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Blues standards come from different eras and styles, such as ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and other early acoustic styles, and urban blues from Chicago and the West Coast. [3] Many blues songs were developed in American folk music traditions and individual songwriters are sometimes unidentified. [1] Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft noted:
Electric blues [371] Guitar Slim Jr. 1951 Louisiana Electric blues [372] Sandra Hall: 1951 Georgia Electric blues* [373] Larry Hamilton: 1951 2011 Texas Electric blues [374] Odessa Harris: 1936 2003 Arkansas Electric blues* [226] Alvin Youngblood Hart: 1963 California Acoustic blues* [365] Ted Hawkins: 1936 1995 Mississippi Acoustic blues [375 ...
2000: National Finger Style Guitar Championship – Mary Flower – Third place (Finalist) [13] 1987: Best Folkie in Denver from the Best of Westword (three time winner) [14] Nominated. Independent Music Awards – Acoustic Song of the Year (2009) – Slow Lane to Glory from "Bridges" [15] Blues Music Award nominee for Acoustic Artist of The ...
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.
Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is one of the earliest forms of blues music. The mainly solo vocal with acoustic fingerstyle guitar accompaniment developed in the rural Southern United States in the early 20th century. [1] It stands in contrast primarily to the urban blues style, especially in ...
In 1984, Smither's belated third album, It Ain't Easy was released on Adelphi Records, [1] which the Boston Phoenix acoustic music critic Jon Herman called "the naked and sophisticated blues album that Eric von Schmidt, Rolf Cahn, Spider John Koerner, and other white revivalists groped for more than 20 years ago, at the dawn of the folk revival."
In 2020, Margolin was presented with a Blues Music Award for 'Acoustic Album of the Year' for This Guitar and Tonight. [8] Bob Margolin is the Musical Director for The Pinetop Perkins Workshop Experience [9] - an annual blues music educational workshop held in Clarksdale, Mississippi, organized by The Pinetop Perkins Foundation. Professional ...
"Cross Road Blues" (commonly known as "Crossroads") is a song written by the American blues artist Robert Johnson. He performed it solo with his vocal and acoustic slide guitar in the Delta blues style.