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Urban blues [266] Big Maceo Merriweather: 1905 1953 Georgia Barrelhouse blues [267] Amos Milburn: 1927 1980 Texas Urban blues [268] Luke "Long Gone" Miles: 1925 1987 Louisiana Texas blues [269] Roy Milton: 1907 1983 Oklahoma Jump blues [270] Gatemouth Moore: 1913 2004 Kansas Urban blues [271] Johnny B. Moore: 1950 Mississippi Chicago blues [272 ...
Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music—a song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make humorous, [1] sexual innuendos. This trope goes back to early dirty blues recordings, enjoyed huge commercial success in the 1920s and 1930s, [ 1 ] and is used from time to time in modern American blues and blues rock .
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.
In the early 1920s, Bell worked in agriculture and performed as a blues musician, often with his friend Pillie Bolling. He performed many times in Philadelphia and Ohio . His debut recording, of his own songs "Mamlish Blues" and "The Hambone Blues," was part of a four-song session for Paramount Records in Chicago in 1927. [ 1 ]
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.
Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...
"It's Been So Long", fan song created by The Living Tombstone based on Five Nights at Freddy's "The Song is You"/"It's Been So Long", single by Trudy Richards with Pete Rugolo Albums
"Crawling King Snake" (alternatively "Crawlin' King Snake" or "Crawling/Crawlin' Kingsnake") is a blues song that has been recorded by numerous blues and other artists. It is believed to have originated as a Delta blues in the 1920s [ 1 ] and be related to earlier songs, such as "Black Snake Blues" by Victoria Spivey [ 2 ] and "Black Snake Moan ...