Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is one of the earliest forms of blues music. The mainly solo vocal with...
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The Country Blues is a seminal album released on Folkways Records in 1959, catalogue RF 1. Compiled by Samuel Charters from 78-rpm recordings, it accompanied...
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Hill country blues (also known as North Mississippi hill country blues or North Mississippi blues) is a regional style of country blues. It is characterized...
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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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Country Blues is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in 1959 and released on the Tradition label. AllMusic reviewer Cub Koda stated:...
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"North Country Blues" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his third studio album The Times They Are a-Changin' in 1964. He also performed it at the 1963...
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Low Country Blues is the seventh studio album by Gregg Allman, and the last studio album to be released during his lifetime. It was produced by T Bone...
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The following is a list of country blues musicians. Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Alger "Texas" Alexander (September...
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The Country Blues is a seminal book by Samuel Charters, published in 1959 and generally acknowledged as the first scholarly book-length study of country...
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"Going Up the Country" (also "Goin' Up the Country") is a song adapted and recorded by American blues rock band Canned Heat. Called a "rural hippie anthem"...
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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...
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Rhythm, Country and Blues (a.k.a. Rhythm Country and Blues) is an album featuring duets between R&B and country music artists on classic songs. It was...
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Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues. It originated in the Mississippi Delta and is regarded as a regional variant of country blues. Guitar...
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on the genre. Blues modes from blues music have been used extensively throughout its history as well. Once called "hillbilly music", the term country music...
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The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker (also known as The Folk Blues of John Lee Hooker) is an album by blues musician John Lee Hooker recorded in Detroit...
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was an American blues and blues-rock band from Chicago. Formed in the summer of 1963, the group originally featured eponymous...
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Blues Cross Country is a 1962 studio album by Peggy Lee, principally arranged by Quincy Jones, with some arrangements by Benny Carter. The album can be...
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Son House (redirect from Delta Blues And Spirituals)
77/78 Blues with a Feeling (3 cuts, 1965), Vanguard CD 77005 Masters of the Country Blues, House and Bukka White, Yazoo Video 500 Delta Blues and Spirituals...
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is known about the exact origin of the music now known as the blues. No specific year can be cited as its origin, largely because the style evolved over...
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The genres and styles present during this period were Native American music, blues and gospel, jazz, swing, Cajun and Creole music, and country. The United...
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The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd...
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blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American, Black-American, community in the 1940s...
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Country Meets the Blues is an album of jazz interpretations of country music and blues tunes performed by the Ramsey Lewis' Trio which was recorded in...
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The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revue band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, who met and began collaborating...
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List of music genres and styles (section Blues)
African blues Blues rock British blues Canadian blues Chicago blues Classic female blues Contemporary R&B Country blues Delta blues Desert blues Detroit...
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Muireann Bradley (redirect from I Kept These Old Blues)
country blues. She appeared on Jools' Annual Hootenanny on 31 December 2023. Following her appearance on the show, her album I Kept These Old Blues entered...
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John Lee Hooker (redirect from John Lee Hooker Sings the Blues)
blues that he developed in Detroit. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi hill country blues....
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Yodeling Bro-country Cajun Cajun fiddle Canadian country Franco-country Christian country Classic country Country and Irish Country blues Country en Español...
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Robert Johnson (category Country blues musicians)
recognized as a master of the blues, particularly the Delta blues style, and as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall...
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1950s in music (redirect from 1950s rhythm and blues)
in a variety of genres including blues, rhythm & blues, country, and pop. Major rock artists of the 1950s include Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry...
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