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In music, an eight-bar blues is a common blues chord progression. Music writers have described it as "the second most common blues form" [1] being "common to folk, rock, and jazz forms of the blues". [2] It is often notated in 4 4 or 12 8 time with eight bars to the verse.
Swamp blues has a laid-back, slow tempo, and generally is a more rhythmic variation of Louisiana blues, incorporating influences from New Orleans blues, zydeco, soul music and Cajun music. [3] It is characterized by simple but effective guitar work and is influenced by the boogie patterns used on Jimmy Reed records and the work of Lightnin ...
B.B. King and Muddy Waters, with the most standards on the charts at five each, [8] used electric blues-ensemble arrangements. Music journalist Richie Unterberger commented on the adaptability of blues: "From its inception, the blues has always responded to developments in popular music as a whole: the use of guitar and piano in American folk ...
"Driftin' Blues" or "Drifting Blues" is a blues standard, recorded by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers in 1945. The song is a slow blues and features Charles Brown's smooth, soulful vocals and piano. It was one of the biggest blues hits of the 1940s and "helped define the burgeoning postwar West Coast blues style". [1] "Driftin' Blues" has been ...
Hill country blues (also known as North Mississippi hill country blues or North Mississippi blues) is a regional style of country blues.It is characterized by a strong emphasis on rhythm and percussion, steady guitar riffs, few chord changes, unconventional song structures, and heavy emphasis on the "groove", which has been characterized as the "hypnotic boogie".
Riff-driven songs are largely a product of jazz, blues, and post-blues era music (rock and pop). [10] The musical goal of riff-driven songs is akin to the classical continuo effect, but raised to much higher importance (in fact, the repeated riff is used to anchor the song in the ears of the listener). The riff/continuo is brought to the ...
Bob Brozman – (March 8, 1954 – April 23, 2013) Brozman was a slide guitarist who performs in various blues music mediums, including electric blues, country blues and some traditional folk music. He recorded at least fifteen albums for labels including Kicking Mule , and has worked with a variety of musicians performing not just in the blues ...
The song is a moderately slow-tempo twelve-bar blues, notated in 4 4 or common time in the key of B. [4] [5] Oden, as St. Louis Jimmy, recorded it in Chicago on November 11, 1941. It was released as a single by Bluebird Records and featured Oden's vocal with accompaniment by Roosevelt Sykes on piano and Alfred Elkins on "imitation" bass. [6]