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The "Deep Elm Blues" (also spelled "Deep Elem Blues" or "Deep Ellum Blues" [1]) is an American traditional song.The title of the tune refers to the historical African-American neighborhood in downtown Dallas, Texas known as Deep Ellum, which was home to blues musicians including Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Lead Belly, and Bill Neely.
The Shelton Brothers, Bob, Joe and Merle, were pioneer country musicians and renowned recording artists based out of Texas from 1933 through the 1960s.They created and popularized the songs Johnson's Old Gray Mule, Deep Elm Blues, These Shoes Are Killing Me, Oh Monah, Match Box Blues and My Heart Oozes Blood For You, "What's The Matter With Deep Elm", "I'm A Handy Man To Have Around" and ...
The Shelton Brothers iterated the name of the district in "Deep Elem Blues, No. 2", "What's the Matter with Deep Elem", and "Deep Elm Boogie Woogie Blues". Dick Stabile and his Orchestra, the Texas Wanderers, and the Wilburn Brothers all invoked the district's name in separate Decca pressings. [26] "Deep Ellum Blues" was later performed by the ...
Willard Robison (September 18, 1894 – June 24, 1968) was an American vocalist, pianist, and composer of popular songs, born in Shelbina, Missouri.His songs reflect a rural, melancholy theme steeped in Americana and their warm style has drawn comparison to Hoagy Carmichael.
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 band's fourth and last video, for the song "Brave Beyond the Call", was filmed during this period. Directed by Adam Rothlein, the video was shown briefly on MTV . At this point, the group met Will Tanous , a friend who had wanted Colossus on his label, and who also worked for the HBO live music show Reverb .
This is a list of songs about London by notable artists. Instrumental pieces are tagged with an uppercase "[I]", or a lowercase "[i]" for quasi-instrumental including non-lyrics voice samples. Included are: Songs titled after London, or a location or feature of the city. Songs whose lyrics are set in London. Excluded are:
Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music—a song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make humorous, [1] sexual innuendos. This trope goes back to early dirty blues recordings, enjoyed huge commercial success in the 1920s and 1930s, [ 1 ] and is used from time to time in modern American blues and blues rock .