The term blues ballad is used to refer to a specific form of popular music which fused Anglo-American and Afro-American styles from the late 19th century...
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Ballad of the Blues is an album by vocalist Jo Stafford that was released in 1959. She is supported by the Starlighters, a male vocal quartet, and an orchestra...
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Old, New, Ballads, Blues is the fifteenth solo album by Northern Irish blues guitarist and singer Gary Moore. All tracks are written by Gary Moore, except...
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Best of Ballads & Blues is a compilation album by the American glam metal band Poison, released by Capitol Records on August 5, 2003. Unlike Poison's Greatest...
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Ballads and Blues may refer to: Ballads & Blues (Milt Jackson album), 1956 Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, 1957 debut album by folk singer Odetta Ballads...
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A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally...
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Morrow called the album "remarkably eclectic". He praised "Gabriel's Mother's Highway Ballad #16 Blues", writing that it "wraps around the listener like...
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Nights of Ballads & Blues is the third album by the jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, released on the Impulse! label in 1963. It features performances by Tyner...
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Broadway-Blues-Ballads is an album by the singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone, released in 1964. The album features Simone singing a few standards and...
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Ballads & Blues 1982–1994 is a compilation album by Northern Irish rock guitarist, singer and songwriter Gary Moore. Released in 1994, the album encompasses...
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The Ballad of John Henry is the seventh studio album by the American blues rock musician Joe Bonamassa. Produced by Kevin Shirley, it was released on 24...
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Blues & Ballads is a 1960 recording featuring Lonnie Johnson on vocals and electric guitar accompanied by Elmer Snowden on acoustic guitar and Wendell...
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Blues Ballads is the fifth studio album from American rhythm and blues singer LaVern Baker, released by Atlantic Records in 1959. Editors at AllMusic rated...
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American ballads', developed without reference to earlier songs. A further development was the evolution of the blues ballad, which mixed the genre with...
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"Blues in the Night" is a popular blues song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. The...
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narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response...
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"The Ballad of Curtis Loew" is a song written by Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant and recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd. The song was first released on the band's...
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Blues and Ballads is a studio album by jazz pianist Brad Mehldau. It is a piano trio recording, with Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums...
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the flip), and number one in Norway. Cash Box compared it to "Lookin' Out My Back Door", calling "Long as I Can See the Light" "a slower paced ballad...
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"Ballad of Hollis Brown" is a folk song written by Bob Dylan, released in 1964 on his third album The Times They Are A-Changin'. The song tells the story...
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Korean ballad, also known as K-ballad (often simply referred to by South Koreans as ballad; Korean: 발라드), is a style of music in South Korea and a genre...
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Dax Riggs (redirect from Daisyhead & the Mooncrickets)
spare, dark ballads interspersed with blues-based heavy metal, although the sound never reverts to the more aggressive stylings of Acid Bath. The band broke...
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"Cocaine Blues" is a Western swing song written by Troy Junius Arnall, a reworking of the traditional song "Little Sadie." Roy Hogsed recorded a well known...
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Mitch Miller (redirect from Mitch Miller and The Gang)
(2003). Ballad of the Blues (Audio CD). Feinery. "Sing Along With Mitch | A Television Heaven Review". Televisionheaven.co.uk. Archived from the original...
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John Henry (folklore) (redirect from The Ballad Of John Henry)
Steam Drill" and "Natural Man", both on Land of Giants (1964) Dave Van Ronk Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues, and a Spiritual Kabir Suman Hemanga Biswas...
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Blues, Ballads and Beyond is the tenth classical/new music studio album from trombonist Mark Hetzler on the Summit Records label. It was critically acclaimed...
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Sings Ballads and Blues is the debut solo album by American folk singer Odetta. It was released in November 1956 by Tradition Records. Like much of Odetta's...
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The Moody Blues were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1964. The band initially consisted of Graeme Edge (drums), Denny Laine (guitar/vocals)...
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Plays More Blues, Ballads & Favorites is a 2011 release by Texas blues guitarist/singer Jimmie Vaughan. It was released by Shout! Factory and Proper Records...
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and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the African-American community in the 1940s. The term...
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