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Many blues songs were developed in American folk music traditions and individual songwriters are sometimes unidentified. [1] Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft noted: In the case of very old blues songs, there is the constant recourse to oral tradition that conveyed the tune and even the song itself while at the same time evolving for several decades.
(The Memphis Jug Band recorded Jackson's hit song "Kansas City Blues" twice and performed it on the television program, Blues Street, [9] in 1958.) This is the basic jug band sound that was adopted by other Memphis-area groups, like Gus Cannon 's Jug Stompers, Jed Davenport's Beale Street Jug Band and Jack Kelly's South Memphis Jug Band.
The song was co-written by singer David Coverdale and guitarist Micky Moody, who was the only original member, besides Coverdale, left in the band.Moody was possibly the one that influenced the bluesy style of "Slow An' Easy"; most of the material on Slide It In took influence from contemporary glam metal in terms of sound, in contrast to the earlier, blues rock based albums of the band.
"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". [1] "Driftin' Blues" has been ...
"Slow and Easy" is a song performed by American rhythm and blues band Zapp (then credited as Zapp & Roger), issued as the second and final single from their first greatest hits album All the Greatest Hits. It was written by Roger Troutman, Larry Troutman and Shirley Murdock; and was produced by Roger. [4]
A slow minor-key blues, it is performed in the West Coast blues-style. [2] Brown, on vocal and piano, is backed by a small combo with the addition of Maxwell Davis on saxophone. [3] "Black Night" was Brown's second single to reach number one on Billboard's R&B chart. [4] It remained at the top position for 14 weeks, longer than any other single ...
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. It has its roots in African-American dance , which itself is rooted in sub-Saharan African music traditions and the historical dances brought to the United States by European ...
The Very Best of the Black Sorrows is the second greatest hits album by Australian rock and blues band The Black Sorrows. The album includes 38 songs from the band's entire career and includes singles and album tracks, all of which are digitally remastered. [1] The album was released in Australia in 1997 and internationally on 25 August 1998. [2]