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The Memphis blues is a style of blues music created from the 1910s to the 1930s by musicians in the Memphis area, such as Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis and Memphis Minnie. The style was popular in vaudeville and medicine shows and was associated with Beale Street , the main entertainment area in Memphis.
The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum operated by the Blues Foundation at 421 S. Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee.Initially, the "Blues Hall of Fame" was not a physical building, but a listing of people who have significantly contributed to blues music.
Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately 1.8 miles (2.9 km). It is a significant location in the city's history, as well as in the history of blues music.
A trumpet player and composer, W.C. Handy — who titled his 1941 autobiography "Father of the Blues" — was born in Florence, Alabama, but became famous after relocating to Memphis in 1909 and ...
He also wrote "The Memphis Blues". Memphis blues is a regional style created by area musicians such as Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis, Memphis Minnie, and Memphis Jug Band [12] in the 1910s-1930s, with stylistic origins in Country blues and Delta blues. [13] Memphis was a center of blues music for much of the 20th century.
Southern Avenue is an American five- to six-member blues and soul blues band from Memphis, Tennessee, United States.Formed in 2015, they took their name from a street in Memphis running from the easternmost part of the city limits to "Soulsville", which was the original home of Stax Records.
Subtitled "Mr. Crump", "The Memphis Blues" is said to be based on a campaign song written by Handy for Edward Crump, a mayoral candidate in Memphis, Tennessee. [4] Handy claimed credit for writing "Mr. Crump", but Memphis musicians say it was written by Handy's clarinetist, Paul Wyer. [5]
Tennessee Piedmont blues [265] Memphis Slim: 1915 1988 Tennessee Urban blues [266] Big Maceo Merriweather: 1905 1953 Georgia Barrelhouse blues [267] Amos Milburn: 1927 1980 Texas Urban blues [268] Luke "Long Gone" Miles: 1925 1987 Louisiana Texas blues [269] Roy Milton: 1907 1983 Oklahoma Jump blues [270] Gatemouth Moore: 1913 2004 Kansas Urban ...