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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]
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.
Memphis blues and country blues guitarist and songwriter. [115] Irene Scruggs (December 7, 1901 – July 20, 1981). Piedmont blues and country blues singer. [116] Alec Seward (March 16, 1902 – May 11, 1972). Piedmont blues and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. [117] J.D. Short (February 26, 1902 – October 21, 1962).
The Texan country traditionalist and passionate yodeller Don Walser later released his Dixie Blues [8] paid homage to this legacy. The "blue yodel syntax", [ 7 ] the combination of blues and yodeling, first appeared in 1923 in the song of the same name composed by Clarence Williams , which was first recorded by Williams' wife Eva Taylor ...
Hill country blues (also known as North Mississippi hill country blues or North Mississippi blues) is a regional style of country blues.It is characterized by a strong emphasis on rhythm and percussion, steady guitar riffs, few chord changes, unconventional song structures, and heavy emphasis on the "groove", which has been characterized as the "hypnotic boogie".
R. L. Burnside (November 23, 1926 – September 1, 2005) was an American Hill country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He played music for most of his life but received little recognition before the early 1990s.
Boggs was born in West Norton, Virginia, in 1898, the youngest of ten children.In the late 1890s, the arrival of railroads in central Appalachia brought large-scale coal mining to the region, and by the time Dock was born, the Boggs family had made the transition from subsistence farming to working for wages and living in mining towns.