third album Problem Child. The recording took place at Stuart Sullivan’s Wire Recording Studio in Austin, Texas.
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The Victor Military Band recorded the first recorded blues song, "The Memphis Blues", on July 15, 1914 in Camden, New Jersey. In 1917, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded "Livery Stable Blues", and established jazz as popular music.
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AJ Ghent's debut studio album (March 16, 2018), The Neo Blues Project, debuted No. 7 on the Blues Billboard Charts, and reached the No. 11 spot on the Top 50 Blues Rock Roots Music Report in February 2018.
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James Henry “Jimmy” Dawkins (October 24, 1936 – April 10, 2013) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer. He is generally considered to have been a practitioner of the "West Side sound" of Chicago blues.
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Risin' with the Blues won Turner his first solo Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The album earned Turner a nomination for best Blues Album at the 7th Annual Independent Music Awards.
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Big Bear Records is a British record label set up in 1968 by Jim Simpson in Birmingham, England. It specialises in blues and jazz recordings.Bob Brunning: The American Blues Legends. in: Bob Brunning: Blues — The British connection. Dorset.
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"Motherless Child Blues" (or, in dialect, "Motherless Chile Blues") is the name of two distinct traditional blues songs. They are different melodically and lyrically. One was first popularized by Robert "Barbecue Bob" Hicks, the other by Elvie Thomas.
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Richie Pugh (capt, Ospreys), Rhys Williams (Blues), Rhodri McAtee (Penzance), James Hook (Ospreys), James Merriman (Gloucester), Johnathan Edwards (Scarlets), Rhys Oakley (Dragons), Robin Sowden-Taylor (Blues), Wayne Evans (Blues), Gareth Baber (Dragons), Tal Selley (Scarlets), Jonathan Vaughton (Ospreys).
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The Climax Chicago Blues Band is the debut album by Climax Blues Band (originally known as The Climax Chicago Blues Band) recorded in 1968 and released in 1969 by EMI Records (Parlophone label) under catalog number PCS 7069.
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New blues is a name given to blues music by artists such as The White Stripes, John Mayer Trio, Seasick Steve, NuBlues, Stephen Dale Petit, and The Black Keys, who are ushering the blues into the 21st century.
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Mattie Hite (sometimes spelled Matie Hite; c. 1890 – c. 1935) was an American blues singer in the classic female blues style.
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Eddie C. Campbell (May 6, 1939 - November 20, 2018) was an American blues guitarist and singer in the Chicago blues scene.
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180x180px Golding recorded his 1997 album Stretching The Blues with blues musicians, including Otis Grand, Doris Troy and Slim Jim Phantom.
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Blues Trade Brewer to Tampa Bay: The Blues get rights to Brock Beukeboom and a 3rd Round Pick in 2011, NHL.
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Bolletjes Blues (Gangsta Blues, also known as Bling!) is a 2006 Dutch musical film with Negativ as the main character, Spike.
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John Primer (born March 5, 1945, Camden, Mississippi, United States) is an American Chicago blues and electric blues singer and guitarist.
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Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams (July 10, 1911 - September 15, 1985) was an American jazz, jump blues, and rhythm and blues trumpeter.
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Power of the Blues is the fourteenth solo album by Northern Irish blues guitarist and singer Gary Moore, released in 2004.
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Rhinestones & Steel Strings is a blues album by American blues guitarist and singer Rory Block, released in 1984 by Rounder Records.
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Confessions of a Blues Singer is a blues album by Rory Block. It was released 6 October 1998 through Rounder Records.
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The Johnnie Marshall Blues Band also appeared in September 2016, at the inaugural Florida Jazz & Blues Festival in Cascades Park (Tallahassee).
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The Fake Leather Blues Band is a blues band from Pretoria, South Africa. They are also commonly known simply as FLBB.
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Fenton Lee Robinson (September 23, 1935 – November 25, 1997) was an American blues singer and exponent of the Chicago blues guitar.
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Texas blues also relies on guitar solos or "licks" as bridges in songs. Below is a list of Texas blues musicians.
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Salgado was the inspiration behind John Belushi's creation of the Blues Brothers characters in the late 1970s. They met and became friends while Belushi was in Eugene, Oregon filming the movie Animal House. The Blues Brother's debut album Briefcase Full of Blues is dedicated to Salgado, and Cab Calloway's character in The Blues Brothers film is named after Curtis.
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"Little Sadie" is a 20th-century American folk ballad in Dorian mode. It is also known variously as "Bad Lee Brown", "Cocaine Blues", "Transfusion Blues", "East St. Louis Blues", "Late One Night", "Penitentiary Blues" and other titles. It tells the story of a man who is apprehended after shooting his wife/girlfriend. He is then sentenced by a judge.
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At the same time, American artists, such as the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (who included two members of Howlin' Wolf's band), John P. Hammond, and Charlie Musselwhite performed in the style of Chicago blues. Later, Cream, Rory Gallagher, and the Allman Brothers Band also pursued their own interpretations of Chicago blues songs and helped popularize blues rock.
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Dancin' wid da Blues Brothers is the fifth album by The Blues Brothers. It is a rare official Atlantic mini LP compiling seven tracks from previous albums, including four tracks taken from The Blues Brothers: Music from the Soundtrack album, two tracks from the Briefcase Full of Blues album, and one track from the Made in America album.
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In 2003 and 2004, he played with the Barrelhouse Blues Orchestra. More recently, Mars teamed up with the blues guitarist Michael Roach and in 2008, he appeared at the Bath Music Festival in the United Kingdom, The Pocono Blues Festival (United States) and the Kastav Blues Festival (Croatia). In January 2010, the pair toured the Middle East.
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Jackie Payne (born September 26, 1945) is an American blues singer. He was nominated in both 2007 and 2008 for the Blues Music Award for Best Male Soul Blues Artist; an album he recorded with Johnny Otis was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1993. He is the nephew of the blues harmonica player Neal Pattman.
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Years ago blues and rhythm and blues music was featured prominently at the club, including a yearly blues festival in February and an annual Battle of the Blues Bands. Harpers Ferry abruptly closed in October 2010 following an unresolved dispute between the club's general manager and the landlord. Several months of performances were cancelled so the club could close.
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"Royal Garden Blues" sheet music cover. "Royal Garden Blues" is a blues song composed by Clarence Williams and Spencer Williams in 1919. Popularized in jazz by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band,Bix BeiderBecke: Royal Garden Blues at jazz.com - retrieved on 30 April 2009 it has since been recorded by numerous artists and has become a jazz standard.
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James Montgomery (born on May 12, 1949) is an American blues musician, best known as the lead singer, blues harp player, frontman, and bandleader of The James Montgomery Blues Band (a.k.a. The James Montgomery Band). Montgomery collaborates with many star performers and recording artists. He is also the past President of The New England Blues Society.
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According to an interview with Wilson in the December 2010 issue of Guitar Player Magazine, he is trying to push the blues in new directions by creating records that are void of the typical blues cliches. Lyrically and sonically adventurous, while still deeply embedded within the blues form, he calls the blues the DNA of his recordings.
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Truth is the fourth studio album by Israeli-American blues artist Guy King. Released in 2016, the album is a blend of blues, jazz, funk, and soul. King's vocals on the album were heavily influenced by Ray Charles's vocal stylings. Truth reached #1 at the Roots music report -Contemporary Blues Chart, and #5 at the Living Blues Chart.
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"All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" or "All Your Love" is a blues standard written and recorded by Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush in 1958. Of all of his compositions, it is the best-known with versions by several blues and other artists. "All Your Love" was inspired by an earlier blues song and later influenced other popular songs.
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Vocalist and harmonica player Pickett developed a multiple award-winning solo career.Including Maple Blues Awards on three occasions as harmonica player of the year plus, in 1999, a "Blues With A Feeling Award", honouring a distinguished musical career. The Maple Blues Awards are considered to be Canada's equivalent of the U.S. Blues Music Awards. See Michael Pickett Awards; www.michaelpickett.com.
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Many prominent college and pro hockey players have played in the CSHL at one point in their careers, including 2007 Hobey Baker finalist Eric Ehn (Metro Jets), St. Louis Blues forward and 2010 and 2014 U.S. Olympian Paul Stastny (St. Louis Jr. Blues) and Chris Butler (St. Louis Jr. Blues), now in the St. Louis Blues' organization.
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Amanda Fish is an American blues singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her 2018 album, Free, debuted at number 6 in the Billboard Blues Albums Chart. At the 40th Blues Music Awards, it was named the Best Emerging Artist Album. Her younger sister, Samantha Fish, is a fellow blues and roots rock singer- songwriter, recording for Ruf Records.
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In 1998 Hopkins celebrated 50 years in show business. In 2005, Motherin' The Blues: Linda Hopkins — The Continuing Legacy of The Blues Woman, researched and written by Erany Barrow-Pryor, Ph.D. through the Department of English at University of California, Los Angeles, was published.Barrow-Pryor, Erany. Motherin' The Blues: Linda Hopkins — The Continuing Legacy of The Blues Woman.
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With the release of their first album Bloodlines in 1994, Michael Hill's Blues Mob established themselves. Bloodlines went on to earn the Living Blues Critic's award for Debut Blues Album of the Year. The next four years saw the band release two more albums on Alligator Records; Have Mercy! (1996) and New York State Of Blues (1998).
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In May 2008 Jones made his 100th appearance for Cardiff Blues, playing against Connacht.Deinion Starts Against Connacht & Is First To Join Blues 100 Club – Cardiff Blues Jones made his Wales debut on 11 November 2000 against Samoa.WRU Player profile In July 2012, Jones was appointed the match-day team manager of Cardiff Blues. Jones is a fluent Welsh speaker.
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Herman "Junior" Parker (March 27, 1932November 18, 1971) Little Junior Parker, Mississippi Blues Trail. Retrieved October 14, 2016 was an American Memphis blues singer and musician. He is best remembered for his voice which has been described as "honeyed" and "velvet-smooth". One music journalist noted, "For years Junior Parker deserted downhome harmonica blues for uptown blues-soul music".
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Supplement p. 2. Mura Dehn used the term "The Blues" in The Spirit Moves, Part 1, as the sub-section title of Chapter II, referencing different dance styles.Village Voice, December 2, 1986. African-American essayist and novelist Albert Murray used the term "blues-idiom dance" and "blues-idiom dance movement" in his book Stomping the Blues.
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The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing But the Blues is an album by the David Bromberg Band. It was released by Red House Records on October 14, 2016. The album contains thirteen blues songs – eleven covers and two originals – performed in a wide variety of styles. David Bromberg sings and plays electric and acoustic guitar.
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The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker (also known as The Folk Blues of John Lee Hooker) is the third studio album by blues musician John Lee Hooker recorded in Detroit in 1959 and released by the Riverside label.
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The result was a re-evaluation of the blues in America which enabled white Americans much more easily to become blues musicians, opening the door to Southern rock and the development of Texas blues musicians like Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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'Rollin' With the Blues Boss' by Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne Retrieved 22 April 2014. Lavin continues to record and perform as Tom Lavin & the Legendary Powder Blues Band and is also currently director of the Pacific Audio Visual Institute.
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He formed his own Calep Emphrey Blues Band, and issued an album, Handcuffed to the Blues, in 2010. Abby Owen, "Calep Emphrey Interview", American Blues News, April 24, 2010. Retrieved 28 April 2017 Emphrey died in 2017, aged 67.
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25 March 2014.) was an American singer and vaudeville performer, best known for her blues performances and recordings. She was billed as "The Uncrowned Queen of the Blues".Harrison, Daphne Duval (1988). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s.
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Let's Roll is the twenty-sixth studio album by Etta James. It won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album in 2003, and also won the Soul/Blues Album of the Year from the Blues Foundation in 2004.
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"Let the Good Times Roll" is a jump blues song recorded in 1946 by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five. A mid-tempo twelve-bar blues, the song became a blues standard and one of Jordan's best-known songs.
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Down and Out Blues was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2007.Past Hall of Fame Inductees Blues Foundation. Retrieved January 10, 2011. In 1988, the album won a W.C. Handy Award for Vintage/Reissue Album (US).
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Ana Popović performing in 2010 Despite the facts that many 1960s rock bands, such as Crni Biseri, Daltoni, Elipse, and others performed rhythm and blues, and many 1970s progressive and hard rock bands, such as Pop Mašina, YU Grupa, Smak and Riblja Čorba, incorporated blues elements into their music, the first Serbian blues band, Blues Kvintet, was formed in 1979. They held their first concert at Mašinac club in Belgrade in spring of 1981, which is considered the first blues concert by a Serbian band. During the 1980s many notable blues/blues-rock bands was formed: Sirova Koža (also known internationally as Raw Hide), formed in 1982; Point Blank and Blues Trio, both formed in 1983; Zona B, formed in 1987; Di Luna Blues Band, formed 1989. The band Hush, led by female guitarist Ana Popović, released their debut and only album Hometown in 1998.
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Blues musical styles, forms (12-bar blues), melodies, and the blues scale have influenced many other genres of music, such as rock and roll, jazz, and popular music. Prominent jazz, folk or rock performers, such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and Bob Dylan have performed significant blues recordings. The blues scale is often used in popular songs like Harold Arlen's "Blues in the Night", blues ballads like "Since I Fell for You" and "Please Send Me Someone to Love", and even in orchestral works such as George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Concerto in F". Gershwin's second "Prelude" for solo piano is an interesting example of a classical blues, maintaining the form with academic strictness. The blues scale is ubiquitous in modern popular music and informs many modal frames, especially the ladder of thirds used in rock music (for example, in "A Hard Day's Night").
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Yellow Dog Records is an American independent record label based in Memphis, Tennessee that features authentic American music: blues, soul and Americana. It was founded in 2002 to support independent musicians on its roster with recording, production, promotion and distribution. Artists on the label have received numerous awards and played with notable musicians, including Eden Brent - Blues Music Award recipient for 2009 Acoustic Artist of the Year and Acoustic Album of the Year for "Mississippi Number One", plus the winner of the Blues Foundation's 2006 International Blues Challenge; Fiona Boyes – the first Australian and the first woman to win the Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge and three time Blues Award Nominee; Mary Flower – 2008 Blues Music Award Nominee for Acoustic Artist of the Year; and Terry Robb – 19 time Best Acoustic Guitar Muddy Award winner from the Cascade Blues Association and Oregon Music Hall of Fame member.D'Antoni, Tom.
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The motif of a deal with the Devil may have been influenced by Cross Road Blues, by Delta blues singer Robert Johnson.
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In 2017, the album was inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame in the category of 'Classics of Blues Recordings – Album'.
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Birchmeier, Jason. "Wolverine Blues - Entombed". AllMusic. Access date: January 3, 2012. Wolverine Blues is considered a classic of early 1990s death metal.
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Healey's death came a month before the release of Mess of Blues, which was his first rock/blues album in eight years.
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Quinn Golden (October 25, 1954-July 28, 2003) was an American soul blues, blues, and R&B; singer, born in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Rita Chiarelli is a Canadian blues singer. She was called "the goddess of Canadian blues" by Shelagh Rogers at CBC Radio One.
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Twice a Blues Music Award nominee for 'Best Acoustic Blues Album', he has had ten number one independent radio chart hit albums.
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The song was later recorded by The Blues Brothers for a scene in the movie, The Blues Brothers, but was cut out.
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Over the years the biggest names in blues have been associated with the program, and important blues artists continue to perform live.
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In 2020 he began hosting "Raoul's Blues" a two hour blues music and interview broadcast on Jazzcast a 24 hour streaming station.
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Blue Horizon is a blues album by American blues guitarist and singer Rory Block, it was released on 1983 by Rounder Records.
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The book won the Blues Foundation's prestigious Keeping the Blues Alive Award (formerly known as the Handy Awards) in Literature for 2010.
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Retrieved 2009-11-18. He plays bass in a Vermont-based blues band, Deep Freyed.Deep Freyed Blues Band . Retrieved 2009-11-18.
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He would later record his debut solo album, Stranger Things Have Happened, in 1994, touring with his blues band Shoe Suede Blues.
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Carl Rutherford (April 25, 1929 – January 28, 2006) was an American Piedmont blues, country blues, and Appalachian music guitarist, singer and songwriter.
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Aside from "rank[ing] among the most influential harp players in the Blues", Butterfield has also been seen as pointing blues-based music in new, innovative directions. AllMusic critic Steve Huey commented, In 2006, Butterfield was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame, which noted that "the albums released by the Butterfield Blues Band brought Chicago Blues to a generation of Rock fans during the 1960s and paved the way for late 1960s electric groups like Cream". The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 2015. The induction biography commented that "the Butterfield Band converted the country-blues purists and turned on the Fillmore generation to the pleasures of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Willie Dixon and Elmore James".
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Graham, "I Have Got The Blues To Day!" The song as composed by Blessner is in 2/4 time with the tempo as Allegretto. "I Have Got The Blues To Day!" is often cited as being the first "blues"-titled song.
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Post-vacation blues (Canada and US), post-holiday blues (UK, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries), vacation/holiday blues or post-travel depression (PTD) is a type of mood that persons returning home from a long trip (usually a vacation) may experience.
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Blues Activate Oshie from Injured Reserve: Blues forward will return from injury and is expected to play vs. Kings NHL.com (Jan. 18, 2011) On January 20, the Blues updated the status of two forwards with concussions: Andy McDonald and David Perron.
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"Pony Blues" is a Delta blues song recorded by blues musician Charley Patton. Patton recorded the song in June 1929 during his very first session. The song was also the first song to be released by Patton on the Paramount label.
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They are complex and intuitive and can be very opinionated. Blues can also be emotional and moody. Blues can be self-righteous and insecure and can also be very self- disciplined and sincere. ; Strengths Blues are steady, ordered and enduring.
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The Sarasota Blues Fest was started in 1991 by the Sarasota Blues Society. They went bankrupt in 1992. Concert producer Barbara Strauss took over the Sarasota Blues Fest in 1993. The festival is now incorporated by Strauss's company, Sovereign Ventures, Inc.
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Jesse "Babyface" Thomas (February 3, 1911 – August 15, 1995) was an American Texas blues guitarist and singer. Known at different times as "Baby Face" or "Mule", and occasionally billed as "The Blues Troubadour", his career performing blues music extended eight decades.
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She now leads the band Blue Points. She is the only white vocalist who performs regularly at internationally known Chicago blues clubs. She is a regular performer at the Chicago Blues Festival and a member of Chicago Women in the Blues.
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Made Up Mind is the second studio album from blues-rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band. It was released August 20, 2013 by Masterworks Records. In 2014, it won a Blues Music Award in the 'Rock Blues Album of the Year' category.
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Shain was the winner of the North Carolina's Indy Award for Best Folk Act in 2006. In 2008 and 2018 he won the Triangle Blues Society's Blues Challenge. He was the 2019 International Blues Challenge winner in the solo/duo category.
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The album was recorded at the Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley, California, in August 1992. "Lu's Blues" is played at a slow tempo; "Elephant Blossom Blues" is much faster; and "Blues for Rhonda" "emphasizes a percussive, boogie woogie-like approach".
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"Terry Robb, When I Play My Blues Guitar." Blues Revue, No. 80, Feb./March 2003. His second Burnside release, Stop This World, featuring guest artists Maria Muldaur, Eddy Clearwater and Curtis Salgado, topped the Living Blues Radio Chart in 1997.
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W. C. Clark (born Wesley Curley Clark, November 16, 1939) is an American blues musician. He is known as the "Godfather of Austin Blues" First aired in 1990. for his influence on the Austin, Texas blues scene since the late 1960s.
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Steve Strongman is a Canadian blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He has released several full length blues albums, Honey, Blues in Colour, Live at the Barn A Natural Fact, Let Me Prove it to You and No Time Like Now.
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The sophomore release, The Good Girl Blues, focused on the blues but continued to incorporate elements from jazz, hip hop, rock & roll, and other styles.[ Review of The Good Girl Blues], Allmusic A third album, Black John, followed in 2009.
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She was born Mozelle Fagans in Bedford, Ohio, probably in 1904 but possibly as early as 1900. She married and moved to Chicago, Illinois. Alderson recorded three singles released by Black Patti Records in 1927, on which she was accompanied by the pianist Blind James Beck: "Mobile Central Blues", "Tall Man Blues", "Mozelle Blues", "State Street Special", "Sobbin' the Blues" and "Room Rent Blues". She recorded "Tight Whoopee" backed with "Tight in Chicago", released by Brunswick Records in 1930.
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He made several trips to the US in the 1960s to interview and record blues musicians, financed by the State Department and the BBC. Many of his interviews were transcribed in Conversation with the Blues (1965). In 1969 he published The Story of the Blues, "the first comprehensive history of the genre", followed by several other books covering all aspects of blues music. His unfinished research with Mack McCormick on Texas blues is due to be published in 2018.
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In 2015, Gold released his first instructional book for Alfred Music. Entitled "Sitting In: Blues Piano," it features backing tracks and improv lessons, and includes progressions in essential blues styles, like boogie woogie, shuffle, gospel, blues-rock, swing blues, and others. Audio recordings contain sample solos, while the book provides tips focusing on scales, modes, comping patterns, and other ideas for developing an authentic blues vocabulary. The recordings feature a live band with piano, guitar, bass, harmonica, and drums.
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His compositions "Trouble Hearted Blues" and "Left Alone Blues" are his most recognized works. He was an associate of Johnson's, and the two performed regularly together on the medicine show circuit in the early 1930s. Bracey played the blues until 1951 when he was ordained as a Baptist minister. Although he would no longer partake in making blues music, Bracey still helped music historian Gayle Dean Wardlow in 1963 gather information on Delta blues musicians, most notably Skip James.
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Dussault and his band have opened for blues performers and rock groups including Johnny Winter,Canton Blues Festival, 19 June 2009 Glen Schwartz,Roger Martin Benefit Concert, Cleveland Agora, 26 April 1998. Valerie Wellington,Fourth Annual Legendary Blues Festival, Meadowridge Farm, Windsor, Ohio, 1995. Big Jack Johnson and the Oilers, Joe Bonamassa, and Duke Robillard;Mohican Blues Festival, Loudonville, Ohio, 16 Aug 2003. Billy Branch, James Cotton, and Carey Bell;Blues at the Zoo, Cleveland Zoo, 15 Aug 1999.
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Harris, p. 484. Among the 14 sides she recorded between 1921 and 1926 were covers of some of the most popular blues of the day, such as "Royal Garden Blues", "Crazy Blues", and "Arkansas Blues". She also recorded "I'm Gonna Jazz My Way Right Straight Thru Paradise" and "Take Your Finger Off It". Her complete recordings have been reissued in CD format by Document Records on Female Blues Singers Volume 13: R/S (1921–1931) (DOCD-5517).
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"Wild Women Don't Have the Blues", "Wild Women Don't Get the Blues", or simply "Wild Women" is a vaudeville-style blues song recorded by American singer Ida Cox with Lovie Austin's Blues Serenaders in 1924. It has a strong feminist message. The song has been performed by numerous classic female blues singers, including Bessie Smith. Later renditions include those by Francine Reed, Barbara Dane, Nancy Harrow, Sue Keller, as well as Cass Elliot with The Big 3.
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Parker was the Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year in 2005, and winner of the Gail Rich Award for excellence in the arts in 2000. She was dubbed 'Best Blues Artist' at the California Music Awards in 1998, and was nominated for the 'Best Soul Blues Female Artist' at the Blues Music Awards in 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012. In 2015, she posthumously won a Blues Music Award as the 'Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year'.
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Both Handy and Arthur Seals were Negroes, but the music that they titled 'blues' is more or less derived from the standard popular musical styles of the 'coon-song' and 'cake-walk' type. It is ironic the first published piece in the Negro "blues idiom, 'Dallas Blues,' was by a white man, Hart Wand." The song, although written in standard blues tempo,Wand, "Dallas Blues", p. 2. is often performed in a ragtime or Dixieland style.
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"The Reader's guide to the 32nd annual Chicago Blues Festival" The Chicago Reader. 10 June 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2016 Blues & Rhythm (UK) said, “Without sounding like I'm going over the top with praise, this release is terrific and top heavy with superb musicianship and quality material and is worthy of any blues lover's attention. It also highlights the cream of the next generation of blues musicians starting to make their names on the Chicago blues scene.
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Bobby Rush (born Emmett Ellis, Jr. in Homer, Louisiana on November 10, 1933) is an American blues musician, composer and singer. His style incorporates elements of blues, rap and funk. Rush has won twelve Blues Music Awards and in 2017, at the age of 83, he won his first Grammy Award for the album Porcupine Meat. He is inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, and Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame.
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In 2004, during the final stages of mixing the CD Jesse died due to an accident at home. As a memorial and tribute to Jesse, the Pearly Gates CD was released in 2004 as Son Piedmont and the Blues Krewe on the Roots Blues Reborn label. In 2009, Little Joe took first place at the International Blues Challenge held each year in Memphis, Tennessee by the Blues Foundation. Little Joe was representing the Blues Society of Tulsa.
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Kostelanetz 1997, p. 146. It sparked a touring schedule that continued throughout King's career. In 1956, the song was included on King's first album, Singin' the Blues. It has remained in King's repertoire and he has recorded several versions of the song, including a 2000 release with Eric Clapton for their Riding with the King album. In 2020, the Blues Foundation inducted "3 O’Clock Blues" into the Blues Hall of Fame as a "Classic of Blues Recording".
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The popularity of the program made Helena a major blues center. Helena became a stopping place for blues musicians on their way from the Delta region to the Chicago blues nightclubs and was also convenient to Memphis, Tennessee and its lively blues culture. Several blues musicians came to Helena and made it their home, such as Little Walter Jacobs and Jimmy Rogers. King Biscuit Time was also a major breakthrough for African-American music in general.
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"Goin' Down Slow" or "Going Down Slow" is a blues song composed by American blues singer St. Louis Jimmy Oden. It is considered a blues standard and "one of the most famous blues of all". "Goin' Down Slow" has been recorded by many blues and other artists, including a noteworthy version by Howlin' Wolf with narration by Willie Dixon. A rendition by Bobby Bland was a hit in both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B; charts.
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Tommy Z is an American electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and audio engineer, who has released three albums to date. He has been described as a "blues treasure" by Jim Santella (WBFO), and as "one of WNY's best kept secrets" by Sarah French of Blues Matters! magazine. In 2007, he was inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame. His 2016 album, Blizzard of Blues, debuted at number 8 in the Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart.
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Chris James and Patrick Rynn are an American electric blues and Chicago blues duo, comprising James on lead guitar and vocals and Rynn on bass guitar and backing vocals. They first met in 1990 in Chicago. Their debut album, Stop and Think About It, was nominated for a 2009 Blues Music Award. "Mister Coffee", a track from the album, was nominated for a Blues Blast Award as Best Blues Song and won third place in the Independent Music Awards.
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Percy Lee Strother (July 23, 1946 – May 29, 2005) was an American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. After a tragic start in life, from the mid 1970s, Strother went on to become a mainstay of the Minneapolis blues scene. His music was a blend of blues, rhythm and blues and Memphis soul, and his more noteworthy songs included "Blow Wind Blow", "Down Home Blues", "Killing Floor", "Grits Ain't Groceries", "Red Rooster", and "Take My Love".
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Potliquor played a south Louisiana-tinged version of Southern rock. Combining references to their native Louisiana in many of their album and song titles and lyrics ("Down the River Boogie", "Ol’ Man River", "Riverboat", "Levee Blues", "Waiting for Me at the River", "Louisiana Rock & Roll", "Red Stick", "Louisiana Lady") with lead singer George Ratzlaff's powerful, gospel/soul voice, Potliquor became a part of the Southern rock wave of the early 1970s. Much of their music was blues-based as revealed in song titles such as "Levee Blues", "Rooster Blues", "Taj and Jimmy’s Blues", "St. Jude’s Blues", and several songs were gospel-based ("When God Dips His Love in My Heart", "Beyond the River Jordan", "H", "St. Jude’s Blues").
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The album and several of the songs it contains have been influential. According to 2006's Encyclopedia of the Blues, the song "Hide Away" has become "[o]ne of the most popular blues instrumentals of all time", a "mandatory staple of blues bands" at its time and "a standard for countless blues and rock musicians performing today." All Music Guide to the Blues indicates that in addition to "Hide Away", which it describes as "Freddie King's signature tune and most influential recording", several of the other songs on the album also became blues classics, including "San-Ho-Zay" and "The Stumble". Encyclopedia of the Blues adds that "Sen-Sa-Shun", too, became a favorite songs for instrumental bands.
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In 1941, Roach's parents moved from South Carolina to Washington, D.C., where the twenty-seven-year-old Roach later heard regional musicians John Jackson, John Cephas and Archie Edwards, who became his mentors in traditional Piedmont blues guitar. Upon relocating to the UK, Roach became active on the European blues scene, and founded the European Blues Association (EBA) with writer/historian Dr. Paul Oliver, MBE in 1997. The European Blues Association became a registered charity in 2002, and Roach currently serves as its director. In 2000, Michael Roach founded "Blues Week", an annual residential program of lectures and instruction in country blues guitar, harmonica, blues piano and vocals at Northampton University (UK).
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The band's international fame is partially due to three of its songs, the originals "I've Got Everything I Need (Almost)" and "Shot Gun Blues", and its adaptation of "Flip, Flop and Fly", all from its 1973 album, Straight Up, being featured on the first Blues Brothers album, Briefcase Full of Blues (1978).Comedian Dan Aykroyd, is viewed as having developed the Blues Brothers based in part on what he had seen in the Walsh brothers. Aykroyd modeled Elwood Blues on Donnie Walsh, while John Belushi's Jake Blues character was modeled on Hock Walsh. See Jim Slotek, Bye to blues brother: Downchild's Donnie Walsh talks about late sibling, Jam! Music, February 4, 2000; www.jam.canoe.ca.
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Over the years Hummel has also toured or recorded with Sue Foley, Charles Brown, Brownie McGhee, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Bob Stroger, Dave Myers, Jimmy Pugh, Kid Andersen, Ron Thompson, Junior Watson, Duke Robillard, Steve Freund, Billy Flynn and Frank "Paris Slim" Goldwasser. Hummel has also toured with Lowell Fulson, Jimmy Rogers, Luther Tucker and Eddie Taylor; live recordings from those tours are available on his CD compilation Chicago Blues Party: Recorded Live! 1980–1992. In addition to playing in blues clubs across the U.S. and throughout Europe, Hummel and the Blues Survivors have performed at the San Francisco Blues Festival, the Sonora Blues Festival, the Chicago Blues Festival, the King Biscuit Blues Festival, and the Monterey Jazz Festival.
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It has hosted many legendary blues performers during that time, and is now one of the most prominent blues venues in the region.
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The Hamburg Blues Band is a German blues band, notable for its associations with prominent English musicians as invited guests and band members.
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On September 2, 2020, the Blues traded goaltender Jake Allen, who had spent ten years in the Blues organization, to the Montreal Canadiens.
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Franklin, Benjamin (2016). An Encyclopedia of South Carolina Jazz & Blues Musicians. University of South Carolina Press. . The blues historians Paul OliverOliver, P. (1984).
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Joe Carter (November 6, 1927 - June 15, 2001) was an American blues slide guitarist and singer, formerly active on the Chicago blues scene.
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The Dublin Blues are an Irish rugby league team from Dublin, Ireland. The Blues will play in the 2021 Euro XIII's cup competition.
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Raw Blues Power is a collaborative Blues rock album by guitarist Paul Gilbert and his uncle Jimi Kidd. It was released in 2002.
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Rebel Galaxy uses licensed blues rock and country rock tracks from artists including Blues Saraceno, Nick Nolan, The Blue News, and Abbas Premjee.
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"Bad Penny Blues" is a fast instrumental blues written by Humphrey Lyttelton and recorded with his band in London on 20 April 1956.
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Humphrey, Mark A. (1993). "Bright Lights, Big City: Urban Blues". In: Cohn, L. Nothing But the Blues. New York: Abbeville Press, p. 169.
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Subsequently, Belushi invited Radcliff to perform in the very first Blues Brother's show, featuring Belushi and Roomful Of Blues. Radcliff's career continued to heat up and in 1984 he recorded "Early In the Morning", his first 33 RPM album, and by 1987 he began recording and performing full-time. Between 1989- and 1998, Radcliff released five albums on the Black Top Record label: "Dresses Too Short", "Universal Blues", "There's A Cold Grave In Your Way", "Live At The Rynborn" and "Live At Tipitina's." He toured extensively all over the world, performing at many premiere American and European festivals including the Berlin Jazz Festival, The Peer Festival in Belgium, The Byron Bay Blues Festival in Australia, the Warrnambool Festival in Australia, the Harvest Blues Festival in Ireland, the Lugano Blues Festival in Switzerland, the Lucerne Blues Festival in Switzerland, the Malmitalo Festival in Finland, The Aguas Blues Festival in Aguascalieutes Mexico, the Granada Jazz and Blues Festival in Spain, the San Remo Blues Festival in Italy, and the Café Volga Festival in Japan.
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Chet Weise is an enthusiastic and avid proponent of the often-underground punk blues style. The Immortal Lee County Killers has been called "Truly the place where punk meets the blues." Weise often referred to punk blues as the "fucked up blues" and the "real punk blues". Taking influence from Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Pussy Galore, MC5, Skip James, Bad Brains and The Gun Club, ILCK approached the punk blues genre with reverence and originality, lending credibility to a genre that had sometimes been previously employed as a musically ironic post-punk and garage rock aesthetic.
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These were originally earmarked for Vocalion Records or Brunswick Records. On October 12, 1929, in Richmond, Indiana, Wiggins recorded another four sides, "Forty-Four Blues", "Frisco Bound", "My Lovin' Blues" and "Weary Heart Blues" for Paramount, plus another two in Grafton, Wisconsin that the same month. Paramount placed two advertisements in The Chicago Defender; the first on November 30, 1928 (promoting "Keep A Knockin' An You Can't Get In" b/w "Evil Woman Blues") and then on January 25, 1930 (for "Weary Heart Blues" b/w "My Lovin' Blues"). Blind Leroy Garnett played piano accompaniment on the four tracks recorded in Richmond.
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Barrett is a Grammy Nominated blues harmonica player (for his work on John Lee Hooker Jr.'s album All Odds Against Me ) and performs regularly in the California Bay Area (San Francisco Blues Festival, Monterey Bay Blues Festival, etc.) and abroad (Chicago, Germany, etc.). Recently he played as a featured artist in Mark Hummel's Blues Harmonica Blowouts, alongside James Cotton, Charlie Musselwhite, Kim Wilson, and Mark Hummel. Barrett has recorded three albums, Serious Fun, We Are The Blues and History of the Blues Harmonica Concert. He has also released It Takes Three, a project with Gary Smith and Aki Kumar.
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Blues rock combines blues with rock. With some notable exceptions, blues rock has largely been played by white musicians, bringing a rock sensitivity to blues standards and forms and it played a major role in widening the appeal of the blues to white American audiences. In 1963, American guitarist Lonnie Mack had developed a blues rock guitar style, releasing several guitar instrumentals, the best-known of which are the hit singles "Memphis" (Billboard #5) and "Wham!" (Billboard #24).P. Prown, H. P. Newquist, J. F. Eiche, Legends of rock guitar: the essential reference of rock's greatest guitarists (Hal Leonard Corporation, 1997), p. 25.
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Holmes also started playing other blues festivals across Mississippi, the United States, Europe and South America including the Chicago Blues Festival, Waterfront Blues Festival, Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, Muddy Roots Music Festival, Briggs Farm Blues Festival, amongst others. In 2003, Holmes recorded his first album over the course of three days at the Pluto Plantation for Shade Tree Records. It was a blues label started by Peter Lee, although the company folded before it ever released the recordings. Then in October 2005, Jeff Konkel visited the Blue Front Cafe and returned on November 17, 2005, to record Holmes.
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For six years in Calgary and in Victoria, he was teamed with his brother Sandy Hucul. In the 1955-56 season Hucul scored 21 goals and 38 assists. Upon the NHL's expansion, Hucul signed with the St. Louis Blues and began their inaugural season on the Blues blue line. However, before the playoffs he was sent to the Blues' minor league team the Kansas City Blues in the Central Hockey League where he replaced Doug Harvey as the Kansas City Blues coach and general manager, after Harvey was called up to the parent Blues for the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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Roomful of Blues is an American blues and swing revival big band based in Rhode Island. With a recording career that spans over 50 years, they have toured worldwide and recorded many albums. Roomful of Blues, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, "Swagger, sway and swing with energy and precision".Wisser, Jeff. Chicago Sun-Times, March 23, 2003 Since 1967, the group’s blend of swing, rock and roll, jump blues, boogie-woogie and soul has earned it five Grammy Award nominations and many other accolades, including seven Blues Music Awards (with a victory as Blues Band Of The Year in 2005).
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A version of the song can be seen on Dr. Feelgood's "Going Back Home" show from 1975 which was released on DVD back in 2005. Dr. Feelgood also covered the song on their second album Malpractise from 1975. The Grateful Dead covered the song live in concert many times under many different names, including "Minglewood Blues," "The New Minglewood Blues," "The All-New Minglewood Blues," and "The New New Minglewood Blues." Despite the similarity in title "New Minglewood Blues" was a different song, originally recorded on November 26, 1930 by Noah Lewis (who had played on Cannon's original "Minglewood Blues").
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"Walkin' Blues" or "Walking Blues" is a blues standard written and recorded by American Delta blues musician Son House in 1930. Although unissued at the time, it was part of House's repertoire and other musicians, including Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, adapted the song and recorded their own versions. Besides "Walking Blues", Johnson's 1936 rendition incorporates melodic and rhythmic elements from House's "My Black Mama" (which House also used for his "Death Letter") and slide guitar techniques Johnson learned from House. In 1941, Waters recorded the song with some different lyrics as "Country Blues" in his first field recording session for Alan Lomax.
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The "territory bands" operating out of Kansas City, the Bennie Moten orchestra, Jay McShann, and the Count Basie Orchestra were also concentrating on the blues, with 12-bar blues instrumentals such as Basie's "One O'Clock Jump" and "Jumpin' at the Woodside" and boisterous "blues shouting" by Jimmy Rushing on songs such as "Going to Chicago" and "Sent for You Yesterday". A well-known big band blues tune is Glenn Miller's "In the Mood". In the 1940s, the jump blues style developed. Jump blues grew up from the boogie woogie wave and was strongly influenced by big band music.
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Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (born Gertrude Pridgett, April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was one of the earliest African-American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of blues singers to record. The "Mother of the Blues", she bridged earlier vaudeville and the authentic expression of southern blues, influencing a generation of blues singers. The singer began performing as a teenager and became known as Ma Rainey after her marriage to Will Rainey, in 1904. They toured with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and later formed their own group, Rainey and Rainey, Assassinators of the Blues.
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"Sweet Home Chicago" performed at the White House with Barack Obama joining B.B. King on the chorus Blues standards are blues songs that have attained a high level of recognition due to having been widely performed and recorded. They represent the best known and most interpreted blues songs that are seen as having permanent value. Blues standards come from different eras and styles, such as ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and country blues, and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast. Many are also performed in styles that differ from the originals and reflect various music trends, including rhythm and blues and rock.
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Blues Point as seen from the west, with Blues Point Tower and Sydney Harbour Bridge behind Blues Point is a harbourside locality of North Sydney, Australia. Named after local mariner Billy Blue in the 19th century, Blues Point is at the very southern tip of the McMahons Point peninsula and has views of Sydney Harbour. The locality, within North Sydney Council, is home to the Blues Point Tower, a controversial residential tower designed by Harry Seidler. Since 2005, under the dual naming policy Blues Point has also been officially referred to by its indigenous name, Warungareeyuh.
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In January 1935, he recorded "Dirty Mistreater" and "Rainy Day Blues", the former of which adopted guitar lines from Johnson. Lofton may have also been an uncredited guitarist for recordings completed by Kansas Joe McCoy later in the year. In November 1935, Lofton recorded his two most highly regarded songs of his brief recording career with pianist Black Bob Hudson on Bluebird Records, "Beer Garden Blues" and a rendition of Johnson's "Big Road Blues", retitled "Dark Road Blues". Plastic Crimewave praised Lofton's rewritten lyrics on "Dark Road Blues" as a "part of the DNA of the entire blues tradition".
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Together they recorded "Once I Had a Car", which appeared on the compilation album Mississippi Delta & South Tennessee Blues (1977). He retired from full-time work in 1989, and having been urged by his good friend Thomas, Cusic returned to performing with an acoustic guitar. He appeared at the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival in Greenville, Mississippi, the Sunflower River Blues Festival, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and the Chicago Blues Festival. In 1998, Cusic made a "field recording" at his house in Leland and delivered versions of several blues standards in his own pure Mississippi blues styling.
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Since then the festival has grown and expanded each year, and draws attendees from all over the United States and around the world gathering to hear Delta-style blues. In 2015 the festival presented mainly blues-rock on the main stage. The Back Porch stage presented a mix of local, regional and national blues musicians."Live Show Reviews: Briggs Farm Blues Festival".
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Trampled Under Foot was an American soul blues and blues rock band. The original trio consisted of the siblings Danielle Schnebelen (lead vocals and bass), Nick Schnebelen (guitars and vocals) and Kris Schnebelen (drums and vocals). The band was the winner of the International Blues Challenge in 2008. Their 2013 album, Badlands, reached number one on the US Billboard Blues Albums Chart.
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Acoustic Roots (2005) followed, which peaked at number 20 on the Living Blues chart. In 2006, Farrell teamed up with Steve Guyger to produce the traditional blues- orientated, Down Home Old School Country Blues. Stuck On The Blues (2007) was another largely acoustic joint affair, this time with the Italian harmonicist, Marco Pandolfi. Camino de Sanlucar (2009) was recorded in Seville, Spain.
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William Clarke (March 21, 1951 – November 2, 1996) was an American blues harmonica player and singer. He was chiefly associated with the Chicago blues style of amplified harmonica, but also incorporated elements of jump blues, swing, and soul jazz into his playing. Clarke was a master of both cross and chromatic harmonica styles and many consider him among the blues harmonica greats.
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In 2012, the station's management Global Jazz cut a full day from the blues program. During his 2012 summer pledge drive, Wagner successfully led an on-air revolt to bring back the Saturday show. Listeners overwhelmingly stepped up to demonstrate their commitment to the blues, and the additional day of blues programming was reinstated. He is a member of the Blues Foundation.
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Pearl Dickson (born Pearl Dixon, October 5, 1903 - October 24, 1977) was an American Memphis and country blues singer and songwriter. She recorded four songs, "High Yellow Blues", "Twelve Pound Daddy", "Little Rock Blues", and "Guitar Rag". Of these, only "Twelve Pound Daddy" and "Little Rock Blues" were issued. Little is known of Dickson's life outside of her short recording career.
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What drove the blues to international influence was the promotion of record companies such as Paramount Records, RCA Victor, and Columbia Records. Through such record companies Chicago blues became a commercial enterprise. The new style of music eventually reached Europe and the United Kingdom. In the 1960s, young British musicians were highly influenced by Chicago blues resulting in the British blues movement.
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"Young Man Blues" is a song by jazz artist Mose Allison. Allison first recorded it in March 1957 for his debut album, Back Country Suite, in which it appears under the title "Back Country Suite: Blues." In Allison's two-CD compilation set of 2002, Allison Wonderland, Allison reveals that the tune's full title is: "Back Country Suite: Blues (a.k.a. 'Young Man's Blues')".
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The song is included on numerous Brown compilation albums, such as the Philo–Aladdin compilations The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Charles Brown and Driftin' Blues: The Best of Charles Brown. It is also included on many collections by various artists, such as the box sets Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey and The Blues: A Smithsonian Collection of Classic Blues Singers.
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Mark Paul "Corky" Siegel (born October 24, 1943) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and composer. He plays harmonica and piano. He plays and writes blues and blues-rock music, and has also worked extensively on combining blues and classical music. He is best known as the co-leader of the Siegel-Schwall Band, and as the leader of the Chamber Blues group.
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The Republican Blues were a military company formed in Savannah, Georgia. The Blues were first organized in 1808 and served at Fort Jackson and in Florida during the War of 1812. The Blues, typical of Savannah's old military units, were a fraternal social organization and a well-trained military unit. The Blues defended Georgia's coast from the Union Navy between 1861 and 1864.
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This article is about the album Bootleg by Canadian blues group Downchild Blues Band. For the album by Kenshi Yonezu, see Bootleg (Kenshi Yonezu album). Bootleg is the 1971 debut album from the Canadian blues group the Downchild Blues Band. Having been rehearsing and playing live shows since 1969, the band proceeded to create one of Canada's earliest independent records.
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"Rollin' and Tumblin'" (or "Roll and Tumble Blues") is a blues song first recorded by American singer/guitarist Hambone Willie Newbern in 1929. Called a "great Delta blues classic", it has been interpreted by hundreds of Delta and Chicago blues artists, including well-known recordings by Muddy Waters. "Rollin' and Tumblin'" has also been refashioned by a variety of rock-oriented artists.
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Aykroyd participated in the recording of "We Are the World" in 1985, as a member of the chorus. He wrote the liner notes for fellow Ottawa-born blues musician JW-Jones's album Bluelisted in 2008. Until 2018, he hosted the internationally syndicated radio show "Elwood's BluesMobile", formerly known as House of Blues Radio Hour, under his Blues Brothers moniker Elwood Blues.
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Nighthawk was elected into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1983. In 2007, The Mississippi Blues Commission honored Nighthawk with a historical marker in Friars Point, Mississippi, on the Mississippi Blues Trail. The marker was placed at Friars Point because Nighthawk called the town his home at various times in his itinerant career. He recorded the song "Friars Point Blues" in 1940.
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Annika Chambers is an American soul blues singer and songwriter. Chambers has released three albums, and she won a Blues Music Award in 2019 in the 'Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year' category. Her sophomore release, Wild & Free, debuted at number 7 on the Billboard Blues Albums Chart. Her third album, Kiss My Sass, was released in August 2019.
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Halak, Blues shut out Wild; Steen scores twice NHL.com (November 26, 2013) On November 27, Steen scored his 20th goal, tying Alexander Ovechkin for the NHL lead, in the Blues' fifth consecutive win. The Blues were 10–1–1 in their past 12 games for a 19–3–3 record and 41 points.Red-hot Blues handle Avalanche to start road trip NHL.
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Tony Russell "Charles" Brown (September 13, 1922 - January 21, 1999) was an American blues singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced blues-club style influenced blues performance in the 1940s and 1950s. Between 1949 and 1952, Brown had seven Top 10 hits in the U.S. Billboard R&B; chart. His best- selling recordings included "Driftin' Blues" and "Merry Christmas Baby".
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Two Big M's (2008) peaked at number six on the Living Blues chart, and was nominated for the best self-produced CD by the Blues Foundation. Keep the Blues Alive (2010) contained more of Tucker's own compositions. In 2009 and 2011, Tucker performed at the Briggs Farm Blues Festival. In 2010, Tucker, now officially named Regina B. Westbrook, was residing in Columbus, Ohio.
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In the late 1990s, Pickett returned to the studio and received a Grammy Award nomination for the 1999 album It's Harder Now. The comeback resulted in his being honored as Soul/Blues Male Artist of the Year by the Blues Foundation in Memphis. It's Harder Now was voted 'Comeback Blues Album of the Year' and 'Soul/Blues Album of the Year.
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"Rumble Blues" (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 1:49 :13. "Rumble Blues" (False Start) (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 0:49 :14. "Rumble Blues" (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 3:28 :15. "Rumble Blues" (Milt Grant, Link Wray) — 2:32 :16. "Lonesome Town" (Baker Knight) — 4:13 1982 A&M; Studio :17. "Five Years Ahead of My Time" (Rusty Evans, Vicky Pike) — 2:10 :18.
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The Sweet Baby Blues Band played Kansas City style blues. Cheatham's Sweet Baby Blues album won a French Grand Prix du Disque. Their album Luv in the Afternoon was voted blues album of the year in a 1991 critics poll in Down Beat magazine. Cheatham also taught jazz at Bennington College in Vermont and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.
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He signed to Blind Pig Records in 1990 and released his second album, Cuttin' Loose, then released Can't Buy A Break in 1992 and Somewhere Along the Way in 1995. 2018 brought more nominations, including Blues Music Awards Guitarist of the Year, Blues Blast Awards Best Males Blues Artist and Best Contemporary Blues Album for the 2017 release, Chris Cain.
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He first discovered blues in his mid-teens. "Getting into blues made me want to play music," he says. He played in blues-rock bands while learning to sing with soulful authority. The two met at an open mic session in their hometown of Wichita, Kansas in 2001 and they quickly bonded and formed an acoustic duo playing traditional and delta blues.
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The Blues have fielded a development team in competitions such as the Pacific Rugby Cup and in matches against other representative teams for several seasons. Known as the Blues Development XV, the squad is selected from the best emerging rugby talent in the Blues catchment area and is composed of Blues contracted players, wider training group members, under 20s, and selected club players.
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Matriarch of the Blues received mixed critical reception. Following its release, the album reached a peak position of number two on Billboard Top Blues Albums chart. Billboards final issue for 2001 included Matriarch as number ten on its list of Top Blues Albums for the year. The album was nominated for Best Contemporary Blues Album at the 44th Grammy Awards.
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Pierre Lacocque is an acclaimedMississippi Heat's Warning Shot", 2014, Charlie Musselwhite on CD back cover: "I just listened to WARNING SHOT and it is a delight. Real blues lovers won't have to go through any "rocked up" shenanigans here because Mississippi Heat are true "Keepers of The Blues Flame". Each tune has something special. There's down home country blues and uptown blues.
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Handy, Father (1941), p. 99. The publication of his "Memphis Blues" sheet music in 1912 introduced the 12-bar blues to the world (although Gunther Schuller argues that it is not really a blues, but "more like a cakewalk"Schuller (1968: 66, 145n.)). This composition, as well as his later "St. Louis Blues" and others, included the habanera rhythm,W.
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Guitar Facts. p. 76. Moore was his first significant blues influence. He was a local blues guitarist who, in Shreveport, Louisiana, learned to play a droning, one-chord blues that was strikingly different from the Delta blues of the time. Another influence was Tony Hollins, who dated Hooker's sister Alice, helped teach Hooker to play, and gave him his first guitar.
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Eric Clapton in Barcelona, 1974 Rock and blues have historically always been closely linked, with driving rhythms and electric guitar techniques such as distortion and power chords already used by 1950s blues guitarists, particularly Memphis bluesmen such as Joe Hill Louis, Willie Johnson and Pat Hare.Robert Palmer, "Church of the Sonic Guitar", pp. 13–38 in Anthony DeCurtis, Present Tense, Duke University Press, 1992, pp. 24–27. . Characteristics that blues rock adopted from electric blues include its dense texture, basic blues band instrumentation,Michael Campbell & James Brody, Rock and Roll: An Introduction, pages 80–81 rough declamatory vocal style, heavy guitar riffs, string-bending blues-scale guitar solos, strong beat, thick riff-laden texture, and posturing performances.Michael Campbell & James Brody (2007), Rock and Roll: An Introduction, page 201 Precursors to blues rock included the Chicago blues musicians Elmore James, Albert King, and Freddie King, who began incorporating rock and roll elements into their blues music during the late 1950s to early 1960s.
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Robert W. "Rabon" Tarrant (December 25, 1908 - October 11, 1975) was an American jump blues and jazz drummer, singer and songwriter. His most notable composition was "Blues with a Feeling", later recorded by Little Walter and many other musicians, becoming a blues standard.
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Post vacation blues may result in tiredness, loss of appetite, strong feelings of nostalgia, and in some cases, depression. Jet lag may intensify the post vacation blues. According to an article in The Mirror, 57% of British travellers reported experiencing post-holiday blues.
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"Ragged & Dirty" is an old southern blues song popular in Memphis and other cities of Tennessee and Mississippi. The song was recorded and improvised by many southern blues artists in the 1920s, 1930s and is still covered by many new young blues musicians.
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Joanne Shaw Taylor (born 1985, England) is a British blues rock guitarist and singer who was discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics at the age of 16. The British music publication Blues Matters! called Taylor "the new face of the blues".
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Amelia ("Amy") van Singel (October 11, 1949 - September 19, 2016) was an American blues journalist and radio host. She co-founded Living Blues magazine with her then husband, Jim O'Neal, and was posthumously inducted to the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017.
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Billboard called the band "a tour de force of horn-fried blues…Roomful is so tight and so right."Van Vleck, Phillip. [ Billboard], January 22, 2005 The Down Beat International Critics Poll has twice selected Roomful of Blues as Best Blues Band.
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Ernest Joseph "Tabby" Thomas, (January 5, 1929 – January 1, 2014), also known as Rockin' Tabby Thomas, was an American blues musician. He sang and played the piano and guitar and specialized in swamp blues, a style of blues indigenous to southern Louisiana.
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The Big Bad Blues is the second studio album by American rock musician Billy Gibbons. The album was released on September 21, 2018, by Concord Records. At the 40th Blues Music Awards, the album was named as 'Blues Rock Album of the Year'.
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Indianola is the birthplace of the blues musician Albert King. The blues harp player, Little Arthur Duncan, was born in Indianola in 1934. B.B. King grew up in Indianola as a child. He came to the blues festival named after him every year.
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H. Franklin "Baby" Seals (c. 1880 - December 29, 1915) was an American vaudeville performer, songwriter and pianist, whose successful 1912 song "Baby Seals' Blues" was one of the first published blues compositions, predating W. C. Handy's "The Memphis Blues" by several months.
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Though the use of the phrase in African-American music may be older, it has been attested to in print since 1912, when Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" became the first copyrighted blues composition.Davis, Francis (1995). The History of the Blues. New York: Hyperion.
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Evans, David. In Nothing but the Blues. pp. 33–35. The first noncommercial recordings of blues music, termed proto- blues by Paul Oliver, were made by Odum for research purposes at the very beginning of the 20th century. They are now lost.
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Sam Collins (August 11, 1887October 20, 1949), sometimes known as Crying Sam Collins, was an early American blues singer and guitarist. His style has been described as "South Mississippi", rather than Delta blues and "The Jail House Blues" is his best-known recording.
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During his periods away from Downchild, Hock Walsh continued to play regularly. In 1978, he was a founding member of what would become the Cameo Blues Band, a legendary Toronto house band playing blues and rhythm and blues music at the Hotel Isabella.
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Loretta was released in February 2015. Mighty Gates was released in October 2017 on Vision Wall Records. Murphy was nominated for the 2020 Independent Blues Award in five categories: Contemporary Blues CD, Female Artist, Traditional Blues Song, RNB Song, and Road Warrior.
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Larry James Hamilton (March 23, 1951 – December 28, 2011) was an American New Orleans blues, rhythm-and-blues and soul blues singer and songwriter. He was a professional musician since the mid-1960s, but his solo debut album was released only in 1997.
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Blues singer Bessie Smith Blues musicians such as Muddy Waters brought the Delta Blues, played mostly with acoustic instruments, from the Mississippi delta north to cities like Chicago, where they used more electric instruments to form the Chicago Blues.Gilliland 1969, show 4.
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Founded in 1995 by local blues stalwart Mike Garner, the Hamilton Blues Society has hosted many of the countries major blues musicians such as Midge Marsden, Ronnie Taylor plus many many more. Over the years the HBS has also hosted artists from overseas.
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Silas Hogan (September 15, 1911 – January 9, 1994) was an American blues musician. His most notable recordings are "Airport Blues" and "Lonesome La La". He was the front man of the Rhythm Ramblers. Hogan was inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame.
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Jon Lord Blues Project was a British blues band consisting of Jon Lord, Pete York, Zoot Money, Maggie Bell, Miller Anderson, and Colin Hodgkinson.
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Featuring only blues chords, it begins as an apparent 12-bar blues, but then diverges from that standard structure into a more distinctive composition.
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Canal Street (was first presented in 1996 as Arendal Jazz & Blues Festival) is a yearly jazz and blues festival in Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway.
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The Society is affiliated with other Blues Societies around the world, such as the Kansas City Blues Society, to which it is specifically linked.
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At the 40th Blues Music Awards, it was named the Best Emerging Artist Album. In 2018, Fish appeared at the Briggs Farm Blues Festival.
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In January 2017, Beaker was inducted as a "Legendary Blues Artist from England" into a Blues Hall of Fame registered in San Diego, California.
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The Dusk Til Dawn Blues Festival is an annual event in Rentiesville, Oklahoma, United States, which attracts many national and internationally known blues artists.
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It was re-released on compilation album Attica Blues Present Drum Major InstinctAttica Blues Present Drum Major Instinct X:treme Records on X:treme Records, 2001.
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Gary Fletcher is a British blues musician, best known for playing bass guitar with The Blues Band, he is also a guitarist and songwriter.
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Fast & the Fuzziest - Part 1 6\. Fast & the Fuzziest - Part 2 7\. The Yeoldefacescroll Blues - Part 1 8\. The Yeoldefacescroll Blues - Part 2 9\.
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The 1926 Hartford Blues season was their only season in the league. The team finished 3–7,1926 Hartford Blues finishing thirteenth in the league.
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Screamin' the Blues is an album by American saxophonist Oliver Nelson,Screamin' the Blues at Jazzdisco.org originally released in 1961 on New Jazz Records.
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Brooks is known as a blues and gospel blues artist. His music reflects influences drawn from bluegrass, country and R&B.; He has released nine albums in his more than 30 years as a performer. Brooks and his band have performed at blues festivals across North America, including at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, the Distillery Blues Festival and the Beaches International Jazz Festival in Toronto, Ottawa Bluesfest, and the Back to the Blues festival in Chilliwack (near Vancouver, British Columbia).
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In 1970, Williams began to perform once again, touring blues and folk festivals throughout the United States and Europe. His music has appeared in several films notably, the Roots of American Music; Country and Urban Music (1971); Out of the Blacks into the Blues (1972) and Blues Under the Skin (1972) the last two being French-made films. His most popular recordings included "Prisoner's Talking Blues" and "Pardon Denied Again". Williams has been inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame.
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Sonny Boy Williamson I recorded "Good Morning, School Girl" in 1937 during his first recording session for Bluebird Records. The song is an uptempo blues with an irregular number of bars. Although identified with Chicago blues, a write-up in the Blues Hall of Fame notes "it was a product of Sonny Boy’s west Tennessee roots and his pre-Chicago ensemble work". The melody has been traced to “Back and Side Blues”, a 1934 blues song recorded by Son Bonds.
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After World War II, amplified blues music became popular in American cities that had seen widespread African American migration, such as Chicago,E. M. Komara, Encyclopedia of the blues (Routledge, 2006), p. 118. Memphis,M. A. Humphry, "Holy Blues: The Gospel Tradition," in L. Cohn, M. K. Aldin and B. Bastin, eds, Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians (Abbeville Press, 1993), p. 179. Detroit,G. Herzhaft, Encyclopedia of the Blues (University of Arkansas Press, 1997), p. 53.
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British blues emerged from the skiffle and folk club scene of the late 1950s, particularly in London, which included the playing of American acoustic blues. Critical was the visit of Muddy Waters in 1958, who initially shocked British audiences by playing amplified electric blues, but who was soon performing to ecstatic crowds and rave reviews.V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra, S. T. Erlewine, eds, All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues (Backbeat, 3rd edn., 2003), pp. 700-2.
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Since her breakthrough commercial success Nick of Time in 1989 Bonnie Raitt has been one of the leading artists in acoustic and electric blues, doing much to promote the profile of older blues artists.R. Weissman, Blues: the basics (Routledge, 2005), pp. 131-2. After the renewed success of John Lee Hooker with his collaborative album The Healer (1989),V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra, S. T. Erlewine, All music guide to the blues: the definitive guide to the blues (Backbeat Books, 3rd edn.
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"Shake Your Moneymaker" or "Shake Your Money Maker" is a song recorded by Elmore James in 1961 that has become a blues standard. Inspired by earlier songs, it has been interpreted and recorded by several blues and other artists. "Shake Your Moneymaker" is included on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of the "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll" and in 2019, the Blues Foundation inducted it into the Blues Hall of Fame as a "Classic of Blues Recording".
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In his latter days, using just a guitar as his accompaniment, he regularly performed locally. He also performed at the Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, the Shed Blues Festival in Ocean Springs, the Blues Today Symposium in Oxford and, in 2007, the Roots and Blues Festival in Parma, Italy. In June 2008, he made his debut appearance at the Chicago Blues Festival. He appeared in the 2008 documentary film M for Mississippi: A Road Trip through the Birthplace of the Blues.
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The Mississippi Blues Commission placed a historic marker at the Peavine Railroad site intersection with Highway 446 in Boyle, designating it as a site on the Mississippi Blues Trail. The marker commemorates the original lyrics of famed blues artist Charlie Patton's "Peavine Blues", which describes the railway branch of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad which ran west from Dockery Plantation to Boyle. A common theme of blues songs was riding on the railroad, which was a metaphor for travel and escape.
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Fannie May Goosby (born 1902, died after 1934) also known as Fannie Mae Goosby was an American classic female blues singer, pianist and songwriter. Ten of her recordings were released between 1923 and 1928, one of which, "Grievous Blues", she recorded twice. Goosby was one of the first female blues musicians to record her own material. She also was one of the first two blues singers to be recorded in the Deep South, the other being the dirty blues singer Lucille Bogan.
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"Trouble in Mind" is a vaudeville blues-style song written by jazz pianist Richard M. Jones. It became an early blues standard, with numerous renditions by a variety of musicians. Although singer Thelma La Vizzo with Jones on piano first recorded the song in 1924, Bertha "Chippie" Hill popularized the song with her 1926 recording with Jones and trumpeter Louis Armstrong. In 2020, the Blues Foundation inducted "Trouble in Mind" into the Blues Hall of Fame as a "Classic of Blues Recording".
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Damn Right, I've Got the Blues is the seventh studio album by Blues guitarist Buddy Guy. The album has been described by Allmusic and Rolling Stone as a commercial comeback album for Guy[ almusic ((( Damn Right I've Got the Blues > Overview )))]link Buddy Guy: Damn Right, I've Got The Blues : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone after limited recording for the previous 10 years. In 2005 the album was reissued as Damn Right, I've Got The Blues Expanded Edition, featuring two bonus tracks.
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R. F. Schwartz, How Britain Got the Blues: the Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), , p. 28. From 1955 major British record labels HMV and EMI (the latter, particularly through their subsidiary Decca Records), began to distribute American jazz and increasingly blues records to the emerging market.R. F. Schwartz, How Britain Got the Blues: the Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), , pp. 22 and 49.
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"North Texas Blues" By Tim Schuller Blues Access No. 20 Winter 1994–1995, pps. 22–29 50. "Niche busters – Six Who Are Kicking Down New Doors" By Tim Schuller Blues Access No. 24 Winter 1996 51. "'Till I Find My Way Home:' The Lost Brownie McGhee Interview" (Brownie McGhee) By Tim Schuller Blues Access No. 26 Summer 1996 52. "Lacy Gibson – Switchy Titchy" (Lacy Gibson) Black Magic 9002 CD Review By Tim Schuller Blues Access No. 27 Fall 1996 53.
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The Topanga Canyon Blues Festival is an annual event held in California, attracting blues acts from across the United States. It began in 1982. Like the Orange County Blues Festival, it attracts some of the major blues artists in the United States. Over the years the festival has been running, it has seen major blues acts such as Etta James, Willie Dixon, Otis Rush, Big Joe Turner, Lowell Fulson, Junior Wells, Pee Wee Crayton, Phil Gates and Jimmy "Preacher" Ellis.
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He also wrote "The Memphis Blues". Memphis bluesis a regional style created by area musicians such as Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis, Memphis Minnie, and Memphis Jug Band in the 1910s-1930s, with stylistic origins in Country blues and Delta blues. Memphis was a center of blues music for much of the 20th century. Pianist and singer Booker T. Laury was born in Memphis in 1914 and Blues Hall of Famers Johnny Shines and Memphis Slimwere born there in 1915.
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Initially developing out of the jazz, skiffle and blues club scenes, early artists tended to focus on major blues performers and standard forms, particularly blues rock musician Alexis Korner, who acted with members of the Rolling Stones, Colosseum, the Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, and the Graham Bond Organisation. Although this interest in the blues would influence major British rock musicians, including Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Peter Green, John Mayall, Free, and Cream adopted an interest in a wider range of rhythm and blues styles.
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Debuting in 1973, the San Francisco Blues Festival was one of the longest running blues festival in the United States. Tom Mazzolini, the event's producer, founded the blues festival to educate the public about the history and evolution of the blues. Many of the performers at the early concerts were the pioneers and originators of the West Coast blues sound. In 2008, Mazzolini announced that after 37 consecutive years, the festival was forced to cease production due to economic reasons.
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Strongman relocated to Hamilton, Ontario in 2007 releasing Honey, his first blues album. The album, consisted of eleven tracks including nine originals, earned good reviews and earned him a Maple Blues Award nomination as well as four nominations at the 2007 Hamilton Music Awards. He toured with his band playing blues clubs across the country, with stops at the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Ottawa Blues Festival and the Tremblant International Blues Festival. He opened for Buddy Guy in Hamilton in 2008.
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It has elements of traditional African music, American folk music, spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. Blues has since evolved from unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves into a wide variety of styles and subgenres, such as country blues, Delta and Piedmont, Chicago, West Coast blues. 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.
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Darling has produced six records for singer, Janiva Magness. Her 2016 release, Love Wins Again, (co-written and produced by Darling) was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. The album debuted at number 5 on the Billboard Blues Chart, number 2 on iTunes Blues, reached number 1 on the Blues radio chart, and spent two months on the Americana radio chart. Their collaborative, I Won't Cry won Song of the Year at the Blues Music Awards in 2013. .
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Guitarist Buddy Guy performing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2006 Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi. Chicago Blues has a more extended palette of notes than the standard six-note blues scale; often, notes from the major scale and dominant 9th chords are added, which gives the music more of a "jazz feel" while still being in the blues genre. Chicago blues is also known for its heavy rolling bass.
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The group has also made many videos and documentaries about their time at Sun Studios and Fame Studios, Muscle Shoals, AL where they recorded their second album entitled, Get Gone "The Muscle Shoals Sessions." Subsequent releases Nothin' To Lose and Shake It followed in 2010 and 2013 respectively. Both albums spent significant time in every major blues chart and the track, "Maybe Baby" landed in the Roadhouse Blues and Boogie Top 40 Chart as compiled by Cashbox and beachshag.com. The 2013 release Shake It was heard world wide on such syndicated blues shows as; Blues Deluxe, Confessing The Blues, Smokestack Lightning, The Americana Music Show (several times), The House of Blues Radio Hour with Dan Aykroyd, Main Street Blues and others.
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Danielle Nicole along with Christone Ingram, did the warm up show for the Fourth Annual Utah Blues Festival June, 2018 at the State Room, headlined with her band, Brandon Miller and Kris Schnebelen at the International Blues Festival in Canada in July 2018 and at the Bean Blossom Blues Festival in Indiana in August 2018. She performed with an orchestra her tribute to Etta James and Aretha Franklin at Knuckleheads Saloon November 2018 and, in February 2019, was part of a cruise and concert at Knuckleheads for the Michael Ledbetter Foundation. Danielle Nicole's awards have included the Independent Blues Award for best contemporary CD in Blues Blast magazine, and Top 20 Blues Rock Roots Album. She was inducted into Canada's South Blues Society Hall of Fame.
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Ellington, Mills) – 7:14 #"Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)" (D. Ellington, Lee Gaines) – 4:27 ;Disc Eight: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra #"The Old Circus Train Turn-Around Blues" – 1:09 #"The Old Circus Train Turn-Around Blues" – 1:31 #"The Old Circus Train Turn-Around Blues" – 1:50 #"The Old Circus Train Turn-Around Blues" – 1:11 #"The Old Circus Train Turn-Around Blues" – 2:40 #"The Old Circus Train Turn-Around Blues" – 3:38 #"The Old Circus Train Turn-Around Blues" – 2:00 #"Blue Fuse No. 2" (D. Ellington) – 1:39 #"Blue Fuse No. 2" – 0:44 #"Blue Fuse No. 1" (D. Ellington) – 0:37 #"Blue Fuse No. 1" – 0:51 #"Blue Fuse No. 1" – 2:57 #"The Shepherd" (D.
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Coleman was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and raised in a music-loving military family that lived in San Diego, San Francisco, Bremerton, Washington, and the Chicago area. With her father playing piano, two brothers on guitar, and a sister who plays guitar and keyboards, Deborah felt natural with an instrument in her hands, picking up guitar at age 8. She has played at the top music venues such as North Atlantic Blues Festival (2007), Waterfront Blues Festival (2002), the Monterey Jazz Festival (2001), Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival (2000), Sarasota Blues Festival (1999), the San Francisco Blues Festival (1999) and the Fountain Blues Festival (1998). Coleman's Blind Pig debut, I Can't Lose (1997), was an album of ballads and blues stories, and guitar playing and singing.
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Rayford's latest album, Somebody Save Me, was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category. In May 2020, Rayford was presented with two Blues Music Awards for 'B.B King Entertainer of the Year' and 'Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year'.
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Swamp blues is a type of Louisiana blues that developed around Baton Rouge in the 1950s and 1960s. It incorporates influences from other genres, particularly zydeco and Cajun. Its most successful proponents included Slim Harpo and Lightnin' Slim, who enjoyed national rhythm and blues hits.
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Statement from Blues Owner Tom Stillman, NHL.com (Jan 6, 2013) The Blues and the NHL released the new playing schedules for 2013, covering 48 games instead of the usual 82. The Blues open the season at home on January 19 against the Detroit Red Wings.
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Throughout the team's history, the Varsity Blues have captured one National Championship in 1988. The 1988 National Championship team has since been inducted into the Varsity Blues Hall of Fame. The Blues won 49 provincial OUA Championships with the most recent one in 2010.
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Nothin' but the Blues is a 1984 (see 1984 in music) album by the American jazz and blues singer Joe Williams with Red Holloway & His Blues All-Stars. For his work on the album, Williams was awarded the 1985 Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance.
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The Dongguan Panther Blues established the first Chinese team of locals in China in 2014. Carlton Blues player Wally Koochew (See Below) being a pioneer as the first Chinese player in VFL/AFL history the Dongguan Blues team are also the pioneers in China.
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That same year, the University Press of Mississippi published Myers's autobiography, Sam Myers: The Blues is My Story. The writer Jeff Horton, whose work has appeared in Blues Revue and Southwest Blues, chronicled Myers's history and delved into his memories of life on the road.
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Varsity Blues is a 2002 EP by American rapper Murs. It is built around the theme of blues. It has the intention of helping teenagers through hard times, mainly African American high school students. A sequel titled Varsity Blues 2 was released in 2011.
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"I Got the Blues" is a song from the Rolling Stones' 1971 album Sticky Fingers. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "I Got the Blues" is a slow-paced, bluesy song. It features languid guitars with heavy influence of both blues and soul feel.
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The Alton Blues was a minor league baseball team based in Alton, Illinois. The Alton Blues played the 1917 season as members of the Class B Illinois-Indiana- Iowa League. The Alton Blues were the only minor league team hosted in Alton to date.
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The blues was originally published as an instrumental. In 1918, Lloyd Garrett added lyricsJasen, A Century of American Popular Music, p. 45: "Dallas Blues"; Wand Publishing Co. --Oklahoma City, 1912; Probably the first published blues number. Words were added (by Lloyd Garrett in 1918).
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Durango Blues Train is an evening of live blues music on board the historic Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge, coal-fired, steam-powered train. For two weekends on either end of the summer enjoy amazing blues music while riding through some of Colorado's most scenic canyons.
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Payne received the George Foster Peabody Award in 1992, for outstanding achievement in the field of radio and broadcast journalism. and twice received the Blues Foundation's Keeping the Blues Alive award. He was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame on May 5, 2010.
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Over the years, the club has been decorated with Guy's collection of blues memorabilia. In 2013 Legends became one of the only blues clubs to offer livestreaming concerts. In 2015, the Rolling Stones visited the club."Rolling Stones Visit Buddy Guy's Club, Talk Blues".
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The Blues now faced the Canadiens for the Stanley Cup. Blues coach Bowman, a long-time member of the Canadiens organization was unable to spur the Blues to an upset. The Canadiens, led by Jean Beliveau and Henri Richard swept the series in four games.
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Can't Shake This Feeling is an album by Lurrie Bell. It earned Bell a Grammy Award nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album. At the 38th Blues Music Award ceremony in May 2017, Can't Shake This Feeling won the 'Traditional Blues Album of the Year' category.
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The Blues Brothers' creed was that they were "on a mission from God" as evangelists for blues and soul music. The Black Crowes formed in 1984, initially dedicated to reviving 1970s style blues-rock. They started writing their own material in the same vein.
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The recording won both the 'Album of the Year' and 'Contemporary Album of the Year' titles at the 40th Blues Music Awards in 2019. In May 2020, Copeland was presented with another Blues Music Award in the 'Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year' category.
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Jazz educator Jamey Aebersold describes the sound and feel of the blues scale as "funky," "down- home," "earthy," or "bluesy."Aebersold, J. (1967). How to Play Jazz and Improvise: Volume One. . The blues scale is also used in other genres to reference the blues idiom.
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The blues scholar Paul Oliver has cited Gaither among a group of important, but understudied, 20th century musicians."Blues Research: Problems and Possibilities" Paul Oliver, Journal of Musicology Vol. 2 No. 4 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 377-390 His blues lyrics have been appreciated as poetry.
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However, author Eileen Southern has pointed out several contrasting statements by old-time musicians. She cites Eubie Blake as saying "Blues in Baltimore? Why, Baltimore is the blues!" and Bunk Johnson as claiming that the blues was around in his childhood, in the 1880s.
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Samuel Hargress II (April 9, 1936 – April 10, 2020) was the owner of the historic Paris Blues in (Harlem) (New York City), (New York). Paris Blues is a Jazz and Blues lounge/bar. It opened in 1969. He was also a Civil Rights activists.
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While in Rush's band, Allen was exposed to what blues has to offer worldwide. The experience gave him a chance to travel and perform internationally for hundreds of thousands of blues fans, and to learn what it took to succeed in the blues music industry.
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Electricblues.com has expressed that the album Electric Redemption, "...is heavy-duty, highly animated, guitar-driven blues and heavy rock that will send most traditional blues fans running for cover. Only those interested in seeing just how far the blues can be stretched need dwell here".
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Retrieved on 2010-07-18.Vermilyea, John. "Blues Underground Network (Featuring Doug Cox & Salil Bhatt)" , Blues Underground Network web site. Retrieved on 2010-07-18.
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His style of playing had more in common with the Piedmont blues of the East Coast than with the Delta blues of his native Mississippi.
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R. F. Schwartz, How Britain Got the Blues: the Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), p. 242.
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Ghost Town Blues Band was placed second in the International Blues Challenge in 2014. They were the winner of the International Songwriting Competition in 2015.
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David Rotundo (fl. 1991-2017) is a Canadian blues harp player and band leader."Hugh’s Room Playing the Blues Again with David Rotundo" Cashbox Magazine.
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Dicaire, David (1999). Blues Singers, McFarland & Company. page 7. . Patton's compositions "Banty Rooster Blues" and "Down the Dirt Road" were also recorded at this session.
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His best-known recordings include "Anna Lou Blues", "Black Angel Blues", "Crying Won't Help You", "It Hurts Me Too", and "Love Her with a Feeling".
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Later, Zen Guerrilla fused blues, rock and gospel to create a sound which could be likened to bands such as the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings is a non-fiction book that is an encyclopedic referencing of all known blues music albums released on CD.
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Lucille Spann (June 23, 1938 – August 2, 1994), was an American blues singer who participated in the Chicago Blues community in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Cardiff Blues announced on 3 November 2010 that he would be leaving the club, due to a long- standing groin injury. Cardiff Blues news item.
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Marshall, Matt. "35th Blues Music Award Nominees Announced" American Blues Scene. 10 December 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2016 He signed with Alligator Records in 2015.
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After graduating, Posa joined the Espoon Blues. She helped lead the Blues to the back-to-back Finnish Ice Hockey Championships in 2013 and 2014.
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Larry "T" Thurston is a soul, R&B;, and blues singer, who sang as the lead vocalist for Matt Murphy's band and the Blues Brothers.
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Curley Wilson Bridges (February 7, 1934 – November 27, 2014) was an American electric blues, rock-and-roll, and rhythm-and-blues singer, pianist and songwriter.
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In the 1940s and 1950s, this historic strip drew crowds to the flourishing club scene to hear Delta blues, big band jump blues and jazz.
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He gained blues in both cricket and rugby union while at Oxford, where he appeared for Oxford University RFC, before later playing for Bedford Blues.
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The Blues for Salvador Tour was the twenty- second concert tour by Santana in 1988, supporting leader Carlos Santana's 1987 solo album Blues for Salvador.
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Their 2010 follow-up was Gonna Boogie Anyway. Rynn has been nominated for a Blues Music Award as 'Best Blues Bassist' for seven consecutive years.
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In January 2014, Bledsoe signed for USL W-League side, Los Angeles Blues (previously known as "Pali Blues") in preparation for exploring opportunities in Europe.
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V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra, S. T. Erlewine, eds, All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues (Backbeat, 3rd edn., 2003), , pp. 700–2. Early blues rock bands often emulated jazz, playing long, involved improvisations, which would later be a major element of progressive rock. From about 1967 bands like Cream had begun to move away from purely blues-based music into psychedelia.
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Morris Holt (August 7, 1937 - February 21, 2013), known as Magic Slim, was an American blues singer and guitarist. Born at Torrance, near Grenada, Mississippi, the son of sharecroppers, he followed blues greats such as Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf to Chicago, developing his own place in the Chicago blues scene. In 2017, Magic Slim was posthumously inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame.
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"Mean Old Bedbug Blues" was recorded in October that year. A single was released of "Peepin' Jim Blues" b/w "When You Get Tired of Your New Sweetie" by Banner Records, with both sides credited to 'Miss Frankie'. "Peepin' Jim Blues" and "Hard Hearted Papa" both appeared on another compilation album Female Blues Singers, Vol. 10, H/I/J (1923-1929) issued by Document Records (March 1997).
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Ishmon Bracey (January 9, 1899 or 1901 - February 12, 1970), sometimes credited as Ishman Bracey, was an American Delta blues singer-guitarist. Alongside his contemporary Tommy Johnson, Bracey was a highly influential bluesman in Jackson, Mississippi, and was one of the area's earliest figures to record blues material. Bracey's recordings included "Trouble Hearted Blues" and "Left Alone Blues", both of which appear on several compilation albums.
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In 1994, Radio America produced The Blues Story: Triumph of An American Musical Art Form, a six-part radio documentary that won a Keeping the Blues Alive Award from the Blues Foundation.The Blues Foundation The network has won a host of other awards, including the New York International Radio Festival's Gold and Silver medals, the ABA Silver Gavel, Gabriel, Ohio State, and Freedom Foundation.
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Sykes had a long career, spanning the pre-war and postwar eras. His pounding piano boogies and risqué lyrics characterize his contributions to the blues. He was responsible for influential blues songs such as "44 Blues", "Driving Wheel", and "Night Time Is the Right Time". He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Gennett Records Walk of Fame in 2011.
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National Blues Museum The National Blues Museum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit museum in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, dedicated to exploring the musical history and impact of the blues. It exists as an entertainment and educational resource focusing on blues music. The Museum offers a rotating collection of exhibits, live performances in the Lumiere Place Legends room, and is available for private events.
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In December 2013, Polk signed with the Frankston Blues for the 2014 SEABL season. In 26 games for the Blues in 2014, he averaged 20.0 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game. On March 5, 2015, Polk re-signed with the Blues for the 2015 season. In 22 games for the Blues in 2015, he averaged 15.3 points, 10.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game.
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Her song "Key to the Mountain Blues" was recorded in 1948 by Jesse Thomas as "Mountain Key Blues." By the 1950s, Johnson had long since given up her career in music. She focused on religion and worked in a hospital. In 1960, she was interviewed by the blues historian Paul Oliver, and extracts from this interview were included in his book Conversation with the Blues.
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He is a member of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. He was selected three times as Blues Performer of the Year in New Orleans. He was honored with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker in McComb, Mississippi. His 2012 album, Chasing tha Blues, won Best Blues Album at the 12th Annual Independent Music Awards. King's most recent album, Messin’ Around tha Living Room, was released in 2015.
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The label was founded in 1974 and focused primarily on piano blues, boogie-woogie and Delta blues, issuing 46 LPs and 13 CDs.Wynn, Neil, Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe, University Press of Mississippi, 2007, p. 230 After the death of Martin van Olderen in 2002 the label continued to issue records into 2004. Oldie Blues was marketed and distributed by Munich Records.
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Samuel Joseph Myers (February 19, 1936 – July 17, 2006) was an American blues musician and songwriter. He was an accompanist on dozens of recordings by blues artists over five decades. He began his career as a drummer for Elmore James but was most famous as a blues vocalist and blues harp player. For nearly two decades he was the featured vocalist for Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets.
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Francis Hillman "Scrapper" Blackwell (February 21, 1903 – October 7, 1962The Virgin Encyclopedia of The Blues) was an American blues guitarist and singer, best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was an acoustic single-note picker in the Chicago blues and Piedmont blues styles. Some critics have noted that he veered towards jazz.
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People often ask us "why don't you play Blues". The > Blues to us is a Universal language. Musicians from different speaking > countries on first meeting will know exactly where they are on the basic > blues structure. Brian, Lee and I have all been through this grounding and > have said what we wanted to say in the blues for the time being through > other groups.
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230x230px Picking cotton was often a subject which was mentioned in songs by African-American blues and jazz musicians in the 1920s–1940s, reflecting their grievances. In 1940, jazz pianist Duke Ellington composed "Cotton Tail" and blues musician Lead Belly wrote "Cotton Fields". In 1951, Big Mama Thornton wrote "Cotton Picking Blues." A number of blues and jazz musicians had worked on cotton plantations.
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'Round Midnight at jazzstandards.com - retrieved on February 20, 2009 An early 1940s style known as "jumping the blues" or jump blues used small combos, uptempo music, and blues chord progressions. Jump blues drew on boogie-woogie from the 1930s. Kansas City Jazz in the 1930s as exemplified by tenor saxophonist Lester Young marked the transition from big bands to the bebop influence of the 1940s.
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Each team has to improvise a blues song on a topic given by the other team, such as the "Trichologist's blues" or the "Kerry Packer blues". The songs invariably started with "I woke up this morning". The only exception was when one team had to sing the "I couldn't get to sleep last night blues". A variation was to improvise a madrigal or a calypso.
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John Németh (born March 10, 1975) is an American electric blues and soul harmonicist, singer, and songwriter. He has received two Blues Music Awards for Soul Blues Male Artist in 2014 and Soul Blues Album in 2015. He has recorded nine solo albums since 2002, having also backed Junior Watson, Anson Funderburgh and Elvin Bishop. He has opened for Robert Cray, Keb' Mo', and Earl Thomas.
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Robert Brown (July 31, 1927 – May 1973), who performed as Smoky Babe, was an American acoustic blues guitarist and singer, whose recording career was restricted to a couple of recording sessions in the early 1960s. He has been variously described as a Louisiana blues, Piedmont blues and blues revival musician. His most noteworthy recordings are "Going Downtown Boogie" and "Ain't Got No Rabbit Dog".
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Townsend said wryly that he has been "rediscovered three or four times". Articulate and self-aware, with an excellent memory, Townsend gave many invaluable interviews to blues enthusiasts and scholars. Paul Oliver recorded him in 1960 and quoted him extensively in his 1967 work Conversations with the Blues. That book was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1991, in the Classics of Blues Literature category.
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In the 1950s, soul music by Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and James Brown used gospel and blues music elements. In the 1960s and 1970s, gospel and blues were merged in soul blues music. Funk music of the 1970s was influenced by soul; funk can be seen as an antecedent of hip-hop and contemporary R&B.; R&B; music can be traced back to spirituals and blues.
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In 1983 he won a W. C. Handy Award for Best Traditional Blues Male Artist. He lived in Hanover, Germany, from 1981. He appeared in the films Rockpalast (1976), Comeback (1982), Ballhaus Barmbek (1988), Red and Blues (2005) and Family Meeting (2008). In 1994, Louisiana Red fused the blues with the urban Greek music of the bouzouki player Stelios Vamvakaris, on the album Blues Meets Rembetika.
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"Reconsider Baby" is a blues song written and recorded by Lowell Fulson in 1954. Performed in the West Coast blues style, it was Fulson's first record chart hit for Checker Records, a subsidiary of Chess Records. With memorable lyrics and a driving rhythm, "Reconsider Baby" became a blues standard and has been recognized by the Blues Foundation and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame.
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It remained at the top position for 14 weeks, longer than any other single. In 2005, it was inducted into the Blues Foundation Blues Hall of Fame as a "Classic of Blues RecordingSingle or Album Track". Brown re-recorded the song for his 1972 Blues 'n' Brown album. James Booker covered the song on his albums King of the New Orleans Keyboardand Live from Belle Vue.
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"Blues at the Bow Live", located in the historic Bow Theatre, is an internationally renowned live blues venue featuring Grammy and Juno Award winning blues artists. This nonprofit, solely volunteer operated Canadian blues society was formed in 1993. The society's first show to be held in the Bow Theatre took place on December 17, 1994. They have been hosting sold out performances since inception.
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St. Ann's has also featured blues artists. In 1989, The Mississippi Delta Blues Festival featured some rare New York performances. The Piano Blues Who's Who (1990) explored the rhythmic distinctions between New Orleans and Chicago blues traditions. A celebration of the Music of the Mississippi Hill Country, featuring Lucinda Williams and Othar Turner, among others, was the debut performance at St. Ann's Warehouse in 2001.
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Johnson's first solo album, 'Why I Sing the Blues, was a collaboration with a number of North American poets. In 2006 he released his first live album, titled simply Live, or The Bill Johnson Blues Band Live. In 2006 the Toronto Blues Society nominated Johnson for a Maple Blues Award for Best Guitarist. He self-released the album Worksongs in 2007, singing and playing solo acoustic guitar.
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AllMusic reviewer Thom Owens stated "Walking the Blues is arguably the finest record Otis Spann ever cut, boasting 11 cuts of astounding blues piano. On several numbers, Spann is supported by guitarist Robert Jr. Lockwood and their interaction is sympathetic, warm, and utterly inviting. ... Most importantly, however, is the fact that Walking the Blues simply sounds great -- it's some of the finest blues piano you'll ever hear.".
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Sutter was drafted by the St. Louis Blues during the 2nd round (20th overall) in the 1976 NHL Entry Draft. He played for the Blues until 1988, when a nagging back injury forced him into retirement. In 12 years with the Blues, he played in three NHL All-Star Games – 1982, 1983, and 1985. For the last nine years of his career, he was the Blues' captain.
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Classic Rock magazine voted Heads I Win Tails You Lose the number 3 blues album of 2010. Mojo voted it the number 4 blues album of 2010. At the 2010 British Blues Awards, Brown was named 'Best Male Vocalist' and 'Best Young Artist'. In the 2011 British Blues Awards, Brown won the 'Best Band' category and Heads I Win Tails You Lose was named 'Best Album'.
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Fellow blues artist B.B. King credited Jefferson as one of his biggest musical influences, next to Lonnie Johnson, Louis Jordan and T-Bone Walker. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame selected Jefferson's 1927 recording of "Matchbox Blues" as one of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll. Jefferson was among the inaugural class of blues musicians inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980.
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Spady performing at Terra Blues in Greenwich Village, New York City Clarence Spady (born July 1, 1961) is an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist from Paterson, New Jersey. His debut album Nature of the Beast was released in 1996 through Evidence Music, mixing elements of delta blues, rock, R&B;, and funk. Spady was at the time listed as one of the top 40 blues artists under 40 by Living Blues. A second album entitled Just Between Us made its appearance in 2008 through Severn Records.
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"Dust My Broom" is a blues standard and is especially popular among slide guitarists. Besides early versions by bluesmen, including Arthur Crudup (1949) and Robert Jr. Lockwood (1951), the song carried over to the 1960s folk and blues revival and the British rhythm and blues scene. In 1963, American revivalists Koerner, Ray & Glover recorded the song, possibly making them the first white musicians to do so. Following the 1964 UK release of "Dust My Blues", James' slide guitar sound was adopted by many British blues-oriented guitarists.
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"Baby, Please Don't Go" is a traditional blues song that was popularized by Delta blues musician Big Joe Williams in 1935. Many cover versions followed, leading to its description as "one of the most played, arranged, and rearranged pieces in blues history" by French music historian Gérard Herzhaft. After World War II, Chicago blues and rhythm and blues artists adapted the song to newer music styles. In 1952, a doo-wop version by the Orioles reached the top ten on the R&B; chart.
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As of February 2002 Jimi Hocking's Blues Machine included Graham Maddicks on drums and Karl Willebrant on bass guitar. In October 2004 he won the local Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society's Blues Performer of the Year which resulted in an appearance at the 2005 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee; where he won the Solo/Duo category. In 2010 he rejoined The Screaming Jets replacing his successor, Ismet "Izzy" Osmanovic, who had left in the previous October. He also continued his solo performances and with his Blues Machine.
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"She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride)" is a blues standard written by Taj Mahal and James Rachell. The song was first recorded for Taj Mahal's 1968 album The Natch'l Blues, and is one of Mahal's most famous tunes. It has since been covered many times, and is included on the soundtrack for the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers (the song plays over the opening credits, as Jake Blues leaves prison). According to John Belushi's widow, it was Belushi's favorite blues song.
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"See See Rider", also known as "C.C. Rider", "See See Rider Blues" or "Easy Rider", is a popular American 12-bar bluesSome versions are in an "expanded", sixteen-bar blues form; see the review of Elijah Wald (2005), Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues, Amistad, , on Google group rec.music.country.old-time folk blues song that became a blues and jazz standard. Gertrude "Ma" Rainey was the first to record it on October 16, 1924, at Paramount Records in New York.
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Blues Incorporated established a regular "Rhythm and Blues Night" at the Ealing Jazz Club and were given a residency at the Marquee Club, from which in 1962 they took the name of the first British blues album, R&B; from the Marquee (Decca), but Korner and Davies had split over the issue of including horn sections in the Blues Incorporated sound before its release. Korner continued with various line-ups for Blues Incorporated, while Davies went on to form his R&B; All Stars.
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Country Blues liner notes. Charters initially took the Robert Johnson track, "Preachin' Blues," as a different take from the one issued on Vocalion 4630, but it is in fact the only version, issued on both the King of the Delta Blues Singers album two years later and its 1970 sequel.Country Blues liner notes. "Preachin' Blues" is one of the two recordings John Hammond played at his Spirituals to Swing concert at Carnegie Hall in 1938 to represent the work of the recently deceased Johnson.
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Blues, rooted in the work songs and spirituals of slavery and influenced greatly by West African musical traditions, was first played by black Americans around the time of the Emancipation Proclamation. Grammy- winning blues musician/historian Elijah Wald and others have argued that the blues were being rapped as early as the 1920s. Wald went so far as to call hip hop "the living blues". A notable recorded example of rapping in blues was the 1950 song "Gotta Let You Go" by Joe Hill Louis.
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Blues Unlimited (ISSN 0006-5153) was a British monthly music magazine dealing with all aspects of blues music. Co-founded in 1963 by Simon A. Napier (not to be confused with Simon Napier-Bell) and Mike Leadbitter, it was - along with its later American counterpart Living Blues - considered one of the premier magazines for blues music. It adopted the name of an earlier magazine published by Max Vreede in the Netherlands, which had ceased publication.Steve Cushing, Pioneers of the Blues Revival, University of Illinois Press, , 2014, p.
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Also in attendance was the widow of John Belushi who spoke of Salgado's part in the development of The Blues Brothers. On April 29, 2007, another benefit was held in Curtis' honor, bringing Steve Miller and Little Charlie and the boys back, and adding Jimmie Vaughan, and harp players Charlie Musselwhite and Kim Wilson. Salgado was nominated for four of the Blues Foundation's 2009 Blues Music Awards, including Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year and Soul Blues Album of the year for his album, Clean Getaway. In 2010, Salgado won the Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year award, which he won again in 2012.
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Oliver was a leading authority on the blues and gospel music, described in the New York Times as "a scrupulous researcher with a fluent writing style, [who] opened the eyes of readers in Britain and the United States to a musical form that had been overlooked and often belittled." He published his first article in Jazz Journal in 1952. His first book on the blues, a biography of Bessie Smith, was published in 1959, Alan White, "Interview: Paul Oliver, world authority on the Blues", Early Blues, 2009. Retrieved 15 August 2017 followed by Blues Fell this Morning: The Meaning of the Blues in 1960.
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While some bands focused on blues artists, particularly those of Chicago electric blues, others adopted a wider interest in rhythm and blues, including the work of Chess Records' blues artists like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, but also rock and roll pioneers Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, All Music Guide to Rock: the Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul (Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 3rd edn., 2002), , pp. 1315-6. Most successful were the Rolling Stones, who abandoned blues purism before their line-up solidified and they produced their first eponymously titled album in 1964, which largely consisted of rhythm and blues standards.
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B. King's first hit), "Reconsider Baby" (a blues standard), and "Tramp" (co-written with Jimmy McCracklin and recorded by several artists). His 1965 song "Black Nights" was his first hit in a decade, and "Tramp" did even better, restoring him to R&B; stardom. A show entitled California Blues: Swingtime Tribute opened in 1993 at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California, with Fulson, Johnny Otis, Charles Brown, Jay McShann, Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy McCracklin and Earl Brown. Fulson's last recording was a duet of "Every Day I Have the Blues" with Jimmy Rogers on the latter's 1999 Atlantic Records release, The Jimmy Rogers All-Stars: Blues, Blues, Blues.
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Canton is officially on the Mississippi Blues Trail. Elmore James, a blues singer and a familiar figure in Canton, learned electronics by working in a radio repair shop on Hickory Street. Canton is rich in blues history centered on the juke joints of Hickory Street, known to locals as "The Hollow", as well as other places in Canton. A Mississippi Blues Trail historic marker was placed in Canton on Hickory Street to honor the contribution of James to the development of the blues in Mississippi. Other noted blues performers associated with Canton include Grady Champion, Little Brother Montgomery, William “Do-Boy” Diamond, Boyd Rivers and Johnny Temple.
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"Baby, Please Don't Go" is recognized as a blues standard, including by French blues historian , who described it as "one of the most played, arranged, and rearranged pieces in blues history". The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included Big Joe Williams' rendition in list of "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll". In 1992, Williams' song was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in the "Classics of Blues Recordings" category. The Foundation noted that, in addition to various blues recordings, "the song was revived in revved-up fashion by rock bands in the '60s such as Them, the Amboy Dukes, and Ten Years After".
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English blues rock group the Rolling Stones and the music magazine Rolling Stone took their names from the song. In 2000, the song was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award; in 2004, it was included at number 459 by Rolling Stone in its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". In 2019, the Blues Foundation inducted "Rollin' Stone" into the Blues Hall of Fame as a "Classic of Blues Recording". In 1967, "Rollin' Stone" (and "Still a Fool") was used as part of Jimi Hendrix's "Catfish Blues", a homage to Muddy Waters, and included on the albums BBC Sessions and Blues.
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"Worried Life Blues" is based on "Someday Baby Blues" recorded by Sleepy John Estes in 1935. Estes' song is performed as a vocal and guitar country blues, whereas Maceo's is a prototypical Chicago blues. To illustrate the lyrical differences of the originals, the first few verses are as follows: :"Worried Life Blues" Big Maceo (1941): :"Someday Baby Blues" Sleepy John Estes (1935):The refrain is paraphrased in Estes' epitaph "Ain't goin' to worry Poor John's mind anymore". Over the years the differences have become blurred by various cover versions of the songs, which use elements from both songs, often combined with new lyrics and variations in the music.
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1998 brought a sequel, Blues Brothers 2000 that, while not holding as great a critical and financial success, featured a much larger number of blues artists, such as B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Erykah Badu, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Charlie Musselwhite, Blues Traveler, Jimmie Vaughan, and Jeff Baxter. In 2003, Martin Scorsese made significant efforts to promote the blues to a larger audience. He asked several famous directors such as Clint Eastwood and Wim Wenders to participate in a series of documentary films for PBS called The Blues. He also participated in the rendition of compilations of major blues artists in a series of high-quality CDs.
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Early in the 20th century, the District of Columbia was home to many bluesmen, such as Jelly Roll Morton and later rock and roll and rhythm and blues musicians such as Bo Diddley and Roy Buchanan. In the 1960s, a number of white youths formed local blues bands, including the Northside Blues Band and the Nighthawks. Starting in the early 1960s, Takoma Park native John Fahey became a nationally noted blues and folk guitarist who established the Takoma Records label, which attracted a number of other blues, folk, acoustic and fingerstyle guitarists to the District of Columbia area. Another local blues rock performer is Tom Principato.
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The Little Redd Schoolhouse debuted on March 3, 2011, on WMQM, a Memphis-based radio station. Redd Velvet was nominated as "Best New Female Artist of The Year" for 2011 by the Jus' Blues Foundation. In 2016 award-winning journalist Toure' wrote an article in Smithsonian Magazine praising Redd velvet for her powerful performances and work to preserve the history and heritage of the blues as an African-American art form. At the urging of Toure' and blues vocalist Teeny Tucker, Redd Velvet created "I Am The Blues", the only live, interactive blues exhibit showcasing the evolution of blues music from the shores of Africa to the twenty-first century.
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Songs like Jail House Blues, Work House Blues, Prison Blues, Sing Sing Prison Blues and Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair dealt critically with social issues of the day such as chain gangs, the convict lease system and capital punishment. Poor Man's Blues and Washwoman's Blues are considered by scholars to be an early form of African American protest music. What becomes evident after listening to her music and studying her lyrics is that Smith emphasized and channeled a subculture within the African-American working class. Additionally, she incorporated commentary on social issues like poverty, intra-racial conflict, and female sexuality into her lyrics.
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The performance was preceded with a faux news report stating the Blues Brothers had escaped custody and were on their way to the Louisiana Superdome. Aykroyd has continued to be an active proponent of blues music and parlayed this avocation into foundation and partial ownership of the House of Blues franchise, a national chain of nightclubs. In Italy the franchise is now owned by Zucchero, who used the brand during the tour promoting his album Black Cat of 2016. Jim Belushi toured with the band for a short time as "Zee Blues", and recorded the album Blues Brothers & Friends: Live from House of Blues with Dan Aykroyd.
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Aykroyd modeled Elwood Blues on Donnie Walsh, while John Belushi's Jake Blues character was modeled on Hock Walsh. In their first album as the Blues Brothers, Briefcase Full of Blues (1978), Aykroyd and Belushi featured three well-known Downchild songs closely associated with Hock Walsh's vocal style: "I've Got Everything I Need (Almost)", written by Donnie Walsh, "Shotgun Blues", co-written by Donnie and Hock Walsh, and "Flip, Flop and Fly", co-written and originally popularized by Big Joe Turner.Jim Slotek, Bye to blues brother: Downchild's Donnie Walsh talks about late sibling , Jam! Music, February 4, 2000; www.jam.canoe.ca. All three songs were contained in Downchild's second album, Straight Up (1973).
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In 2012, he released the electric blues album My Own Blues and collaborated with singer David Orbach on the album King of Blues. Lloyd released a second acoustic album, Lost on the Highway, through Blues Leaf Records in August 2013. In October, as part of the Jewish Unity Music Project, he released a music video called "Ha'am Sheli" ("My People"), featuring vocals from Israeli singers Gad Elbaz, Shlomo Katz, Aharon Razel, and Naftali Kalfa. The following summer, he embarked on a North American tour, including a Canadian tour with members of the Downchild Blues Band and a US tour with members of the Chicago Blues Kings.
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The history of blues in New Zealand dates from the 1960s. The earliest blues influences on New Zealand musicians were indirect – not from the United States but from white British blues musicians: first the R&B; styles of Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, The Animals and The Rolling Stones, and later the blues- tinged rock of groups such as Led Zeppelin. The first American blues artist to make a big impact in New Zealand was Stevie Ray Vaughan in the early 1980s. Other blues-related genres such as soul and gospel almost completely by-passed New Zealand audiences, except for a handful of hits from cross-over artists such as Ray Charles.
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Kim Wilson's Smokin' Joint (2001) was co-produced by Corritore, and European tours and festival appearances followed. The Mayor of Phoenix proclaimed September 29, 2007 as “Bob Corritore Day”, and Corritore received the 'Keeping The Blues Alive Award' from the Blues Foundation, whilst in the same year his joint album with Dave Riley, entitled Travelin' The Dirt Road, was nominated for a Blues Music Award. Corritore's next release in 2010, Harmonica Blues, was a compilation album, made from 15 tracks he had recorded with a variety of blues musicians between 1989 and 2009. In 2011, it was granted a Blues Music Award in the Historical Album of the Year category.
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V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra, S. T. Erlewine, eds, All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues (Backbeat, 3rd edn., 2003), p. 700.
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Blues 'N' Jazz is the twenty-eighth studio blues album by B.B. King released in 1983. It was recorded on his 57th birthday, September 16, 1983.
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Blues with a Feeling is the 11th studio album by Steve Hackett, released in 1994. As the title denotes, Hackett explored his feelings about blues music.
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Blues of Desperation is the twelfth studio album by American blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa. It was released on March 25, 2016 through J&R; Records.
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Jesse Colin Young was influenced musically by country blues musicians Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin' Hopkins, blues musician T-Bone Walker and folk singer Pete Seeger.
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Soul blues is a style of blues music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s that combines elements of soul music and urban contemporary music.
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V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra, S. T. Erlewine, eds, All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues (Backbeat, 3rd edn., 2003), p. 700.
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Dean has been inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame, the Alabama Blues Hall of Fame (2017) and the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame (2018).
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Freedom Tower - No Wave Dance Party 2015 is the tenth and final studio album by American punk blues band Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, released in 2015.
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He played on Orleans Records recordings by artists like Cajun blues singer Coco Robicheaux, blues singers Rocky Charles, Little Freddie King, Mighty Sam McClain and others.
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Aurora "Rory" Block (born November 6, 1949, in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American blues guitarist and singer, a notable exponent of the country blues style.
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The early Korean working title was Gangnam Blues (), which was changed to Gangnam 1970 in October 2014. Gangnam Blues was retained as the international English title.
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WATD aired blues for 26 years nightly on "Wide World of Blues" with Peter Black. The program aired for the final time on July 20, 2018.
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Keep It Simple is the seventh studio album by blues artist Keb' Mo'. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album in 2005.
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His final recording, Blues in Other Colors (2012), received acclaim for the fusion of traditional blues using non-Western instruments, along with elements of world music.
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Ballads, Blues and Boasters is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor in 1964.[ Allmusic entry for Ballads, Blues and Boasters] Retrieved October 2009.
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Iron City Blues is an award-winning independent documentary which chronicles the creation of a blues song about the town of Iron City, Tennessee.ironcityblues.com, Official Website.
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Monterey Bay Blues Festival Home Page - Official Web Site! It filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and was resurrected in 2017 as the Monterey International Blues Festival.
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Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac onstage in 1970 The wider rhythm and blues boom overlapped, both chronologically and in terms of personnel, with the later and more narrowly focused British blues boom. The blues boom began to come to prominence in the mid-1960s as the rhythm and blues movement began to peter out leaving a nucleus of instrumentalists with a wide knowledge of blues forms and techniques.N. Logan and B. Woffinden, The NME Book of Rock 2 (London: W. H. Allen, 1977), , pp. 61–2. Central to the blues boom were John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, who began to gain national and international attention after the release of Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (Beano) album (1966), considered one of the seminal British blues recordings.T. Rawlings, A. Neill, C. Charlesworth and C. White, Then, Now and Rare British Beat 1960–1969 (London: Omnibus Press, 2002), , p. 130.
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Lennon said that, while "trying to reach God and feeling suicidal" in India, he wanted to write a blues song, but was unsure if he could imitate the likes of Sleepy John Estes and other original blues artists he had listened to in school. In "Yer Blues," he alludes to this insecurity with a reference to the character Mr. Jones from Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man," and with the third verse, which draws on Robert Johnson's "Hellhound on My Trail." Instead, Lennon wrote and composed "Yer Blues" as a parody of British imitators of the blues, featuring tongue-in-cheek guitar solos and rock and roll-inspired swing blues passages. The half-satirical, half-earnest song mockingly acknowledges the British blues boom of 1968 and the debate among the music press at the time of whether white men could sing the blues.
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The melody of "Sweet Home Chicago" is found in several blues songs, including "Honey Dripper Blues", "Red Cross Blues", and the immediate model for the song, "Kokomo Blues". The lyrics for "Honey Dripper Blues No. 2" by Edith North Johnson follow a typical AAB structure: Lucille Bogan's (as Bessie Jackson) "Red Cross Man" uses an AB plus refrain structure: Blues historian Elijah Wald suggests that Scrapper Blackwell was the first to introduce a reference to a city in his "Kokomo Blues", using a AAB verse: "Kokola Blues", recorded by Madlyn Davis a year earlier in 1927, also references Kokomo, Indiana, in the refrain: In 1932, Jabo Williams recorded "Ko Ko Mo Blues," with the same refrain, but included a counting line: "One and two is three, four and five and six".Paramount (PM 13127) James Arnold laid claim to the song in 1933, styling himself Kokomo Arnold and naming his version "Old Original Kokomo Blues".Decca (De 7026) He later explained the song's references "eleven light city" referred to a Chicago drugstore where a girlfriend worked and "Koko" was their brand name of coffee.
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Ralph Willis (c. 1910 - June 11, 1957) was an American Piedmont blues and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. Some of his Savoy records were released under the pseudonyms Washboard Pete, Alabama Slim, and Sleepy Joe. His famous song is "Christmas Blues" (credited to Washboard Pete).
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Noble "Thin Man" Watts (February 17, 1926 - August 24, 2004) was an American blues, jump blues and rhythm and blues saxophonist. He primarily played tenor saxophone. The AllMusic journalist, Bill Dahl, considered Watts "one of the most incendiary [...] fire-breathing tenor sax honkers" of the 1950s.
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Introduced in October 2007, Louie the Bear is the mascot for the St. Louis Blues. Louie is the mascot of the St. Louis Blues. He was introduced on October 10, 2007. On November 3, 2007, the fans voted on his name on the Blues' web site.
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Jimmy Burns (born February 27, 1943) is an American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. Although he was born in the Mississippi Delta, Burns has spent nearly all his life in Chicago. His elder brother, Eddie "Guitar" Burns, was a Detroit blues musician.
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On November 4, 2014, the Blues Foundation announced Wagner as the winner of the 'Keeping the Blues Alive Award' in the category of public radio. The KBAs are awarded by a select panel of blues professionals to those working actively to promote and document the music.
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Bessie Tucker (c. 1906 - January 6, 1933) was an American classic female blues, country blues, and Texas blues singer and songwriter. Little is known of her life outside the music industry. She is known to have recorded just twenty-four tracks, seven of which were alternate takes.
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Ben Thomas (born 25 November 1998) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Cardiff Blues as a centre. He was a Wales under-20 international. Thomas made his debut for the Cardiff Blues regional team in 2019 having previously played for the Blues academy.
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Alun Lawrence (born 12 August 1998) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Cardiff Blues as a back rower. He was a Wales under-20 international. Lawrence made his debut for the Cardiff Blues regional team in 2019 having previously played for the Blues academy.
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Plays More Blues, Ballads & Favorites is a 2011 release by Texas blues guitarist/singer Jimmie Vaughan. It was released by Shout! Factory and Proper Records. It was his second consecutive album featuring only cover songs, the follow up to his 2010 album Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites.
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At the top of the gatefold, written in braille, is the phrase "blues is truth". The bottom of the sleeve features "blues is truth" written in numeric code. Similarly, the album credits also contains a red letter code that spells out "blues is truth" in anagram format.
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References to the Yellow Dog appear in early blues songs by W.C. Handy, Bessie Smith, Charlie Patton, Lucille Bogan and Big Bill Broonzy. In January 2016, Yellow Dog Records will be a recipient of the 2016 Keeping the Blues Alive Awards, presented by the Blues Foundation.
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He also performed Blues Foundation and House of Blues house band shows with guests such as Dr. John, Little Milton, Rufus Thomas, Otis Clay, and Carla Thomas. In addition to playing drums and producing music, Braunagel is also a songwriter. He is a Blues Music Award winner.
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Rhys Davies (born 8 February 1998) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Cardiff Blues as a fly-half. He is a Wales Sevens international. Davies has yet to debut for the Cardiff Blues regional team but has previously played for the Blues academy.
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Ioan Davies (born 28 November 1999) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Cardiff Blues as a fullback. He was a Wales under-20 international. Davies made his debut for the Cardiff Blues regional team in 2020 having previously played for the Blues academy.
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"Travelling Riverside Blues" is a blues song written by the bluesman Robert Johnson. He recorded it on June 20, 1937, in Dallas, Texas, during his last recording session. The song was unreleased until its inclusion on the 1961 Johnson compilation album King of the Delta Blues Singers.
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Deborah Coleman (October 3, 1956 – April 12, 2018) RIP Deborah Coleman, Making a Scene!, April 13, 2018 was an American blues musician. Coleman won the Orville Gibson Award for "Best Blues Guitarist, Female" in 2001, and was nominated for a W.C. Handy Blues Music Award nine times.
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Wald 2004, p. 183. Johnson's last recording, "Milkcow's Calf Blues" is his most direct tribute to Kokomo Arnold, who wrote "Milkcow Blues" and influenced Johnson's vocal style.Wald 2004, p. 184. "From Four Until Late" shows Johnson's mastery of a blues style not usually associated with the Delta.
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The seminal blues musicians of these periods had tremendous influence on rock musicians such as Chuck Berry in the 1950s, as well as on the British blues and blues rock scenes of the 1960s and 1970s, including Eric Clapton in Britain and Johnny Winter in Texas.
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The Recording Academy decided to create this new category for 2012 upon stating there were "challenges in distinguishing between... Contemporary and Traditional Blues". In 2017 the distinction between contemporary and traditional blues albums was reinstated. Both categories returned, while the Best Blues Album category was discontinued.
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Robert Nighthawk's "Black Angel Blues" was inducted in 2007 into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame "Classics of Blues Recordings" category and B.B. King's "Sweet Little Angel" is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll".
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Nothing but the Blues is a 1995 documentary film about Eric Clapton's musical journey and his love for Blues music. Martin Scorsese was one of the executive producers. It is not to be confused with the 2003 album release Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Eric Clapton.
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His father was Eddie Taylor, another Chicago blues musician. His step-brother Larry Taylor is a blues drummer and vocalist, and his sister Demetria is a blues vocalist in Chicago. Taylor's mother, Vera (Leevera), was the niece of the bluesmen Eddie "Guitar" Burns and Jimmy Burns.
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Josie Miles (c. 1900 – c. 1953–65) was an American vaudeville and blues singer. She was one of the classic female blues singers popular in the 1920s.
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Bognadanov et al., p. 341 In 2009, Lightfoot was posthumously honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail in Natchez, granted by the Mississippi Blues Foundation.
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Meat + Bone is the ninth studio album by American punk blues band Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, released in 2012. Their previous album Damage came out in 2004.
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Featuring ragtime, ragas, country blues and lap steel, the record earned high marks from PitchforkBaron, Zack. "Kensington Blues Review", Pitchfork, November 1, 2005. Retrieved May 14, 2009.
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Baquet's credits as a composer include "Why Cry Blues", written with Jimmy Durante. According to Papa Jack Laine, he co-wrote "Livery Stable Blues" with Yellow Nunez.
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Strait, John. "Experiencing Blues at the Crossroads: A Place-Based Method for Teaching the Geography of Blues Culture." Journal of Geography ( Houston) 111.5 (2012): 194-209. Print.
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Early Wright (February 10, 1915 – December 10, 1999) was the first black disc jockey in Mississippi.Cheseborough, Steve. Blues Traveling, The Holy Sites of Delta Blues. 3rd ed.
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In April 2009, the film inspired a Bangkok high fashion line designed by Roj Singhakul, titled "Sita Sings the Blues".Wenin, Samila. Into the Blues. Bangkok Post.
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"Blues From Space", a 1984 composition scored for big band, is a novelty tune about an alien who brings a philosophy of "Sing the Blues" to Earth.
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In 1996, with the advent of professional rugby union, Auckland became the host, and primary feeder, to the Blues, known from 1996–99 as the Auckland Blues.
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William Leake cricket profile rammycricket.co.uk Despite his father winning four sporting 'Blues' for Cambridge at cricket, Leake instead focused on rugby, winning three 'Blues' at rugby football.
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New York: Da Capo Press. pp. 4, 197. The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings described him as having brought "a hip, literate humour to the blues lyric".
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A.B. Skhy (originally New Blues) was an American electric blues band from Milwaukee formed in 1968. They recorded two albums before splitting up in the early 1970s.
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"Green Onions" was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2018, as one of the five new entrants in the "Classic of Blues Recording (Song)" category.
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Galen Gart, ed., First Pressings: The History of Rhythm & Blues, Vol. 4(1954) p. 41."Blues Legend Rufus Thomas Succumbs at 84", Jet (January 7, 2002) p.
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Johnson has taught at the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop as well as the International Guitar Seminar, Port Townsend Blues Workshop, Euro-Blues Workshop, and B.C. Bluegrass Workshop.
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Clarence Horatius "Big" Miller (December 18, 1922 – June 9, 1992) was an American jazz and blues singer and bassist, chiefly associated with the Kansas City blues style.
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Blues Is King is a live album by blues musician, B.B. King. It was recorded in Chicago in 1966 and released by the BluesWay label in 1967.
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The Traveler was chosen as a 'Favorite Blues Album' by AllMusic. Shepherd headlined the 2020 Mahindra Blues Festival, along with Buddy Guy, Larkin Poe and Keb Mo.
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I've Got a Rock in My Sock is a blues album by American blues guitarist and singer Rory Block, it was released in 1986 by Rounder Records.
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Bluesquare are a Czech four-member Blues rock band originating from Fulnek, Czech Republic. Their music draws inspiration from Blues, Southern rock, Psychedelic rock, and other influences.
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He enlisted at Camp Moore in Tangipahoa Parish with the "Minden Blues" for a period of twelve months. Nicholas Sandlin had also been part of "The Blues".
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The National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame is an independent organization honoring the historical preservation of rhythm and blues, gospel, jazz, and hip-hop music and culture.
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Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind is an album by American blues singer and guitarist Kelly Joe Phelps. It reached number 11 on the Billboard Top Blues Albums.
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Blues harmonica players and teachers at the first two events have included Billy Branch, Sugar Blue, Jason Ricci, Mitch Kashmar, Phil Wiggins, Annie Raines, Johnny Sansone, Charlie Sayles, Billy Gibson, Jimi Lee, and many others. In addition to Mister Satan's Apprentice, which received the "Keeping the Blues Alive" Award from the Blues Foundation in Memphis, Gussow is the author of Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition (2002); Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner’s Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York (2007); Busker's Holiday (2015), a novel about the summer busking season in Europe; and Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition (2017), which won the Living Blues readers' poll as "Best Blues Book of 2017." On October 19, 2020, the University of North Carolina Press will publish Gussow's new book, Whose Blues? Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music. Gussow’s essays and reviews have appeared in Southern Cultures, African American Review, Harper's, The Village Voice, American Literature, and many other publications.
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This inspired guitarist and blues harpist Cyril Davies and guitarist Alexis Korner to plug in and they began to play a high-powered electric blues that became the model for the subgenre, forming the band Blues Incorporated. Blues Incorporated was something of a clearing house for British blues musicians in the later 1950s and early 1960s, with many joining, or sitting in on sessions. These included future Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones; Cream founders Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker; and Graham Bond and Long John Baldry. Blues Incorporated were given a residency at the Marquee Club and it was from there that in 1962 they took the name of the first British Blues album, R&B; from the Marquee for Decca, but split before its release.
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The development of blues, up to Chicago blues, is arguably as follows: Country blues, to city blues, to urban blues. Chicago blues is based on the sound of the electric guitar and the harmonica, with the harmonica played through a PA system or guitar amplifier, both heavily amplified and often to the point of distortion, and a rhythm section of drums and bass (double bass at first, and later electric bass guitar) with piano depending on the song or performer. Urban blues started in Chicago and St. Louis, as music created by part-time musicians playing as street musicians, at rent parties, and other events in the black community. For example, bottleneck guitarist Kokomo Arnold was a steelworker and had a moonshine business that was far more profitable than his music.
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"How Long, How Long Blues" (also known as "How Long Blues" or "How Long How Long") is a blues song recorded by the American blues duo Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell in 1928. The song became "an instant best-seller" Note: Veteran collectors of blues and jazz 78s of the 1920s and 1930s have pointed out that official sales figures do not exist for this particular record, and that sales of "over a million" (as previously reported here) is extremely unlikely. A more realistic figure is thought to be at least 100,000 copies, ranging upwards, perhaps, as much as 200,000 – although again, we must stress this is purely conjecture, based on the evidence of the surviving copies. and one of the first blues standards, inspiring many blues songs of the era.
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Bootleg recordings range in quality from static-filled amateur tapings where a fan has snuck a recorder and mic into a show to the holy grail of bootlegs, the "soundboard bootleg", in which an enterprising person (who has access to the control room) has discreetly plugged a recorder into the mixing board's line out. blues : In a jazz context, when "blues" or "solo on blues" appears at the start of a solo section, it is an abbreviation for "blues progression"; it instructs the performer to improvise solos over a 12-bar blues progression based on I, IV, and V7 chords. The term "blues" also refers to a style of soloing and playing over this type of progression. blue note : An altered note, often a flatted third, used for emotional effect in blues songs.
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The music of Taj Mahal for the 1972 movie Sounder marked a revival of interest in acoustic blues. Like jazz, rock and roll, heavy metal music, hip hop music, reggae, rap, country music, and pop music, blues has been accused of being the "devil's music" and of inciting violence and other poor behavior.SFGate In the early 20th century, the blues was considered disreputable, especially as white audiences began listening to the blues during the 1920s. In the early twentieth century, W.C. Handy was the first to popularize blues-influenced music among non-black Americans. During the blues revival of the 1960s and '70s, acoustic blues artist Taj Mahal and legendary Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins wrote and performed music that figured prominently in the popularly and critically acclaimed film Sounder (1972).
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Broonzy expanded his work during the 1940s as he honed his songwriting skills, which showed a knack for appealing to his more sophisticated city audience as well as people that shared his country roots. His work in this period shows he performed across a wider musical spectrum than almost any other bluesman before or since, including in his repertoire ragtime, hokum blues, country blues, urban blues, jazz-tinged songs, folk songs and spirituals. After World War II, Broonzy recorded songs that were the bridge that allowed many younger musicians to cross over to the future of the blues: the electric blues of postwar Chicago. His 1945 recordings of "Where the Blues Began", with Big Maceo on piano and Buster Bennett on sax, and "Martha Blues", with Memphis Slim on piano, clearly showed the way forward.
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Garofalo, p. 26. and popular songs to jigs and other dances played by large African American bands in northern cities during the end of the 19th century. The most famous ragtime performer and composer was Scott Joplin, known for works such as "Maple Leaf Rag".Garofalo, p. 26. Blues became a part of American popular music in the 1920s, when classic female blues singers like Bessie Smith grew popular. At the same time, record companies launched the field of race music, which was mostly blues targeted at African American audiences. The most famous of these acts went on to inspire much of the later popular development of the blues and blues-derived genres, including the legendary delta blues musician Robert Johnson and Piedmont blues musician Blind Willie McTell.
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Since 1990 regularly different events have taken place regularly in the Heimathaus Twist amongst others readings, classic music, folk and jazz. Especially because of its blues concerts the Heimathaus Twist has gained great popularity within the blues fan community. The good reputation and high number of gigs with well known bands and musicians for instance headliners like Albert Hammond and Maggie Reilly, Chris Farlowe , Ten Years After , John Lee Hooker Jr . or Hamburg Blues Band lead to the nickname „Blues-Mekka im Moor“ (Blues Mecca in the bog).
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Arnold, J.W.. "Jason Ricci Bringing His Blues Harmonica Magic to K.C.". Camp KC April 30, 2009 The band as a whole has been nominated for Blues Band of the Year three times by Blues Wax magazine. Ricci won the Blues Critic Award for Harmonica Player of the Year (2008) and was nominated for a Blues Music Award for Harmonica Player of the Year in 2009 and 2010. By January 2011, Ricci had relocated to New Orleans, and assembled a new band, Approved By Snakes, with guitarist John Lisi.
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Suhler also appears on the 2008 Elvin Bishop album, "The Blues Rolls On". Suhler co- produced an album in 2010 for another Texas-Based Blues Band, "Jason Elmore & Hoodoo Witch" (Jason Elmore: Lead Guitar/Vocals, Brandon Katona: Bass, Mike Talbot: Drums) entitled "Upside Your Head" which received widespread acclaim in the Blues genre. He also contributed consulting/performance work on Hoodoo Witch's second album entitled "Tell You What" which was released on March 19, 2013. This album was nominated by "Blues Blast" magazine for Best Blues Rock Album for 2013.
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Over several decades, the use of these new instruments, and the interaction between established city musicians such as Big Bill Broonzy and new arrivals from the South, produced a new musical genre – electrified, urban blues, later coined, "Chicago Blues." This amplified, new sound was different from the acoustic country blues played in the South. It was popularized by blues giants such as Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Bo Diddley and Howlin' Wolf and evolved into rock & roll. From the first, the blues signified a lament or elegy for hard times, though it outgrew that limitation.
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Sheet music for "The Memphis Blues" The Memphis blues is a style of blues music created from the 1910s to the 1930s by musicians in the Memphis area, such as Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis and Memphis Minnie. The style was popular in vaudeville and medicine shows and was associated with Beale Street, the main entertainment area in Memphis, W. C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues", published the song "The Memphis Blues". In lyrics, the phrase has been used to describe a depressed mood.Bolden, Tony (2004).
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When he last recorded commercially in 1937, rural-style blues was giving way to urban, ensemble blues styles. By 1940, performers, such as Louis Jordan with jump blues and T-Bone Walker with West Coast blues, were becoming popular and the electrified-Delta sound of Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker was still a few years away. As Gioia notes, "It's not clear what audience Melrose had in mind when he agreed to record these songs". When "Parchman Farm Blues" was released as a single by Okeh Records in 1940, it went largely unnoticed.
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Maxwell Street blues performers and onlookers circa 1950 An early incubator for Chicago blues was the open-air market on Maxwell Street, one of the largest open-air markets in the nation. Residents of the black community would frequent it to buy and sell just about anything. It was a natural location for blues musicians to perform, earn tips, and jam with other musicians. The standard path for blues musicians was to start out as street musicians and at house parties and eventually make their way to blues clubs.
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Many Delta blues artists, such as Big Joe Williams, moved to Detroit and Chicago, creating a pop-influenced city blues style. This was displaced by the new Chicago blues sound in the early 1950s, pioneered by Delta bluesmen Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Little Walter, harking back to a Delta-influenced sound, but with amplified instruments. Delta blues was also an inspiration for the creation of British skiffle music, from which eventually came the British invasion bands, while simultaneously influencing British blues, which led to the birth of early hard rock and heavy metal.
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Bonny B. was hired as a teacher at the harmonica blues school ETM in Geneva . On February 28, 2009, on a bet, he became the only harmonica player in the world to play the harmonica for 24 hours nonstop (a Guinness world record), to raise money for his school in Cambodia. ALso in 2009, the first Bonny B. Blues Club opened in Fribourg, where he organized blues concerts with American artists. His second blues club, the Rock Bottom Blues & Jazz Club, opened in Giez in 2010, in collaboration with Fabienne Decker.
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The twenty-first century has seen an upsurge in interest in the blues in Britain that can be seen in the success of previously unknown acts like Seasick Steve, in the return to the blues by major figures who began in the first boom, including Peter Green,R. Brunning, The Fleetwood Mac Story: Rumours and Lies (Omnibus Press, 2004), p. 161. Mick Fleetwood,"Mick Fleetwood Blues Band", Blues Matters, retrieved 20/06/09. Chris Rea"Chris Rea: Confessions of a blues survivor", Independent, 26/03/04, retrieved 20/03/09.
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Eugene Melnyk Sports Field The junior and senior football teams are called the Kerry Blues. The Jr. Kerry Blues won their third Ontario Regional Invitational in 2008 (having previously won in 2002 and 2004) In 2008, the Senior Kerry Blues won their seventh Metro Bowl, making the St. Michael's Kerry Blues the most bowl-winning team in Ontario. They have won the Metro Bowl three years in a row. There have been many Kerry Blues Football alumni that have gone on to win the CIAU National Football Championship with their respective universities.
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"Who Did You Think I Was" is the debut single by blues-rock group John Mayer Trio from their first album, Try!. As it is from a live album, the single itself is a live recording. Speculation that Mayer was moving away from his known field of sensitive acoustic pop rock into blues was confirmed by the release of this single, being that it's a moderately heavy blues-rock song. Furthermore, the line from the first verse, "Got a brand new blues that I can't explain", indicates Mayer exploring blues unlike before.
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In 1951, Elmore James recorded the song as "Dust My Broom" and "made it the classic as we know it", according to blues historian Gerard Herzhaft. James' slide guitar adaptation of Johnson's triplet figure has been identified as one of the most famous blues guitar riffs and has inspired many rock performers. The song has become a blues standard, with numerous renditions by a variety of musicians. It also has been selected for the Blues Foundation Blues Hall of Fame, the Grammy Hall of Fame, and the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.
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The Blues Brothers is a platform game based on the band The Blues Brothers, where the object is to evade police and get to a blues concert. The game was released for IBM PC, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Commodore 64, and Atari ST in 1991, and for the NES and Game Boy in 1992. It was created by Titus France. A sequel, The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure, was released for the SNES in 1993 (as The Blues Brothers) and for IBM PC compatibles and for the Game Boy in 1994.
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Recognition for the label and its artists includes 11 Juno Awards, six Grammy Award nominations, several Blues Music Awards and W.C. Handy Blues Awards, nine Canadian Country Music Awards for Label of the Year, more than 30 Maple Blues Awards and a number of Western Canada Music Awards. Stony Plain Records has earned several Gold and Platinum records for releases by artists as Ian Tyson, Corb Lund and various Best Of compilations. The label was the recipient of The Blues Foundation's Keeping the Blues Alive Award in 2014.
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Luboš Andršt (born 26 July 1948, Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech jazz fusion, rock and blues guitarist, composer, producer, and guitar teacher. Known primarily for his electric rock-influenced guitar playing, he frequently played acoustic guitar on jazz fusion recordings in the 1970s. Since the late 1990s, he has been best known as the key figure on the Czech blues and blues- rock scene with his Luboš Andršt Blues Band , and has shared the stage with a number of American blues musicians, including B.B. King. He founded his first band, the Roosters, in 1966.
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The "Bentonia School," "Bentonia-style" or "Bentonia Blues" is more accurately described as the unique, haunting, country blues style that originated in and immediately around the small town of Bentonia. The annual Bentonia Blues Festival is held the third Saturday of June in downtown Bentonia. The festival's Blues Stage is always set up in front of the world-famous Blue Front Cafe [sic erat scriptum], which is still operated by proprietor Jimmy "Duck" Holmes who, as a young man, largely learned the local style from Bentonia Blues master Jack Owens.
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The club that is now Manningham United Blues originally was founded in 1965 under the name Fawkner however in 1994 they changed their club name to Fawkner Blues, with a brief change to Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues after a merge with Whittlesea in 2004 which ended in 2006. merge with Manningham United in 2014 as Manningham adopted the blues to become Manningham United Blues. Manningham have also had several name changes. Beginning as Manningham Junior Soccer Club in 1999 the club swapped out the soccer for a more traditional football.
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AllMusic stated: "Lightnin' Hopkins may be Texas's most distinctive and influential blues export. His easy, fluid fingerpicking and witty, extemporaneous storytelling are always a delight, and his performances on Last Night Blues are no exception. The album is spare and acoustic, with Hopkins's voice and guitar accompanied by minimal percussion and Sonny Terry's harmonica ... this dynamite disc represents what the blues should be: stripped-down, soulful, and full of truth". The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings awarded the album 3 stars noting "Sonny Terry's contributions to Last Night Blues is entirely and discreetly responsive".
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Aykroyd was a close friend of John Belushi. According to Aykroyd, their first meeting helped spark the Blues Brothers act. When they met in a club that Aykroyd frequented, he played a blues record in the background, and it stimulated a fascination with blues in Belushi, who was primarily a fan of heavy rock bands at the time. Aykroyd educated Belushi on the finer points of blues music, and with a little encouragement from then-SNL music director Paul Shaffer, it led to the creation of their Blues Brothers characters.
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In 1980, Townsend's album Mule was nominated in the first national Blues Music Awards in the Traditional Blues Album category. In 1982, his album St. Louis Blues (with his wife Vernell Townsend) was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the Traditional Blues Album category. Townsend was a recipient of a 1985 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. In 1995 he was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
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The CF Martin company issued the Woody Mann signature guitar. Mann founded International Guitar Seminars and Acoustic Sessions and has authored books and DVDs, including The Blues Fakeboook, Anthology of Blues Guitar, The Art of Blues Guitar DVD series, Lisboa, The Guitar of Woody Mann, and the Complete Blues Guitar Method. He developed an online guitar instruction site and conducts seminars and classes throughout the world. From 1981–2000, he was a faculty member at the New School in New York, teaching jazz improvisation, music theory, and acoustic blues and ragtime guitar.
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In the early 1950s blues music was largely known in Britain through blues-influenced boogie-woogie, and the jump blues of Fats Waller and Louis Jordan.R. F. Schwartz, How Britain Got the Blues: the Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), , pp. 22 and 44. Imported recordings of American artists were brought over by African American servicemen stationed in Britain during and after World War II, merchant seamen visiting the ports of London, Liverpool, Newcastle on Tyne and Belfast, and in a trickle of (illegal) imports.
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The album has been critically well-received, described as "legendary", "seminal", and "one of the classic blues albums of the decade." Its success established Musselwhite in the field of blues music, but it also influenced rock and roll. The Southside Band, named for Chicago's South Side, was a combination of blues rhythm section—with Fred Below and Bob Anderson—and rock-influenced musicians Barry Goldberg and Harvey Mandel. Among the first blues albums targeted also to fans of rock and roll, it was influential in bridging the gap between blues and rock.
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W. C. Handy (1873-1958) was a blues composer and musician, often known as the "Father of the Blues". Handy remains among the most influential of American songwriters. Though he was one of many musicians who played the distinctively American form of music known as the blues, he is credited with giving it its contemporary form. While Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, he took the blues from a not very well known regional music style to one of the dominant forces in American music.
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City or urban blues styles were more codified and elaborate, as a performer was no longer within their local, immediate community, and had to adapt to a larger, more varied audience's aesthetic.Garofalo, p. 47. Classic female urban and vaudeville blues singers were popular in the 1920s, among them "the big three"—Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Lucille Bogan. Mamie Smith, more a vaudeville performer than a blues artist, was the first African American to record a blues song in 1920; her second record, "Crazy Blues", sold 75,000 copies in its first month.
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Jim O'Neal (born November 25, 1948, Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States) is an American blues expert, writer, record producer, and record company executive. He co-founded America's first blues magazine, Living Blues, in Chicago in 1970, and wrote the column BluEsoterica. O'Neal also co-founded Rooster Blues Records and, as of 2007, operated the Stackhouse record label, with bases in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and Kansas City. O'Neal produced Lonnie Shields' debut album, Portrait, on Rooster Blues in 1993, which achieved notable critical acclaim, being cited as one of the best debut albums of that year.
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It marked the first time that the group appeared in Blues and Americana Music Charts. Blues Blast magazine said, " Johnny & The MoTones come out swingin’ long and strong with their self- produced collection of soul-based swing, jump swamp and gospel blues. They want you to “Shake It,” and deliver on all counts. Johnny & The MoTones have received international attention as Vincente Zumel Producer of La Hora Del Blues Show in SPAIN wrote: "Johnny & The MoTones come back again with an album full of electrifying rhythm and blues and soul.
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Large jazz bands had begun to replace traditional blues, which had begun to move to the underground music scene. Southwestern "shouting" blues singers developed into a style called rhythm and blues, which was largely huge rhythm units smashing away behind screaming blues singers. The performance of the artists became just as important as the performance of the songs. Rhythm and blues, despite its growth in popularity, remained a "black" form of music that had not yet reached the level of commercialism where it would be popular in the white community.
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Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock: electric guitar, electric bass guitar, and drums, sometimes with keyboards and harmonica. From its beginnings in the early to mid-1960s, blues rock has gone through several stylistic shifts and along the way it inspired and influenced hard rock, Southern rock, and early heavy metal. Blues rock continues to be an influence in the 2020s, with performances and recordings by popular artists.
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Mathis James Reed (September 6, 1925August 29, 1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His particular style of electric blues was popular with blues as well as non-blues audiences. Reed's songs such as "Honest I Do" (1957), "Baby What You Want Me to Do" (1960), "Big Boss Man" (1961), and "Bright Lights, Big City" (1961) appeared on both Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues and Hot 100 singles charts. Reed influenced other musicians, such as Elvis Presley, Hank Williams Jr., and the Rolling Stones, who recorded his songs.
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In 1983 she returned to secular music with Sweet and Slow, a set informed by vintage jazz and blues. Muldaur continued to perform, tour, and record after her success in the mid-1970s, including a turn at the Teatro ZinZanni in 2001. Her 2005 release, Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul, was nominated for both a Blues Music Award (formerly the W.C. Handy Award) and a Grammy Award in the Traditional Blues category. In 2013, she was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female) category.
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Handy was one of the most influential songwriters in the United States. One of many musicians who played the distinctively American blues music, Handy did not create the blues genre but was the first to publish music in the blues form, thereby taking the blues from a regional music style (Delta blues) with a limited audience to a new level of popularity. Handy was an educated musician who used elements of folk music in his compositions. He was scrupulous in documenting the sources of his works, which frequently combined stylistic influences from various performers.
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It also won two Blues Music Awards for Best Blues CD and Best Traditional Blues CD. In April 2014, Electro-Fi Records released Hummel's The Hustle Is Really On. It featured the 'Golden State Lone Star Revue' as well as Kid Andersen, Sid Morris, Doug James, and June Core. The CD made the Living Blues Radio Charts for four months reaching number two. It was also nominated for Best Traditional Blues CD in 2015. In 2016, Hummel and the Golden State Lone Star Revue released their debut album on Electro-Fi Records.
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Most risk factors studied have not clearly and consistently demonstrated an association with postpartum blues. These include sociodemographic factors, such as age and marital status, obstetric factors, such as delivery complications or low birth weight. Factors most consistently shown to be predictive of postpartum blues are personal and family history of depression. This is of particular interest given of the bidirectional relationship between postpartum blues and postpartum depression: a history of postpartum depression appears to be a risk factor for developing postpartum blues, and postpartum blues confers a higher risk of developing subsequent postpartum depression.
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Bentonia School, a style of guitar-playing sometimes attributed to blues players from Bentonia, Mississippi, features a shared repertoire of songs, guitar tunings and chord-voicings with a distinctively minor tonality not found in other styles of blues music.Blues: A Regional Experience, Bob L. Eagle, Eric S. LeBlanc, Greenwood Publishing Group (2013), p.212 While not all blues musicians from Bentonia played in this style, one particular blues player, Skip James (1902–1969), had a distinct, complicated, and highly sophisticated style that veered from typical blues guitar playing. His style became known as Bentonia School.
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Robert Calvin Bland (né Robert Calvin Brooks; January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013), known professionally as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American blues singer. Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B.; He was described as "among the great storytellers of blues and soul music... [who] created tempestuous arias of love, betrayal and resignation, set against roiling, dramatic orchestrations, and left the listener drained but awed." He was sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues" and as the "Sinatra of the Blues".
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He recorded and played on numerous Chicago blues bands including Dave Cadillac and the Chicago Redhots, Sam Cockrell and the Grooves, Nellie Tiger Travis, Big Ray and Chicago's Most Wanted, Big James and The Chicago Playboys, and Peaches Staten and the Grooveshakers. He performed with well-known blues artists such as Koko Taylor, Buddy Guy, Shemekia Copeland, Jimmy Johnson, Son Seals, and Willie Kent. He tours in Europe and he has played at the Chicago Blues Festival. In 2014, he was inducted into the Chicago Blues Halls of Fame as a Master Blues Artist.
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In 2015 Otis published with Billy Price the album This Time For Real. During 2015 Otis Clay and Johnny Rawls won the Blues Blast Award for Soul Album of the Year for their album "Soul Brothers". "Soul Brothers" was also nominated for Blues Music Awards Soul Album of the Year and Living Blues Magazine Blues Album of the Year. It was selected as the #6 Blues Album of the Year in the Downbeat Magazine Critics’ Poll, being the only soul album on the list of top 20 albums.
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Slim Harpo (born James Isaac Moore, January 11, 1924 – January 31, 1970), was an American blues musician, a leading exponent of the swamp blues style, and "one of the most commercially successful blues artists of his day". His most successful and influential recordings included "I'm a King Bee" (1957), "Rainin' in My Heart" (1961), and "Baby Scratch My Back" (1966) which reached number one on Billboard's R&B; chart and number 16 on its broader Hot 100 singles chart. He was a master of the blues harmonica, known in blues circles as a "harp".
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That same year he appeared as a member of the Legendary Blues Band, backing John Lee Hooker in the movie The Blues Brothers. Johnson moved to the East Coast and began fronting his own band, the Magic Rockers. His "Walkin' the Dog" was recorded live at the Montreux Festival's Blues Night. He won a Grammy Award in 1985 for Best Traditional Blues Album for his part in Blues Explosion. He recorded three albums released by Telarc Records: Slammin’ on the West Side (1996), Got to Find a Way (1998), and Talkin' About Soul (2001).
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Saturday Night Blues is a compilation album of recordings by Canadian blues performers, released by Stony Plain Records and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1991."The continued blues revival added a cheery note; Stony Plain Records celebrated 15 good years in business". Edmonton Journal, January 2, 1992. Subtitled "The Great Canadian Blues Project, Volume 1", the album was released as a tie-in to the CBC Radio program Saturday Night Blues, and was compiled from a mix of previously-released material, new unreleased recordings and performance tapes from the CBC Radio archives.
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The blues that developed in the 1940s and 1950s in and around the city of New Orleans was strongly influenced by jazz and incorporated Caribbean influences, it is dominated by piano and saxophone but has also produced major guitar bluesmen. Major figures in the genre include Professor Longhair and Guitar Slim, who both produced major regional, R&B; and national hits. Louisiana blues created a specialized form of blues music sometimes using zydeco instrumentation and slow, tense rhythms that is closely related to New Orleans blues and swamp blues from Baton Rouge.
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"Farther Up the Road" or "Further On up the Road" is a blues song first recorded in 1957 by Bobby "Blue" Bland. It is an early influential Texas shuffle and features guitar playing that represents the transition from the 1940s blues style to the 1960s blues-rock style. The song became Bland's first record chart success and one of his best-known tunes. As a blues standard, "Farther Up the Road" has been performed and recorded by numerous blues and other artists, including Eric Clapton who has made it part of his repertoire.
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In 1960, "Baby What You Want Me to Do" reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot R&B; Singles chart and number 37 on the magazine's Hot 100. In 2004, Reed's song was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in the "Classic of Blues Recordings" category. Herzhaft identifies the song as a blues standard. Koda commented: "Baby What You Want Me to Do" "was already a barroom staple of blues, country, and rock & roll bands by the early '60s" and has spawned versions by a variety of blues, R&B;, and rock artists.
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As a result of this exposure, Qualls performed at the Utrecht Blues Festival, where Juke Blues noted he was a surprise hit. This led to engagements across Europe and the United States, including performances at the Long Beach Blues Festival (1996), the Chicago Blues Festival, and the King Biscuit Blues Festival. Despite this newfound success, Qualls continued to live in a house next to the Texas and Pacific Railway line in Elmo. He occasionally performed in Deep Ellum and Fort Worth, but generally he hated the urban environment.
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Kerri Simpson is a blues singer from Melbourne. Her album Confessin' the Blues was nominated for a 1999 ARIA Award for Best Blues & Roots Album. Predominantly a blues musician, she has also performed country with Kerri Simpson and the Prodigal Sons, gospel with the Gospel Belles and Ska with The Ska Vendors. Gospel Belles were formed in 2006 and consists of singers Kerri Simpson, Kelly Auty, Marisa Quigley and Diana Wolfe.
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In 1999 Hohner bought the molds to the JT-30 shell and Astatic's very last batch of crystal elements and it was sold as the Hohner 1490 Blues Blaster. The Blues Blaster elements were Astatic MC-151 Crystal elements until 2001. Later versions of the Blues Blaster used a Japanese element. The Astatic JT-30 Roadhouse was the same as the Blues blaster except with a different connector.
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Walker was also named most outstanding male blues singer at the annual Living Blues Awards in 2018. J.D. Nash, "Soul Blues Singer Wee Willie Walker Dead at 77", American Blues Scene, November 20, 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2019 In recent years, Walker toured internationally, in Europe and South America. Walker died at his home in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 2019, aged 77, shortly after returning from a recording session.
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The Blues Is Alive and Well is the 18th studio album by American blues musician Buddy Guy. It was released on June 15, 2018 by RCA/Silvertone Records. The Blues Is Alive and Well won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album at the 61st Grammy Awards. Keith Richards and Jeff Beck play guitar on the song "Cognac", and Mick Jagger plays harmonica on the song "You Did the Crime".
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It was eventually released as She Lyin'. The material for Greatest of the Delta Blues Singers was recorded in the home of the musicologist and author Richard K. Spottswood in December 1964 and completed in July 1965. It was released on Spottswood's Melodeon Records which was later sold to Biograph Records. Biograph reissued the material under the same title adding "Motherless & Fatherless", "Skip's Worried Blues", "Catfish Blues" and "Cypress Grove Blues".
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The Mustangs are a British blues rock band that was formed in Hampshire in 2001. Signed to the Skyfire Records label, they have released 11 albums, including Split Decision, which reached number 5 on the iTunes blues chart. They are unusual on the blues rock circuit as their albums are made of entirely original material. The Mustangs were nominated for Best Band at the 2010 British Blues Awards.
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The Mississippi Delta (not to be confused with the Mississippi River Delta, in Louisiana) Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, and is regarded as a regional variant of country blues. Guitar and harmonica are its dominant instruments; slide guitar is a hallmark of the style. Vocal styles in Delta blues range from introspective and soulful to passionate and fiery.
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Jack de Keyzer is a British-born Canadian blues guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer. He has twice won the Juno Award, Canada's highest musical honour, and seven times received Maple Blues Awards, including for Blues Album of the Year in 2000 and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. Real Blues Magazine crowned him Live Act Of The Year in 2001, and has twice named him Guitarist of the Year.
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Ghost Town Blues Band is an American blues and blues rock band. Formed in 2009 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, they have released five albums (including one live recording) since 2010. Their 2019 album, Shine, reached number one on the US Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart. They have opened for the Steve Miller Band, John Mayall, Keb' Mo', Jonny Lang, John Lee Hooker Jr. and Booker T. Jones.
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Obviously, Chicago blues acts are common. In 2015, the festival celebrated the centenary of the births of Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon. The Centennial Tribute featured several musicians who had played with Muddy Waters as well as his sons Mud Morganfield and Big Bill Morganfield, with Alex Dixon playing bass. Also, in keeping with the blues' influence on other musical genres, there are some soul, jazz blues and blues-rock acts.
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He became a vegetarian and shared his wisdom and recipes with his friends. In 2009, he was named Blues Artist of the Year by the Mississippi Delta Blues Society of Indianola. In the same year he performed at the 8th annual Ponderosa Stomp and the Notodden Blues Festival. Ulmer recorded the album Blues Come Yonder, released by Hill Country Records in 2011; Jimbo Mathus was a member of the backing band.
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Blues & Souls charts, from the start of such, became increasingly popular within the UK. During 1979, DJ Pete Tong started being a journalist at Blues & Soul. Within the following year, he became the features editor of the magazine. Fellow UK publication Black Music was also absorbed in April 1984 by Blues & Soul. Blues & Soul has also, from its inception, bestowed awards to artistes based upon an annual readers poll.
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Aron Burton (June 15, 1938 – February 29, 2016) was an American electric and Chicago blues singer, bass guitarist and songwriter. In a long career as a sideman he played with Freddie King, Albert Collins and Junior Wells and released a number of solo albums, including Good Blues to You (Delmark Records, 1999). His recorded work was nominated four times for a Blues Music Award in the category Blues Instrumentalist—Bass.
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"So we weren't crazy," wrote Ben Ratliff in the New York Times, "finally, here's proof that Omer Avital's sextet, which played at Smalls to a small but deep following in the late 90s, really was good." . In 2009, Avital and Ravid Kahalani formed Yemen Blues, a world music ensemble that combines Yemenite music with funk, blues and jazz. In 2011, Yemen Blues released their debut album, Yemen Blues.
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Muddy Waters was one of the most popular blues artists of the 1950s. Beginning in 1948, he had fifteen singles that appeared on the Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records chart. His debut album, The Best of Muddy Waters (1958), contained twelve of his hits. However, by 1960, what had been the traditional blues audiences were moving away from Chicago-style blues towards the more polished R&B; and soul sounds.
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Recordings by other classic female blues singers, including Sara Martin, Alberta Hunter, and Bessie Smith soon followed. In 1947, the song was revived by the jump blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon as "Ain't Nobody's Business". It was the best-selling race record of 1949 and inspired numerous adaptations of the song. In 2011, Witherspoon's rendition was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame as a "Classic of Blues Recording".
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Gugun Blues Shelter a.k.a. Self Titled is the third studio album by Indonesian blues rock band Gugun Blues Shelter, which later, in 2011 they also known as Gugun Power Trio. The album was the first one under Gugun Blues Shelter name, which replaced the past name Gugun and the Bluesbug. In the band line-up, only Gugun, the lead guitar and lead vocal, that still remained as original member.
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Those recordings were released in 2006 as Back to Bentonia on CD as Holmes's debut release and the first release by Broke and Hungry Records. The album featured some traditional Bentonia Blues songs as well as original compositions. Holmes was awarded two Living Blues Awards for Back to Bentonia, including Best Debut Blues Album and Best Acoustic Blues Album. Konkel was awarded Producer of the Year for 2006.
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Davis has won numerous local awards as a blues artist and vocalist, and continues to perform locally and nationally. The late 1990s saw the emergence of The White Stripes, led by guitarist and Detroit native Jack White. Although ostensibly a Garage rock band, a significant amount of their material consisted of blues cover songs, and the band is considered a proponent of the Punk blues and Blues rock genres.
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Nelson Street Mississippi Blues Trail Marker African Americans in the Delta developed rich varieties of innovative music. Nelson Street is a historic strip of blues clubs that drew crowds in the 1940s and 1950s to the flourishing club scene to hear Delta blues, big band, jump blues and jazz. Record companies came to Greenville to recruit talent. It was similar to Beale Street in mid-20th century Memphis.
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James Lewis Carter Ford (probably June 24, 1923 – July 16, 2013) was an American blues musician, using the name T-Model Ford. Unable to remember his exact date of birth, he began his musical career in his early 70s, and continuously recorded for the Fat Possum label, then switched to Alive Naturalsound Records. His musical style combined the rawness of Delta blues with Chicago blues and juke joint blues styles.
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Turner was a recipient of a 1992 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. He was nominated for two Blues Music Awards (formerly the W.C. Handy Blues Awards) in 2000 and 2003 in the Blues Instrumentalist: Other category. In 2009, Turner was honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail in Como.
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Rush received recognition for his music after the release of his 22nd album, Rush, when he was awarded "Best Male Soul Blues Artist" at the Blues Music Awards. He also received "best acoustic artist" and "best acoustic album" for his album Raw. In 2006, Rush was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. In 2008, Rush was honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Robert Lee "Smokey" Wilson (July 11, 1936 – September 8, 2015) was an American West Coast blues guitarist. He spent most of his career performing West Coast blues and juke joint blues in Los Angeles, California. He recorded a number of albums for record labels such as P-Vine Records, Bullseye Blues and Texmuse Records. His career got off to a late start, with international recognition eluding him until the 1990s.
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"Little Red Rooster" (or "The Red Rooster" as it was first titled) is a blues standard credited to arranger and songwriter Willie Dixon. The song was first recorded in 1961 by American blues musician Howlin' Wolf in the Chicago blues style. His vocal and slide guitar playing are key elements of the song. It is rooted in the Delta blues tradition and the theme is derived from folklore.
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Blues, a genre of music, originated from songs that slaves would sing called 'sorrow songs'. Blues mostly existed deep in the south and mostly in small towns like Memphis and New Orleans. Blues often consisted of a sole singer with an instrument, usually guitar expressing their emotions. Blues music generally comes from the inspiration of love, sex, betrayal, poverty, bad luck, and lifestyles that are less than ideal.
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Shirley & Lee's "Feel So Good" reached No. 2 on Billboards Rhythm & Blues Records chart for "Most Played in Juke Boxes","Rhythm & Blues Records - Most Played in Juke Boxes", Billboard, November 26, 1955. p. 48. Retrieved April 4, 2018. No. 5 on Billboards Rhythm & Blues Records chart for "Best Sellers in Stores","Rhythm & Blues Records - Best Sellers in Stores", Billboard, November 26, 1955. p. 48. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
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Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. p. 155. the session resulted in two singles released under Booker's name, one on Modern Records and the other on the associated Blues & Rhythm label, as well as releases by Boines. The Blues & Rhythm release, pairing "No Ridin' Blues" with "Rabbit Blues", sold well locally, but Booker did not record again for Modern.
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Jerome Arnold (born Romeo Maurice Arnold; November 12, 1936, Chicago)Eagle, Bob; Eric S. LeBlanc (2013), Blues - A Regional Experience, Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers, p. 70. is an American bassist, known for his work with Howlin' Wolf,"The Paul Butterfield Blues Band", Los Angeles Times, June 23, 1994. and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the 1960s."Butterfield Blues Band Offers Moving Experience", Montreal Gazette, May 29, 1967.
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Hokum blues celebrated both comedic lyrical content and a boisterous, farcical performance style. Tampa Red's classic "Tight Like That" (1928) is a sly wordplay with the double meaning of being "tight" with someone coupled with a more salacious physical familiarity. Blues songs with sexually explicit lyrics were known as dirty blues. The lyrical content became slightly simpler in postwar blues, which tended to focus on relationship woes or sexual worries.
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The most well- known mondegreen in Brazil is in the song "Noite do Prazer" (Night of Pleasure) by Claudio Zoli: the line "Na madrugada a vitrola rolando um blues, tocando B. B. King sem parar" (At dawn the phonograph playing blues, playing B. B. King nonstop), is often misheard as "Na madrugada a vitrola rolando um blues, trocando de biquini sem parar" (at dawn the phonograph playing blues, changing bikinis nonstop).
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This internet-based curriculum traces the roots of the blues, its impact on jazz, and its importance to American history and culture. Lesson plans for American history and social studies students explain the connections between the blues and jazz from the blues' inception to today. The program's public school touring component includes blues/jazz artists such as Herbie Hancock, Alvin "Youngblood" Hart, Chris Thomas King, Keb' Mo', and Joe Louis Walker.
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The group consists of Joshua Howell on vocals, harmonica, and guitar; Pete Devine on drums and other percussion, and Joe Kyle Jr. on bass. Their music is mainly rooted in the Delta Blues and Hill country blues of Mississippi. Each of their albums feature a mix of original compositions, traditional blues songs, and covers of songs composed or popularized by early blues artists, though not usually those artists’ most familiar work.
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Although this recording was their first full production album, the group's versatile approach to their music was not lost. The Amazon Editorial Staff remarked; "This talented group of musicians effortlessly switch gears from electric blues to traditional blues to jump blues to Rhythm and Blues and make it all work together! The Mo-Tones unmistakable sound lives on in Nothing To Lose!" The group's musicianship was also being noticed.
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In 2007 Ranger was selected as a member of the Blues Wider Training Group. His form for the Taniwha was such that he was signed by the Blues for 2009. Ranger made his Super 14 debut in the Blues 13 February victory over the Western Force in Perth. Ranger was suspended for one match following a late and high tackle in the Blues 2009 loss to the Bulls in Pretoria.
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Fonfara continues to play with The Lincolns, while remaining a member of The Downchild Blues Band, which he joined in 1990. In 2000, 2004, 2007 and 2009, he was the recipient of the Maple Blues Award, as piano/keyboard player of the year. Fonfara's career-based contributions to blues music were recognized through his nomination in 2008List of 2008 Maple Blues Award winners and nominees ; www.torontobluessociety.com. Fonfara lost to Amos Garrett.
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"I'm So Glad" is a Delta blues-style song originally recorded by American musician Skip James in 1931. Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft notes "This spiritual probably dates back to the beginning of the blues". Blues writer Stephen Calt describes it as "a Two-Step piece marked by fiendishly fast playing [in] an eight bar arrangement single measures." He adds it is not related to an earlier Lonnie Johnson tune.
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His first solo album was Little blues, in 1995. In 2000, he recorded his second disc, named On the loose. In 2007, celebrating 20 years of Blues Etílicos, his band recorded an album in honor of Muddy Waters, one of the biggest exponent blues musician. Around two years later, Guimarães recorded another solo album, named The blues follows me, and he realized many shows around Brazil, spreading this work.
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Geeshie Wiley was an American country blues singer and guitar player who recorded six songs for Paramount Records, issued on three records in April 1930.Death Certificate for Thornton Wiley, dated December 13, 1931 According to the blues historian Don Kent, Wiley "may well have been the rural South's greatest female blues singer and musician".Kent, Don (1994). Liner notes to "Mississippi Masters: Early American Blues Classics 1927–35".
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In 1989, Seattle label PopLlama released Dwyer's album George Michael Jackson: King Of Gonzo Folk. Since 2000, Dwyer has focused on blues, claiming inspiration from "the ghost of Jimmy Reed." Vintage Guitar magazine (November 2004) called his 2003 album Blues Guy Now "a modern blues masterpiece". His songs "Lookin' For A Woman", "Time To Try", "Celebration Blues", and "No Longer My Girlfriend" were featured on episodes of MTV's reality show MADE.
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Young African Americans dancing in a juke joint in Mississippi Blues dancing is a family of historical dances that developed alongside and were danced to blues music, or the contemporary dances that are danced in that aesthetic. Amateur Dancer carried an article entitled "Blues and Rhythm and Blues Dancing" in a July/August 1991 issue.Craig R. Hutchinson, Swing Dancer: a swing dancer's manual, version 1.17, 1998. Pontiac Swing Dance Club.
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A musical partnership began shortly afterwards. Richards and Taylor often met Jagger at his house. The meetings moved to Taylor's house in late 1961 where Alan Etherington and Bob Beckwith joined the trio; the quintet called themselves the Blues Boys. In March 1962, the Blues Boys read about the Ealing Jazz Club in Jazz News newspaper, which mentioned Alexis Korner's rhythm and blues band, Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated.
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Jack N. Johnson, known as Big Jack Johnson (July 30, 1939 or 1940 – March 14, 2011) was an American electric blues musician, one of the "present-day exponents of an edgier, electrified version of the raw, uncut Delta blues sound." He was one of a small number of blues musicians who played the mandolin. He won a W. C. Handy Award in 2003 for best acoustic blues album.
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I'm a Bluesman is an album by blues guitarist and singer Johnny Winter. This was his first studio album with new material in twelve years, released by Virgin Records on June 25, 2004. The album is a mixture of original songs and covers of blues standards. As the album's title suggests, the songs have strong emphasis on traditional electric blues over the blues-rock elements on some previous Winter albums.
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Vladimir, Bogdanov. All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues, Backbeat Books, p. 133 (2003) - In 1986, Crawford began working with blues-jazz organ master Jimmy McGriff. They recorded five co-leader dates for Milestone Records: Soul Survivors, Steppin' Up, On the Blue Side, Road Tested, and Crunch Time, as well as two dates for Telarc Records: Right Turn on Blue and Blues Groove.
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Memphis Slim (born John Len Chatman, September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988) was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano. A song he first cut in 1947, "Every Day I Have the Blues", has become a blues standard, recorded by many other artists. He made over 500 recordings.
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Fillmore Slim's song writing talents, and musicianship have garnered several awards including being inducted into the Bay Area's West Coast Blues Hall of Fame in 2008, and the Lowell Fulson "Jus' Blues" Award in Memphis in 2011. Since his musical resurgence, Fillmore has found his largest fanbase to be in Europe, where he's played the Zurich Blues Festival and the Blues Estafette in Utrecht, Holland, and France, among others.
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Allentown Morning Call, Ed Condran, May 25, 2015. and "That's Why I Don't Sing the Blues" was the #1 U.S. release on the Blues Underground 2012 US Blues Rock Chart. Bobby continues to play about 135 shows a year and continues to place songs in TV and cable shows. In July/August 2015 "Love and Money" was in Billboard Top 10 Blues Albums, for 6 weeks, reaching #1 on August 8.
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At the 36th Blues Music Awards, Rayford was nominated in two categories; B.B. King Entertainer and Traditional Blues Male Artist. In 2014, Rayford performed at the Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland, Oregon. On May 19, 2015, Rayford released Southside. It featured a guest appearance by Bob Corritore on harmonica.
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Lewis recorded four solo tracks and another four sides with the Noah Lewis Jug Band, consisting of Lewis, Sleepy John Estes (guitar) and Yank Rachell (mandolin), in 1930. His songs "New, New Minglewood Blues", "Viola Lee Blues", and "Big Railroad Blues" were in the repertoire of the Grateful Dead.
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Johnny "Little Sonny" Jones (April 15, 1931 – December 17, 1989) was an American New Orleans blues singer and songwriter. Over his lengthy career, he worked with various blues musicians, notably Fats Domino. He is not to be confused with the blues musicians Little Sonny and Little Sonny Warner.
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Retrieved 2017-06-27."Orangeville’s blues and jazz fest acts revealed" Orangeville Banner. Retrieved 2017-06-27. When he was beginning his study of the instrument, he toured to many of the major blues cities in the US (e.g., Chicago), which exposed him to many regional blues playing styles.
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Aled Summerhill is a Rhondda born, Welsh rugby union player who plays for the Cardiff Blues as a centre, winger, or as a fullback. He was a Wales under-18 international. Summerhill made his debut for the Cardiff Blues in 2014 having previously played for the Cardiff Blues academy.
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In 1991, Elmore James' "The Sky Is Crying" was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in the "Classics of Blues Recordings" category. Record producer Bobby Robinson noted that the song is "a magnificent vehicle both for Elmore’s emotion-packed blues vocal and his ringing slide guitar".
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The second movement, entitled ‘In slow blues tempo,’ encapsulates the popular American idiom, a “rich and elegant blues.”Broder, p. 68 Barber uses “conventional harmonic progressions and melodic and rhythmic features associated with blues”Heyman, p. 236 to continue the overarching idea of the American idiom within classic form.
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He also performed on several compilation albums of North Mississippi hill country blues, as the music was recorded in the late 20th century. He appeared in the biopic documentary film, The Land Where The Blues Began.Johnson, Greg "Napolian Strickland" , Blues Notes, September 18, 2001. Accessed November 6, 2007.
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An acknowledged authority on blues and boogie woogie piano, Hall has contributed to a number of magazines and books and is the sleeve-note writer for the Yazoo Records piano blues series. He is also currently working on the piano sections of The Routledge Encyclopaedia of the Blues.
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The group began to receive wider recognition for their Hill country blues in the 1990s. They were included in Mississippi Blues in Memphis Vol. 1 in 1993, followed by inclusion in many other blues collections. They released their critically acclaimed album, Everybody Hollerin' Goat (1998) on Birdman Records.
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Gaining traction with this album, the CBKs were featured performers in the 2015 Chicago Blues Festival. The Cash Box Kings received three nominations for the 37th Blues Music Awards, held in May 2016. Their 2019 recording, Hail to the Kings!, was chosen as a 'Favorite Blues Album' by AllMusic.
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That same year Guyger's debut album, Last Train to Dover, was released. In 1999, Severn Records released Guyger's third album, Past Life Blues. In 2008, Guyger performed at the Lucerne Blues Festival. His most recent album, Radio Blues was released in March the same year to critical acclaim.
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The Big Book of Blues. p. 486. Other successful recordings followed, including "Special Delivery Blues" (with Louis Armstrong), "Bedroom Blues" (written by George and Hersal Thomas), and "I'm a Mighty Tight Woman". Hersal Thomas died of food poisoning in 1926, at age 16. Wallace moved to Detroit in 1929.
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Springing the Blues is an annual blues festival held in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. It is one of the largest and oldest blues festivals on the East Coast of the United States. It was first held in 1990 and has been held yearly on the first weekend of April.
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Robert Lee McCollum (November 30, 1909 - November 5, 1967) was an American blues musician who played and recorded under the pseudonyms Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk. He was the father of the blues musician Sam Carr. Nighthawk was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1983.
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Prior to joining the Downchild Blues Band, Vasey earned a Master's degree in Music from the University of Manitoba. She also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Art.Richard Flohill, Remembering Jane Vasey . Toronto Blues Society newsletter, October, 1986, as reprinted by the Toronto Blues Society, 2000; www.torontobluessociety.com.
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Ann Rabson (April 12, 1945 – January 30, 2013)[ Allmusic biography] was an American blues vocalist, pianist and guitar player. She was a solo recording artist signed to Alligator Records and was a member of Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women, an acoustic blues band that disbanded amicably in 2009.
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However, Mama's Blues, Ain't I a Woman and When a Woman Gets the Blues featured songs written by Tommy Johnson, Robert Johnson, Lottie Beaman, and Mattie Delaney. In 2010, Block released her autobiography in .pdf format and a limited print run titled When A Woman Gets The Blues.
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On June 24, 2019, head coach Craig Berube signed a three-year contract with the Blues. Berube had been the interim head coach since November 2018 and helped the Blues win the Stanley Cup in the previous season."Blues sign Berube to 3-year contract". nhl.com. June 24, 2019.
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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues. Penguin. p. 74. . He wrote or was the first to record several songs that became blues standards, including "All I Want Is a Spoonful" and "Salty Dog".Herzhaft, G., Harris, P., Haussler, J., and Mikofsky, A. J. (1997). Encyclopedia of the Blues.
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Gruenling, who plays both chromatic and diatonic harmonica, has been awarded the title of 'Best Modern Blues Harmonica Player' three years in a row by Real Blues magazine. In 2007, Adam Gussow described Gruenling as having "limitless potential". In 2019, he won a Blues Music Award for 'Instrumentalist - Harmonica'.
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Petersen, the program's host, is the owner of Canadian roots music label Stony Plain Records. A compilation album of live performances from the show, Saturday Night Blues: The Great Canadian Blues Project, Vol. 1, was released in 1991"Northern blues package a meaty meal". Edmonton Journal, December 8, 1991.
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Kubik, Gerhard (1999). Africa and the Blues. Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi. One important early mention of something closely resembling the blues comes from 1901, when an archaeologist in Mississippi described the songs of black workers which had lyrical themes and technical elements in common with the blues.
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Turner now performs solo as a singer/songwriter. He was the winner of the 6th annual Independent Music Awards Vox Pop vote for best Blues Album The Turner Diaries. His song "Mr. Blues" was nominated for the 8th annual Independent Music Awards for Blues Song of the Year.
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Cedric O. Burnside (born August 26, 1978)Jefferson interview. Issue 141, March 2004. Swedish original, via Google Translate is an American electric blues drummer, guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is the son of blues drummer Calvin Jackson and grandson of blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist R. L. Burnside.
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St Louis Blues – Community – Name the Mascot Louie is a blue polar bear and wears a Blues jersey with his name on the back, and the numbers "00".
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Calt, Stephen (2008). I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. p. 243. . "Parchman Farm Blues" was about the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
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Floyd Miles (April 13, 1943 – January 25, 2018) was an American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He released four solo albums from 1992 onwards.
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After 1970s blues and jazz music became more common and started to use with traditional folk music, Türküs, this has led to the Anatolian Blues genre in Turkey.
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The Blues wore number 6 (Musial's number) on their warmup jerseys that were autographed and then auctioned to benefit Cardinals Care and the St. Louis Blues 14 fund.
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Frank "Son" Seals (August 13, 1942 – December 20, 2004) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. In 2009, Seals was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
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Their self-titled debut album entered the US Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart at number 6 in February 2017, and reached number 1 on the iTunes Blues Chart.
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The follow-up Tenth album featured a boogie rock sound. The band's 1998 album Face Down in the Blues consisted, as its title implies, entirely of blues music.
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Paul Wayne Thorn (born July 13, 1964) is an American Southern rock, country, Americana, and blues singer-songwriter, whose style is a mix of blues, country, and rock.
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In 1987 Moanin' in the Moonlight was given a W.C. Handy Award in the "Vintage/Reissue Album (US)" category.Past Blues Music Awards . Blues Foundation. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
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The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 7 is an album by American blues pianist Memphis Slim which was recorded in 1967 and released on the Swedish Sonet label.
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The Alabama Blues Project (ABP) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve and promote the heritage of blues music in the US state of Alabama.
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The Danish Folk, Blues, and Ragtime Guitar Festival in Skarrild attracts many international entertainers, including Thomasina Winslow.Danish Folk, Blues, and Ragtime Guitar Festival website. Accessed September 14, 2010.
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Odetta Sings the Blues is an album by American folk singer Odetta, released in 1968. It is a reissue of the 1962 Riverside release Odetta and the Blues.
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Afterword, in Dixon, Robert M.W., and Godrich, John, Recording the Blues. Republished in Oliver, Paul, et al. (2001). Yonder Come the Blues. Cambridge University Press. pp. 335–336. .
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44 #3, page 42. Retrieved 17 February 2016 Their 2016 album, Promised Land Or Bust, was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the Rock Blues Album category.
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Alexis Korner, often called the father of British blues American blues became known in Britain from the 1930s onwards through a number of routes, including records brought to Britain, particularly by African-American GIs stationed there in the Second World War and Cold War, merchant seamen visiting ports such as London, Liverpool, Newcastle upon Tyne and Belfast,R. F. Schwartz, How Britain Got the Blues: the Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), , p. 28. and through a trickle of (illegal) imports. Blues music was relatively well known to British jazz musicians and fans, particularly in the works of figures like female singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith and the blues- influenced boogie-woogie of Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller.R. F. Schwartz, How Britain Got the Blues: the Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), p. 22.
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Michael Andrew Leadbitter (12 March 1942 - 16 November 1974) was a British writer, researcher, magazine editor, and a leading authority on blues music, who had an important role in the revival of interest in the blues, particularly in the UK in the 1960s and early 1970s. Mike Leadbitter was born in Simla, India, but grew up in Bexhill-on-Sea, England. He attended Bexhill Grammar School, and began buying rock and roll and rhythm and blues records and magazines in his mid teens, often on import from the US. Obituary and tribute by John Broven, 1974 In 1962, with his friend Simon Napier, he formed the Blues Appreciation Society, which the following year led to the publication of a magazine, Blues Unlimited, the first English-language blues periodical. Biographical note at Blues Hall of Fame He took on the role of reviews editor, and was particularly responsible for compiling discographies of major blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, and John Lee Hooker.
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Zucchero is credited as the "Father of Italian Blues", and is among the few European blues artists who still enjoy international success Since the 1980s there has been a resurgence of interest in the blues among a certain part of the African-American population, particularly around Jackson, Mississippi and other deep South regions. Often termed "soul blues" or "Southern soul", the music at the heart of this movement was given new life by the unexpected success of two particular recordings on the Jackson-based Malaco label: Z. Z. Hill's Down Home Blues (1982) and Little Milton's The Blues is Alright (1984). Contemporary African-American performers who work in this style of the blues include Bobby Rush, Denise LaSalle, Sir Charles Jones, Bettye LaVette, Marvin Sease, Peggy Scott-Adams, Mel Waiters, Clarence Carter, Dr. "Feelgood" Potts, O.B. Buchana, Ms. Jody, Shirley Brown, and dozens of others. During the 1980s blues also continued in both traditional and new forms.
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And yet another direction, the Blues was morphing into. Take the basic concept, move it into the "modern wild west" and what you get out of it is straightforward Texas Blues. It's all in there, endless highways, run-down trucker bars, oil, dirt, cowboy boots, stories about life on the move, all down in Texas, all just as sad as the original Blues (Lone Star Boogie, No Wheels Blues). The mixture of the basic Blues concept with more country and western styled instruments (slide guitars, harmonica) gave the Blues a rawer, yet again still instantly recognizable sound, which has played a major role in music ever since (up to Stevie Vaughan and ZZ Top).
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Music for the Motherless Child fuses Simpson's folk blues-style guitar work with Man's exotica pipa playing, creating what Tim Sheridan of AllMusic describes as "a most unusual sonic world, a place where East meets West and the blues reign supreme." With the exception of "A-Minor Blues", which was composed by Simpson, the material on the album is traditional, and mainly draws from American and European folk music. "A-Minor Blues" takes influence from Appalachian banjo styles and the unsettling E minor playing of Delta blues musician Skip James. Man's pipa work on the track is said to be even more blues-styled than Simpson's guitar work, especially on her tremolo passages.
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D.C. Minner (January 28, 1935 - May 6, 2008) was an American blues musician, teacher, and philosopher who was known for sharing music with children and adults alike throughout Oklahoma and beyond. Born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma, he performed with O. V. Wright, Freddie King, Chuck Berry, Eddie Floyd and Bo Diddley, and was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 1999. He owned the 'Down Home Blues Club' in Rentiesville, where he and his wife Selby Minner held a long-running annual blues festival, the 'Dusk 'til Dawn Blues Festival'. The couple had won an international KBA from the Blues Foundation in Memphis for their BITS (Blues in the Schools) work with children.
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Jimmy "Duck" Holmes (born July 28, 1947) is an American blues musician and proprietor of the Blue Front Cafe on the Mississippi Blues Trail, the oldest surviving juke joint in Mississippi. Holmes is known as the last of the Bentonia bluesmen, as he is the last blues musician to play the Bentonia School. Like Skip James and Jack Owens and other blues musicians from Bentonia, Mississippi, Holmes learned to play the blues from Henry Stuckey, the originator of the Bentonia blues. Holmes' music is based in the Bentonia tuning utilizing open E-minor, open D-minor and a down tuned variant, and is noted for its haunting, ethereal, rhythmic and hypnotic qualities.
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The Ottawa Blues Society is an organization of volunteers in Ottawa, Ontario dedicated to fostering the "appreciation, promotion, preservation and enjoyment of the blues in all of its forms". The Society sponsors an annual Blues Heart Award, awarded "to an individual or organization that has made an outstanding contribution to fostering appreciation and awareness of blues music." Past award recipients have included Mark Monahan (1999), Executive Director of the Ottawa Bluesfest, broadcaster and music historian Brian Murphy (2000), blues performer and teacher Maria Hawkins (2005) and blues performer Tony D.Not to be confused with the late hip hop artist, Tony D. (2007). It also publishes a newsletter which has been cited for its music reviews in particular.
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The duo performed the song "Woman Be Wise" on Late Night with David Letterman on April 27, 1982, with Dr. John accompanying on piano, in support of her album "Sippie". Wallace contributed to Louis Armstrong's album Louis Armstrong and the Blues Singers (1966), singing "A Jealous Woman Like Me", "Special Delivery Blues", "Jack o'Diamond Blues", "The Mail Train Blues" and "I Feel Good". She and Spivey recorded an album of blues standards, Sippie Wallace and Victoria Spivey, released in 1970 by Spivey's label, Spivey Records. In 1981, Wallace recorded the album Sippie for Atlantic Records, which earned her a 1983 Grammy nomination and won the 1982 W. C. Handy Award for Best Blues Album of the Year.
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Into the Blues debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard Blues chart, remaining at that position for 12 consecutive weeks and was nominated at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Blues Album. The album also reached number 2 on the iTunes Blues Chart. Armatrading is the first female UK artist to debut at number 1 on the Billboards Blues chart and the first female UK artist to be nominated for a Grammy in the Blues category. Record Collector magazine called the album "the most complete portrait yet of an often underrated singer- songwriter", noted that "half the album drips with barroom sleaze and blistering guitar breaks" and praised the album's "subtlety".
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Paul Nelson is an American modern blues/rock guitarist, producer, and songwriter. He has played and or recorded alongside artists such as Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, and members of the Allman Brothers Band. He was the hand picked guitarist to join Johnny Winter's band in 2010, performing on and producing several of Winter's albums, including the Grammy-nominated I'm a Blues Man, Roots, and Step Back which won Nelson a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album, debuted at #1 on the Billboard chart for Blues Albums, and Independent Albums, and debuted at #16 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, marking the highest spot in Winter's career. Nelson is also a Blues Music Award recipient for Best Rock Blues Album.
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Todd Sharpville in Wolfsburg, Germany, 2004 Sharpville first came to public prominence with his 1994 debut blues album release, Touch of Your Love (Red Lightnin'). The album achieved critical acclaim, winning "Best Album" in 1994 in the British Blues Connection awards (Britain's equivalent to the W.C. Handy Awards). At this time, Sharpville was putting together European backing bands for visiting American blues artists (such as Hubert Sumlin, Ike Turner, Chuck Berry and Byther Smith). He won the British Blues Connection "Best UK Guitarist" award in 1995 (beating fellow nominees Eric Clapton and Gary Moore according to the April 1995 edition of British Blues Connection's Blueprint magazine) and became a mainstay on the European blues circuit as a solo artist.
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His first job was as a rhythm guitarist at The Speakeasy, a blues club in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition to playing in the Boston blues scene, Earl traveled twice by Greyhound Bus to Chicago, where he was introduced to the Chicago blues scene by Koko Taylor. Later he traveled to New Orleans and Austin, Texas, where he spent time with Kim Wilson, Jimmie Vaughan and The Fabulous Thunderbirds. In 1979 he joined the band Roomful of Blues as lead guitarist. He began performing solo in 1986, in addition to playing with Roomful of Blues, and he released his first solo album on the Black Top Records label with a quartet that focused on blues instrumentals.
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By the end of the 1940s, however, pure blues was only a minor part of popular music, having been subsumed by offshoots like rhythm & blues and the nascent rock and roll style. Some styles of electric, piano-driven blues, like boogie-woogie, retained a large audience. A bluesy style of gospel also became popular in mainstream America in the 1950s, led by singer Mahalia Jackson.Werner. The blues genre experienced major revivals in the 1950s with Chicago blues musicians such as Muddy Waters and Little Walter, as well as in the 1960s in the British Invasion and American folk music revival when country blues musicians like Mississippi John Hurt and Reverend Gary Davis were rediscovered.
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Dunne played himself in both of the two Blues Brothers films, with a fictional storyline: Murphy "Murph" Dunne was an original member of the Blues Brothers until "Joliet" Jake went to prison in the 1970s. He then started his own band called "Murph and the MagicTones" along with four other ex-Blues Brothers Band members; Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, Willie "Too Big" Hall and Tom "Bones" Malone. While performing a regular set at the Armada Room in a Chicago area Holiday Inn, Jake and Elwood Blues again approached the band to reform the Blues Brothers band. After a brief tour, Murph was sent to prison with the rest of the Blues Brothers Band.
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Robert "Bilbo" Walker Jr. (February 19, 1937 – November 29, 2017) was an American blues musician who is known in the blues music world due to his "rock 'n' roll showmanship" and "flamboyant Chuck Berry imitations."The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings by Tony Russell and Chris Smith, et al. pg. 676.
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His best-known recording, a version of the train blues standard "Sunnyland Blues", released in 1931, is more notable for the warmth and poignancy of his singing than for his piano playing.Barlow, William (1989). "Looking Up at Down": The Emergence of Blues Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. pp. 257–258. .
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Jabo Williams (c. 1895 - 1953 or 1954) was an American boogie-woogie and blues pianist and songwriter. His total recorded output was a mere eight sides, which included his two best-known "stunningly primitive" songs, "Pratt City Blues" and "Jab's Blues" (1932). Details of his life outside of music are scanty.
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The Blues is a 2003 documentary film series produced by Martin Scorsese, dedicated to the history of blues music. In each of the seven episodes, a different director explores a stage in the development of the blues. The series originally aired on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States.
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Wiggins, in common with some other blues musicians, tended to recycle some of his song lyrics, with the lines "I wake up every morning..." and "I woke up this morning...", identified in three of his songs - "Evil Woman Blues" and "Forty- Four Blues", and the latter deviation in "Frisco Bound".
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McIlraith (2005), p. 186. The Blues hit back to lead 21–10 with ten minutes to go. The Crusaders managed another converted try, but it was not enough, and the Blues won 21–17. The Crusaders' 2004 season began with two losses: first to the Waratahs, then to the Blues.
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Lowell Fulson (March 31, 1921March 7, 1999) was an American blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. He also recorded for contractual reasons as Lowell Fullsom and Lowell Fulsom. After T-Bone Walker, he was the most important figure in West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Samuel Blythe Price (October 6, 1908 - April 14, 1992) was an American jazz, boogie-woogie and jump blues pianist and bandleader. Price's playing is dark, mellow, and relaxed rather than percussive, and he was a specialist at creating the appropriate mood and swing for blues and rhythm and blues recordings.
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Bentonia is a town in Yazoo County, Mississippi. The population was 440 at the 2010 census. Some blues scholars maintain that there is a "Bentonia School" of blues singing and guitar-playing, and that "Bentonia-style" is a distinct style of delta blues, though Bentonia lies outside the Mississippi Delta proper.
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Blues rock remains popular, with Eric Clapton, ZZ Top, and George Thorogood seeing the greatest success. Freddie King started moving from straight blues to blues rock since the genre was now mostly popular among white audiences. Stress from nonstop touring resulted in his death at the age of 42 in 1976.
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In 1887, Pechiney moved to the newly formed Cleveland Blues of the American Association. On April 16, 1887, he was the Blues' Opening Day starting pitcher for the first season in the team's history, pitching against his former Cincinnati team. The Blues lost the game by a score of 16–6.
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"Avellaneda Blues" is a song by the Argentine blues rock band Manal. It is the fifth song of their 1970 self-titled album. It is an original blues song sung in Spanish. The work evokes images of a melancholic dawn in Avellaneda, a port and industrial suburb of Buenos Aires.
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In October 1926, Perrin joined the Hartford Blues of the National Football League. He appeared in six games for the Blues during the 1926 NFL season playing at the fullback and quarterback positions. He also served as a place-kicker for the Blues, kicking three extra points and one field goal.
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Waterfront Blues Festival south main stage The Waterfront Blues Festival is an annual event in Portland, Oregon, United States featuring four days of performances by blues musicians. The festival started in 1988 and takes place in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, along the west bank of the Willamette River in downtown Portland.
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"32-20 Blues" is a blues song by Delta blues musician Robert Johnson. It was recorded during his second recording session in San Antonio, Texas, United States, on November 26, 1936. The title refers to .32-20 Winchester ammunition, which could be used in handguns as well as smaller rifles.
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Blues at Sunset is a Blues album by Albert King, recorded live at Wattstax (August 20, 1972) and at the Montreux Jazz Festival (July 1, 1973), and released in 1993. Material recorded at the 1973 Montreux festival had previously been released in his albums Montreux Festival and Blues At Sunrise.
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Country blues performers often improvised, either without accompaniment or with only a banjo or guitar. Regional styles of country blues varied widely in the early 20th century. The (Mississippi) Delta blues was a rootsy sparse style with passionate vocals accompanied by slide guitar. The little-recorded Robert JohnsonClarke, p. 141.
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Richard "Hock" Walsh (December 19, 1948 – December 31, 1999) was one of the first professional blues singers in Canada. He is particularly notable as the co-founder of the Downchild Blues BandCraig Harris, [ Biography of The Downchild Blues Band]; AllMusic. and was the original singer of that band's best-known songs.
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Most mothers who develop postpartum blues experience complete resolution of symptoms by two weeks. However, a number of prospective studies have identified more severe postpartum blues as an independent risk factor for developing subsequent postpartum depression. More research is necessary to fully elucidate the association between postpartum blues and postpartum depression.
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However, Baker cites a turnaround containing "How Dry I Am" as the "absolutely most commonly used blues turnaround". Fischer describes the turnaround as the last two measures of the blues form, or I7 and V7, with variations including I7–IV7–I7–V7.Fischer, Peter (2000). Blues Guitar Rules, p.31. .
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Aaron Moreland was born December 16, 1974. He played in a number of garage bands while growing up and was influenced by punk, blues, and rock music. He changed course and focused on blues music after hearing "Death Letter Blues" by Son House. Dustin Arbuckle was born December 25, 1981.
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The biggest blues festival in Croatia, Kastav Blues Festival, is established in honour of 'Philadelphia' Jerry Ricks. It's being held from 2008 and is still ongoing. Every year in the first week of August, eminent names of national, european and global blues scene come to Kastav, Croatia to honour Jerry's inheritance.
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"King" Solomon Hicks (born February 8, 1995) is an American guitarist, blues, jazz singer, and composer. His style of music ranges from jazz, blues, classical, gospel, R&B;, funk, Afro-Cuban, and classic rock. Hicks has been a blues guitarist since he was 13. He plays a Benedetto GA35 guitar.
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He supports Jazzmobile and is a member of the Blues Foundation in Memphis, Tennessee. Hicks opened for Ringo Starr and Jeff Beck at the Holland International Blues Festival in June 2018 in Blues Village Grolloo, the Netherlands. In 2018 he toured with Beth Hart, performing in Las Vegas and New Orleans.
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Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins (July 7, 1913 – March 21, 2011) was an American blues pianist. He played with some of the most influential blues and rock-and- roll performers of his time and received numerous honors, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Blues Hall of Fame.
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A blues in B dedicated to the Five Spot Café, and appears on Misterioso, Monk's Dream, and Live at the It Club. It's also known as "Five Spot Blues".
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The Blues Tonight, and covered blues songs from the 1940s and '50s in Low Down and Tore Up. Briefly in 2013, he was the guitarist for Bob Dylan's tour.
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