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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 song is a moderately slow-tempo twelve-bar blues, notated in 4 4 or common time in the key of B. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Oden, as St. Louis Jimmy, recorded it in Chicago on November 11, 1941. It was released as a single by Bluebird Records and featured Oden's vocal with accompaniment by Roosevelt Sykes on piano and Alfred Elkins on "imitation" bass.
The Chicago Tribune wrote: "Lively Texas jump blues (fleshed out by a hot big-band-styled horn section and Brown's delightfully idiosyncratic guitar and violin work) is at the heart of the album, but the always eclectic Brown mixes it up with some sweet slow blues, a bit of funk, even a country ballad."
Allmusic's Jason Ankeny said: "Steig creates Technicolor grooves that float like butterflies and sting like bees.His music doesn't so much fuse jazz and rock as it approaches each side from the perspective of the other, exploring their respective concepts and executions to arrive at a sound all its own.
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 ]
It is a twelve-bar blues in 6 8; the chord sequence is that of a basic blues and made up entirely of seventh chords, with a ♭ VI in the turnaround instead of just the usual V chord. In the composition's original key of G this chord is an E ♭ 7. "All Blues" is an example of modal blues in G Mixolydian. [2] [clarification needed]
"Texas Flood" is a slow-tempo twelve-bar blues notated in 12/8 time in the key of A flat. Davis wrote it in California in 1955 and the song is credited to Davis and Duke Records arranger/trumpeter Joseph Scott. [2] Nominally about a flood in Texas, Davis used it as a metaphor for his relationship problems:
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.