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Pages in category "Blues instruments" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Archtop guitar; B.
Nearly one half of the blues standards listed were first recorded in the pre-World War II acoustic blues era, before music publications tracked the sales of blues records. [7] Many popular renditions, as reflected in the record charts, are more modern versions featuring electric instruments.
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.
Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues. It originated in the Mississippi Delta and is regarded as a regional variant of country blues. Guitar and harmonica are its dominant instruments; slide guitar is a hallmark of the style. Vocal styles in Delta blues range from introspective and soulful to passionate and fiery.
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 ]
T-Bone Walker at American Folk Blues Festival, Hamburg, 1972 (from List of blues musicians) Image 57 Eric Clapton, 2006 (from List of blues musicians ) Image 58 An 1890s photo of the tourist steamer Okahumke'e on the Ocklawaha River , with black guitarists on board (from Origins of the blues )
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.
Electric blues musician, one of a very small number of blues musicians to play the mandolin. [23] Louise Johnson. Singer and pianist. [24] Robert Johnson (May 8, 1911, Hazlehurst, Mississippi – August 16, 1938). Singer-songwriter and guitarist, recognized since the 1960s as a master of Delta blues and an important influence on many rock ...