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Gospel music developed in the 1930s, with the Golden Gate Quartet. ... Ray Charles and James Brown used gospel and blues music elements. In the 1960s and 1970s, ...
1960 Texas Electric blues [210] John Dee Holeman: 1929 2021 North Carolina Piedmont blues [211] Earl Hooker: 1930 1970 Mississippi Chicago blues [212] John Lee Hooker: 1917* 2001 Mississippi Detroit blues [213] Lightnin' Hopkins: 1912 1982 Texas Country blues [214] Big Walter Horton: 1917* 1981 Mississippi Chicago blues [214] Howlin' Wolf: 1910 ...
British blues is a form of music derived from American blues that originated in the late 1950s, and reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s. In Britain, blues developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar, and made international stars of several proponents of the genre, including the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Yardbirds, John Mayall, Eric ...
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.
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.
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.
Willie Lee Brown (1899 [2] or August 6, 1900 – December 30, 1952) [3] was an American blues guitar player and vocalist.He performed and recorded with other blues musicians, including Son House and Charlie Patton, and influenced Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.
The blues, like jazz, probably began to be amplified in the late 1930s. [1] The first star of the electric blues is generally recognized as being T-Bone Walker; born in Texas but moving to Los Angeles in the mid-1930s, he combined blues with elements of swing music and jazz in a long and prolific career. [1]