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All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6. Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8. Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.
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List of Pre-1940 blues musicians, showing name, birth and death year, origin, primary style, and references; Name Birth year Death year Origin Primary style Ref(s) Mozelle Alderson: 1904 1994 Ohio Country blues [4] Alger "Texas" Alexander: 1900 1954 Texas Country blues [5] Ora Alexander: c.1909: Unknown: Alabama Classic female blues [6] Albert ...
List of albums with the highest first-week consumption (sales + streaming + track equivalent), as of December 2021 in the United States Number Album Artist 1st-week consumption 1st-week position Refs 1 Still Over It: Summer Walker: 166,000 1 [155] 2 Planet Her: Doja Cat: 109,000 2 [156] 3 An Evening with Silk Sonic: Silk Sonic: 104,000 2 [157 ...
Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s. An amalgam of traditional folk blues and urban theater music, the style is also known as vaudeville blues . Classic blues were performed by female singers accompanied by pianists or small jazz ensembles and were the first blues to be recorded.
She has also issued 58 singles, one of which, "The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry)," reached number 1 on the Rhythm and Blues Records chart in 1955. As a teenager in San Francisco, California in the early 1950s, James formed a singing trio, which attracted the attention of Johnny Otis , who helped her sign a recording contract with Modern ...
List of singles as lead artist, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album name Single Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album US [43] US R&B /HH [44] US Adult R&B [62] "Always" (with Waze & Odyssey, George Michael and Tommy Theo) 2020 — — — Non-album single "Good Morning Gorgeous" 2021 83 33 1
For example, Robert Johnson and Tampa Red, who were the first to record the most blues standards on the list at four each, performed them as solo or duo acoustic performances. B.B. King and Muddy Waters, with the most standards on the charts at five each, [8] used electric blues-ensemble arrangements.