Blues

13 articles related to Blues:

SONGWRITER

Ramblin' on My Mind: Delta blues masterpiece cut in a hotel room

USA,
Blues
, 1930s
SONGWRITER

Terraplane Blues: first song to compare car problems with intimate relationship

USA,
Blues
, 1930s

Music Theory

6 songs to unpack Ionian mode and the major scale

England, USA,
Blues
, Folk, Popular Song, Rock, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
SONGWRITER

Statesboro Blues: no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell

USA,
Blues
, 1920s, 1930s
SONGWRITER

Smokestack Lightning: the eternal Howlin' Wolf blues of the passing trains

USA,
Blues
, 1950s
SONGWRITER

Rollin' and Tumblin' as the essence of slide guitar technique combined with lyrics diversity

England, USA,
Blues
, Rock, 1930s, 1950s, 2000s

GUITAR

Charley Patton's guitar tricks bridged the genre gap between Delta blues and rock'n'roll

USA,
Blues
, 1920s, 1930s, 2000s 1 comment
SONGWRITER

The bottleneck guitar blues by Blind Willie Johnson is sliding through space on the Voyager Golden Records

USA,
Blues
, 1920s, 1930s
SONGWRITER

Big Bill Broonzy's guitar made ripples on both sides of the Atlantic

USA,
Blues
, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s 1 comment
ELECTRIC GUITAR

Monnette Sudler: the first lady of jazz guitar

USA,
Blues
, Jazz, 1970s, 1990s, 2000s
SONGWRITER

The three acts of Lonnie Johnson' blues

Canada, USA,
Blues
, Jazz, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
PIANO

To study academic theory, superb pianist Wynton Kelly took up bass

Jamaica, USA,
Blues
, Jazz, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
SONGWRITER

Who is the true architect behind The House of the Rising Sun?

England, USA, Ballade,
Blues
, Popular Song, Rock, Classical, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 2000s