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Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois. It is based on earlier blues idioms, such as Delta blues , but is performed in an urban style . It developed alongside the Great Migration of African Americans of the first half of the twentieth century.
Vee-Jay Records is an American record label founded in the 1950s, located in Chicago and specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll. The label was founded in Gary, Indiana in 1953 by Vivian Carter and James C. Bracken (shortly after moving to Chicago), a husband-and-wife team who used their initials for the label's name. [ 19 ]
Billboard Top R&B Records of 1961 is the year-end chart compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the top rhythm and blues singles of 1961. [1 ... Code of Conduct ...
US Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart [2] US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart [2] 1998 Something To Talk About: 14 - 2000 Call Me Mr. C: 14 - 2001 Little Giant of Soul: 7 - 2002 The Last Man Standing: 5 - 2004 Changing Tha Game: 5: 83 2005 Full Circle: 7 - 2006 Gifted: 5: 83 2008 Soul & Blues: 11: 93 2008 My Tyme: 6: 83 2012 I Am Rhythm ...
Guitarist Buddy Guy performing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2006. Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone.
Sweet Home Chicago" performed at the White House with Barack Obama joining B.B. King on the chorus. Blues standards are blues songs that have attained a high level of recognition due to having been widely performed and recorded. [1] They represent the best known and most interpreted blues songs that are seen as standing the test of time. [2]
According to Billboard, Chicago was the leading US singles charting group during the 1970s. They have sold over 40 million units in the US, with 23 gold , 18 platinum , and 8 multi-platinum albums. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Over the course of their career they have had five number-one albums and 21 top-ten singles.
Blues Jam in Chicago is a studio recording by the British rock band Fleetwood Mac, originally released in two single-LP volumes by Blue Horizon in December 1969. [1] [2] It was the result of a recording session in early 1969 at Chess Records in Chicago with Fleetwood Mac, then a young British blues band, and a number of famous Chicago blues artists from whom they drew inspiration.