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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.
This is a list of all songs performed by the English rock band Free. ... "Guy Stevens Blues" 1968 ... List of songs recorded by Free.
Producer – Boz Scaggs; Executive Producer – Harry Duncan; Recorded by Michael Rodriguez and Elliot Scheiner; Assistant Engineers – Skip Curley and Bob Levy; Recorded at Meac Studio, Skywalker Sound (Marin County, CA) and Royal Recording Studio (Memphis, TN).
In a song review for AllMusic, Bill Dahl commented: "No respectable blues band would dare mount a stage without having 'Hide Away' in their arsenal as their principal instrumental break song. So rousingly recognizable is its galloping shuffle groove and stinging melody that it has reigned as the blues set-closer for several decades."
This duo of Relf and Nelson recorded several singles for different labels, before "Harlem Shuffle" in 1963. [1] The song was written by Relf and Nelson, arranged by Gene Page, [3] [4] and produced by Fred Smith. It was based on a number called "Slauson Shuffletime" (named after a boulevard in Los Angeles) by another Los Angeles singer, Round ...
Electric blues is blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments. The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T-Bone Walker in the late 1930s and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters in the 1940s.
Showdown! is a collaborative blues album by guitarists Albert Collins, Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland, [1] released in 1985 through Alligator Records. [4] The album is mostly original material, with cover versions of songs like T-Bone Walker's "T-Bone Shuffle", Muddy Waters' "She's into Something" and Ray Charles' "Blackjack".
The twelve-bar blues (or blues changes) is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music. The blues progression has a distinctive form in lyrics, phrase, chord structure, and duration. In its basic form, it is predominantly based on the I, IV, and V chords of a key.