History of Blues

By jackalexfrancis
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    Blues

    1860-2000

  • First Appearance of Blues

    The first appearance of the blues is often dated after the Emancipation Act of 1863

  • Exposure of Blues

    Chroniclers began to report about blues music in Southern Texas and Deep South at the dawn of the 20th century. In particular, Charles Peabody mentioned the appearance of blues music at Clarksdale, Mississippi and Gate Thomas reported very similar songs in southern Texas around 1901–1902.

  • First Publication of Blues

    First Publication of Blues
    Antonio Maggio composes "I Got The Blues", first publication to use the word "Blues"(No specefic date found)

  • First Recording by an African American singer

    First Recording by an African American singer
    First recording by Mamie Smith,it was a rendition of Perry Bradfords "Crazy Blues".

  • Spread of Blues

    Spread of Blues
    The spread of Blues throughout the Mississippi Delta

  • Bluegrass

    Bluegrass
    Bluegrass is performed in 1930 by Charlie Poole

  • Lomax

    Lomax
    In the 1930s, together with his son Alan, Lomax made a large number of non-commercial blues recordings that testify to the huge variety of proto-blues styles, such as field hollers and ring shouts.

  • Piedmont Blues

    Piedmont Blues
    "Piedmont Blues" performed by Blind Willie Walker

  • Shuffle

    Shuffle
    The simplest shuffles, which were the clearest signature of the R&B wave that started in the mid-1940s

  • Rockabilly

    Rockabilly
    Jerry Lee Lewis records first Rockabilly version of traditional blues

  • New Influences

    New Influences
    At the end of the 1950s appeared the very bluesy Tulsa Sound merging rock'n'roll, jazz and country influences.

  • New Markets for Blues

    Bluesmen such as Big Bill Broonzy and Willie Dixon started looking for new markets in Europe. Dick Waterman and the blues festivals he organized in Europe played a major role in propagating blues music abroad.

  • New Instruments

    King's band used strong brass support from a saxophone, trumpet, and trombone, instead of using slide guitar or harp. Tennessee-born Bobby "Blue" Bland, like B. B. King, also straddled the blues and R&B genres.

  • New Generation of Blues

    Often termed "soul blues" or "Southern soul", the music at the heart of this movement was given new life by the unexpected success of two particular recordings on the Jackson-based Malaco label

  • Call and Response

    Call and Respone is dated back to 1898