Blues

14 articles related to Blues:

MALE VOCAL

Parchman Farm: the story behind Bukka White's blues

Parchman Farm stands as one of the best-known song by Bukka White, a singer and guitarist who wholeheartedly embraced...
SONGWRITER

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

Ramblin' on My Mind is an iconic blues song cut by the Delta blues singer Robert Johnson as a part of his first...
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Terraplane Blues: first song to compare car problems with intimate relationship

Terraplane Blues is the first single released by Robert Johnson—a traveling blues performer deeply revered by many rock...
Music Theory

6 songs to unpack Ionian mode and the major scale

The polyphonic aspects of Western classical music distinguish it from other musical traditions such as Indian Сlassic...
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Statesboro Blues: no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell

Bob Dylan's track Blind Willie McTell is perhaps the best tribute to this outstanding traveling street artist who has...
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Smokestack Lightning: the eternal Howlin' Wolf blues of the passing trains

Smokestack Lightning is a song written by the Chicago blues singer Chester Arthur Burnett better known under his stage...
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Rollin' and Tumblin' as the essence of slide guitar technique combined with lyrics diversity

Rollin' and Tumblin' is one of the great Delta blues songs that has been interpreted by many blues artists long before...
GUITAR

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

Charley Patton played a crucial role in developing the early blues movement in the Delta region of northwestern... 1 comment
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The bottleneck guitar blues by Blind Willie Johnson is sliding through space on the Voyager Golden Records

Among the musical works sent by NASA into space to represent the cultural values of mankind, sharing its rightfully...
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Big Bill Broonzy's guitar made ripples on both sides of the Atlantic

Big Bill Broonzy was one of the most important Chicago blues singers whose songs would inspire, among many others, Muddy... 1 comment
Electric Guitar

Monnette Sudler: the first lady of jazz guitar

Grammy-nominated jazz guitarist Monnette Sudler is known as the “First Lady of Jazz Guitar,” among other titles. Her...
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The three acts of Lonnie Johnson' blues

Lonnie Johnson (1889—1970) was a prolific American musician, singer, and songwriter, and one of the first major blues...
PIANO

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

Wynton Kelly was born in Brooklyn, NYC in 1931 to Jamaican parents. His blues-based piano playing made him one of the...
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Who is the true architect behind The House of the Rising Sun?

The authorship of The House of the Rising Sun can not be accurately determined to this day, since the song is a folk...