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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.
"Driftin' Blues" or "Drifting Blues" is a blues standard, recorded by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers in 1945. The song is a slow blues and features Charles Brown 's smooth, soulful vocals and piano. It was one of the biggest blues hits of the 1940s and "helped define the burgeoning postwar West Coast blues style". [ 1 ] "
Blues legend B.B. King with his guitar, "Lucille" Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
The original album was released on 9 March 1993 by Polydor Records, and a Concert Home Video was released shortly after. On 4 March 2003, a deluxe two-disc edition was released, which features the entire concert. Also, in November 1999, a second video of the concert titled The Other Side of Red Rocks was released. It contained footage of the ...
"Driftwood" is a 1978 single by the English progressive rock band the Moody Blues. It was the second single released from the album Octave , after " Steppin' in a Slide Zone ". Written by Justin Hayward , "Driftwood" is a slow love ballad, in a similar manner to " Nights in White Satin " and " Never Comes the Day ."
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey is a 2003 box set released on Hip-O Records. It is the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese PBS documentary series The Blues . [ 2 ] The box set attempts to present a history of the blues from the dawning of recorded music to the present day.
In addition to tracks by the Blues Brothers Band performed with guest artists such as Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Dr. John, Lonnie Brooks, Junior Wells, Eddie Floyd and Wilson Pickett, there are songs by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Blues Traveler as well as an all-star blues supergroup, the Louisiana Gator Boys, featuring B.B. King ...
Moody Blues biographer Marc Cushman felt that Moraz' synthesized bass line was the most effective aspect of the song, and that the synthesized strings were also effective. [3] However, he noted that listeners were split on flute-like trills, with some listeners liking them but others finding them "unnecessary and unwelcome". [ 3 ]