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Country blues ran parallel to urban blues, which was popular in cities. [2] Historian Elijah Wald notes many similarities between blues, bluegrass, and country & western styles with roots in the American south. [3] Record labels in the 1920s and 1930s carefully segregated musicians and defined styles for racially targeted audiences. [4]
Hill country blues albums (1 C) J. Lonnie Johnson (musician) albums (4 P) L. Lead Belly albums (11 P) M. Mississippi John Hurt albums (3 P) S. C. W. Stoneking albums ...
Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) refers to all the acoustic, guitar-driven forms of the blues.Originating in the southern United States, country blues quickly spread throughout the country resulting in many regional styles, Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, Texas, Piedmont, Louisiana, Western, Atlanta, St. Louis, East Coast, Swamp, New Orleans, Delta ...
The Country Blues is a seminal album released on Folkways Records in 1959, catalogue RF 1. Compiled by Samuel Charters from 78-rpm recordings , it accompanied his book of the same name to provide examples of the music discussed.
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings said "Riverside required Hooker to play only acoustic guitar. What motivated this redirection, and in particular the 'classic blues' repertoire on the first album was a view of the blues - you might say a politics of the blues - very much of its time ... though, as always with Hooker the result is not exact commemoration so much as highly personalised ...
Ed Bell (born May 1905, died 1960, [2] 1965 [3] or 1966) [1] [4] was an American Piedmont blues and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter whose identity has only recently been verified by historians. [1] [4] [5] Some of his records were released under the pseudonyms Sluefoot Joe and Barefoot Bill from Alabama. [1]
1964 Big City Blues (Vanguard) – includes the first blues-rock cover of Willie Dixon's "Back Door Man", later made famous by the Doors. 1965 Country Blues (Vanguard) 1965 So Many Roads (Vanguard) 1967 Mirrors (Vanguard) – reissued on Real Gone Music in 2016. 1967 I Can Tell ; 1968 Sooner or Later (Atlantic) – reissued on Water Music in 2002.
Lottie Kimbrough (born 1893 [3] or 1900; [4] date of death unknown) was an American country blues singer, who was also billed as Lottie Beaman (her married name), Lottie Kimborough, and Lena Kimbrough (among several other names).