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1920 1984 Louisiana West Coast blues [261] Earring George Mayweather: 1928 1995 Alabama Chicago blues [262] Delbert McClinton: 1940 Texas Electric blues [263] Jimmy McCracklin: 1921 2012 Texas West Coast blues [264] Brownie McGhee: 1915 1996 Tennessee Piedmont blues [265] Memphis Slim: 1915 1988 Tennessee Urban blues [266] Big Maceo ...
Born Charlie Hicks in Lithonia, Georgia, he was an acoustic country and Piedmont blues guitarist and vocalist. He was the older brother of Robert "Barbecue Bob" Hicks, with whom he performed from the 1920s until Robert's early death in 1931. Charley Lincoln continued to perform until the mid-1950s.
Irish blues musicians by instrument (1 C)-Blues musicians from Northern Ireland (1 C, 1 P) G. Irish blues guitarists (5 P) S. Irish blues singers (1 C, 2 P)
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, [36] was the first African-American to record a blues in 1920; her "Crazy Blues" sold over 75,000 copies in its first month. [37]
Vincent Lopez's dance band makes first live broadcast of a performance on the radio. [34] Thomas A. Dorsey moves to Chicago for the second time in his life, this time hoping to make his way in the burgeoning blues and jazz scenes; he is electrified by the singing of W. M. Nix, thus beginning his career as a pioneering gospel singer. [35]
Blues and gospel singer, guitarist, and songwriter, one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s, who has been called the "Father of the Texas Blues". [65] Herman E. Johnson (August 18, 1909 – February 2, 1975). Blues singer and guitarist. [66] Lonnie Johnson (February 8, 1899 [disputed, possibly 1889 or 1894] – June 16, 1970).
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.
A performance at the Jazz in Duketown festival in 2019, located at 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands. Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music.