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Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. [1] They come from different eras and include styles such as ragtime - vaudeville , Delta and country blues , and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast . [ 2 ]
Electric blues is 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.
John Mooney (born April 3, 1955) is an American blues guitarist and singer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. [1] He has developed a unique music style by combining Delta blues [2] with the funky second line beat of New Orleans. [1]
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B.B. King's Bluesville is a Sirius XM Radio channel devoted to blues music. It plays a mix of traditional blues, modern blues, rockin' blues and soul or "finger-poppin '" blues. Bill Wax was the original program director for the channel until his departure from SiriusXM in June 2013. While playing music in the fictional town of Bluesville, Wax ...
The historian Sylviane Diouf and ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik identify Islamic music as an influence on blues music. [11] [12] Diouf notes a striking resemblance between the Islamic call to prayer (originating from Bilal ibn Rabah, a famous Abyssinian African Muslim in the early 7th century) and 19th-century field holler music, noting that both have similar lyrics praising God, melody, note ...
Eddie James Lusk, Jr. [1] known professionally as Professor Eddie Lusk (September 21, 1948 – August 26, 1992) [2] was an American Chicago blues musician. [3] An ordained minister, Lusk carved out a successful career in the blues and variously worked with Luther Allison, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Johnson, Koko Taylor, Phil Guy, Jimmy Dawkins, Sunnyland Slim, Michael Coleman, Fenton Robinson, Syl ...