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  2. Atlanta blues - Wikipedia

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    Atlanta blues refers to the local blues scene in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, which had its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s.According to AllMusic,"The Atlanta blues scene of the 1920s was among the most fertile in all the South, with a steady stream of rural musicians converging on the city hoping to gain exposure playing the local club circuit, with any luck rising to perform at Decatur ...

  3. Music of Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    Other sludge metal groups from Savannah, Georgia are also sometimes associated with the Atlanta scene, including Baroness, Kylesa, Royal Thunder, and Black Tusk. [ 9 ] Justin Bieber lived in Atlanta during the early to mid-2010s when he was heavily recording music, having been drawn there by Usher and signed to the RBMG label.

  4. DO Savannah: Georgia blues-legend-in-the-making Jontavius ...

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    Savannah Music Festival and Victory North present George Porter Jr. & Runnin' Pardners with Jontavious Willis, Nov. 21.

  5. Blues - Wikipedia

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    The blues scale is often used in popular songs like Harold Arlen's "Blues in the Night", blues ballads like "Since I Fell for You" and "Please Send Me Someone to Love", and even in orchestral works such as George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Concerto in F". Gershwin's second "Prelude" for solo piano is an interesting example of a ...

  6. How Georgia got its swing back: Why the formerly red ... - AOL

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    As the population has increased, so too has the share of votes Democrats have received in these counties. Take Gwinnett, for example. Between 1980 and 2012, the county was a Republican stronghold ...

  7. Georgia blues rocker Tinsley Ellis plays special acoustic set ...

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    Acclaimed blues-rock guitarist and singer Tinsley Ellis returns to Savannah for the first time in more than 10 years with a special performance at the Tybee Post Theater, Aug. 4.

  8. Music of Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Atlanta native Chuck Willis was a blues, R&B, and rock and roll singer and songwriter active from 1950 to 1958. In the 1960s, Atlanta native Gladys Knight proved one of the most popular Motown recording artists, while Otis Redding, born in the small town of Dawson but raised in Macon, defined the grittier Southern soul sound of Memphis-based ...

  9. Portal:Blues - Wikipedia

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    Blues legend B.B. King with his guitar, "Lucille" Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.