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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.
The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album was awarded from 1988 to 2011 and from 2017 onwards. Until 1992 the award was known as Best Contemporary Blues Performance and in 1989 was awarded to a song rather than to an album. The award was discontinued after the 2011 Grammy season in a major overhaul of Grammy categories.
Walter Trout and his band recorded Blues for the Modern Daze at Entourage Studios in North Hollywood, Los Angeles in October 2011. [1] The album was first revealed in January 2012 as part of an announcement on Trout's official website of the final leg of the tour in promotion of 2010's Common Ground, in which it was teased that attendees at upcoming shows would be treated to a "Preview of the ...
Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li (pictured in 2011) was a guest musician on The Big Dream, performing lead vocals on "I'm Waiting Here".. The Big Dream was released on July 10, 2013 on Beatink Records in Japan, [7] July 15 on Sunday Best in Europe and on INGRID in Sweden, [8] and July 16 on Sacred Bones Records in the United States. [5]
Now an L.A. resident, the Mississippi-born blues prodigy channels Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters and more as he prepares for a new album and a powerful show at the City National Grove of Anaheim.
It won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album in 2003, [2] [3] and also won a W. C. Handy Award as the Soul/Blues Album of the Year from the Blues Foundation in 2004. [ citation needed ] Professional ratings
Common Ground was Trout's fourth album to reach the top ten of the US Billboard Blues Albums chart, peaking at number 6. [5] In the UK, the album reached number 13 on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart, number 20 on the UK Independent Albums Chart, and number 2 on the UK Independent Album Breakers Chart. [6]
Crazy Clown Time has been described by Lynch as "a collection of dark songs" in the style of "modern blues". [1] The album incorporates elements of avant-garde music, [4] [5] including the use of feedback; noise; dissonance; [6] and soundscapes which feature "dense layers of texture".