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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 4 Jimmy Witherspoon, 1974 (from List of blues musicians ) Image 5 Memphis Minnie, 1930 (from List of blues musicians )
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His singing, guitar playing and songwriting on his landmark 1936 and 1937 recordings has influenced later generations of musicians.
This Mohawk Valley band is out to prove young musicians can sing the blues, and bolster the genre's future. Young musicians taking blues music world by storm: Where to see them perform Skip to ...
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Guitarist Buddy Guy performing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2006. Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone.
The artists of the 1970s produced so many chart-topping hits we compiled a list. It includes bands and singers such as Stevie Wonder, ABBA, and Redbone.
"Black Bayou," 69-year old Louisiana bluesman Robert Finley's latest album from Dan Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound unifies blues, soul, timeless influences