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List of Pre-1940 blues musicians, showing name, birth and death year, origin, primary style, and references; Name Birth year Death year Origin Primary style Ref(s) Mozelle Alderson: 1904 1994 Ohio Country blues [4] Alger "Texas" Alexander: 1900 1954 Texas Country blues [5] Ora Alexander: c.1909: Unknown: Alabama Classic female blues [6] Albert ...
Little is known about the exact origin of the music now known as the blues. [1] No specific year can be cited as its origin, largely because the style evolved over a long period but blues is inarguably a Black American art form as it is noted "it is impossible to say exactly how old blues is - certainly no older than the presence of Negroes in the United States.
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.
The first original blues rock artists such as Cream, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Canned Heat actually borrowed the idea of combining an instrumental combo with loud amplification from rock and roll, and also attempted to play long, involved improvisations which were commonplace on jazz records and live blues shows.
Early country blues harmonica player from Tennessee. [5] First performer on the Grand Ole Opry [6] and known as 'the Harmonica Wizard', [7] Bailey was an Opry stalwart for 14 years. [8] Etta Baker (March 31, 1913, Caldwell County, North Carolina – September 23, 2006). Guitarist, banjo player and singer who performed Piedmont blues.
Although very few women were recorded playing Delta blues and other rural or folk-style blues, many performers did not get professionally recorded. Geeshie Wiley was a blues singer and guitar player who recorded six songs for Paramount Records that were issued on three records in April 1930.
Pianist who played with some of the most influential blues and rock and roll performers in American history. [45] Robert Petway (possibly October 18, 1907 – date of death unknown). Singer and guitarist who recorded only 16 songs, but was an influence on many notable blues and rock musicians. [46]
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