West Coast blues is a type of blues music influenced by jazz and jump blues, with strong piano-dominated sounds and jazzy guitar solos, which originated...
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West Coast Blues! is a studio album by American tenor saxophonist Harold Land, released in 1960 by Jazzland label. According to Scott Yanow of AllMusic:...
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developed into West Coast blues, Detroit blues, and post-World War II Chicago blues, which differed from earlier, predominantly acoustic-style blues. By the...
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ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and country blues, and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast. In the last several decades, blues music has developed a less regional...
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subgenres. Blues subgenres include country blues, Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues and West Coast blues. World...
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The following is a list of West Coast blues musicians. Dave Alexander Charlie Baty Juke Boy Bonner Freddie Brooks Charles Brown Roy Brown William Clarke...
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The West Coast Blues 'n' Roots Festival is an annual music festival held in Fremantle, Western Australia. It features many blues and roots performers,...
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Lowell Fulson (category West Coast blues musicians)
(March 31, 1921 – March 7, 1999) was an American blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. He also recorded for contractual reasons...
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blues musicians List of Piedmont blues musicians List of soul-blues musicians List of Texas blues musicians List of West Coast blues musicians Blues portal...
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The East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry is a dispute between artists and fans of the East Coast hip hop and West Coast hip hop scenes in the United...
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such as country blues, Delta and Piedmont, Chicago, West Coast blues. World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive...
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in front of a sell out crowd. In April 2011, they performed at the West Coast Blues & Roots Festival in Fremantle. In December 2012, the Cat Empire returned...
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United States and Old West, including: New Mexico music Red Dirt (music) Tejano music Texas country music Western swing West Coast blues, USA Western Music...
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the West Coast Swing are in the Lindy Hop. Western swing, country boogie, and, with a smaller audience, jump blues were popular on the West Coast throughout...
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T-Bone Walker (category West Coast blues musicians)
American blues musician, composer, songwriter and bandleader, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues, West Coast blues, and electric blues sounds...
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The Thrill Is Gone (category Blues songs)
"The Thrill Is Gone" is a slow minor-key blues song written by West Coast blues musician Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951. Hawkins's recording of the...
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Eddie Vinson (category West Coast blues musicians)
December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed "Cleanhead" after an incident...
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Sugar Pie DeSanto (category West Coast blues musicians)
Music Award in 1999 for best female blues singer. In September 2008, she was given a Pioneer Award by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. She received a lifetime...
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Billboard R&B chart List of blues musicians List of jump blues musicians West Coast blues Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues: A Regional Experience...
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Music of California (section West Coast blues)
century, the state became the earliest West Coast territory admitted to the United States. As on the East Coast, music at the time was dominated by popular...
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Charles Brown (musician) (category West Coast blues musicians)
and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced nightclub style influenced West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s. Between 1949 and 1952, Brown had seven Top...
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List of music genres and styles (section Blues)
blues Piedmont blues Punk blues Rhythm and blues Doo-wop Soul blues St. Louis blues Swamp blues Talking blues Texas blues West Coast blues Alternative country...
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Big Jay McNeely (category West Coast blues musicians)
outside the Quasimodo Club in West Germany". McNeely and Wiggins toured in Germany and Italy with The International Blues Duo, Johnny Heartsman, Daryl...
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was one of the biggest blues hits of the 1940s and "helped define the burgeoning postwar West Coast blues style". "Driftin' Blues" has been interpreted...
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Rod Piazza (category West Coast blues musicians)
combines the styles of jump blues, West Coast blues and Chicago blues. Piazza grew up in Southern California, where he studied blues records and perfected his...
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adaptation of Le petit bleu de la côte ouest, under the new English title West Coast Blues. Fantagraphics released a second Tardi adaptation, of The Prone Gunman...
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Johnny "Guitar" Watson (category West Coast blues musicians)
Walker, his recording career spanned 40 years, and encompassed rhythm and blues, funk and soul music. Watson recorded throughout the 1950s and 1960s with...
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the Channel V Billabong Detour, the Byron Bay East Coast Blues and Roots Festival, the West Coast Blues and Roots Festival, and the Cosmonautical Youth Festival...
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Northern soul scene." He also said, "the juicy, Hammond B-3-filled 'West Coast Blues' is the set's best number." "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" (Jimmy...
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Amos Milburn (category West Coast blues musicians)
of blues musicians List of jump blues musicians List of keyboardists List of R&B musicians List of West Coast blues musicians Route 66 Records West Coast...
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