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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.
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians. Although his recording career spanned only seven months, he is recognized as a ...
1940–1979 blues. Luther Allison. Billy Boy Arnold. Bobby "Blue" Bland. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, 1999. Paul Butterfield at Woodstock Reunion, 1979. Eric Clapton, 2006. Eddie Clearwater in Montreux, 1978. Albert Collins at Long Beach Blues Festival, 1990.
Singer. Years active. 1899–1939. Labels. Paramount. Gertrude " Ma " Rainey (née Pridgett; April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) [1][2][3] was an American blues singer and influential early-blues recording artist. [4] Dubbed the "Mother of the Blues", she bridged earlier vaudeville and the authentic expression of southern blues, influencing a ...
Blues is a music genre [ 3 ] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [ 2 ] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm ...
AllMusic. [1] Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey is a 2003 box set released on Hip-O Records. It is the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese PBS documentary series The Blues. [2] The box set attempts to present a history of the blues from the dawning of recorded music to the present day. It offers a survey of many different ...
Bob Margolin is the Musical Director for The Pinetop Perkins Workshop Experience [9] - an annual blues music educational workshop held in Clarksdale, Mississippi, organized by The Pinetop Perkins Foundation. Professional blues musicians from all over the world teach youths the blues music tradition and instrumentation: guitar, drums, bass ...
The album concentrates on the first electrically recorded blues discs made in North America between 1927 and 1931. [8] It covers a broad range of blues music, from Mississippi Delta artists such as, Charley Patton, Son House and Skip James to Memphis songsters like Frank Stokes and jug bands including the Memphis Jug Band and Cannon's Jug Stompers, Piedmont blues players like Blind Willie ...