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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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
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).
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.
Frank Hutchison (March 20, 1897 – November 9, 1945) was an American early country blues and Piedmont blues musician and songwriter. [1] Okeh Records promotional materials referred to him as “The Pride of West Virginia,” and he is thought to be the first non-African American musician to record in the country blues idiom. [2]