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 TBH, A Brief History
Blues lyrics are often intensely personal, frequently contain sexual references and often deal with the pain of betrayal, desertion, and unrequited love (Kamien 519) or with unhappy situations such as being jobless, hungry, broke, away from home, lonely, or downhearted because of an unfaithful lover.
Therefore, these purists maintain that many melodies with the word "blues" in the title, and which are often spoken of as being the blues, are not the blues because their melodies lack this particular basic blues harmonic construction.
Alan Lomax states that the blues tradition was considered to be a masculine discipline (although some of the first blues songs heard by whites were sung by 'lady' blues singers like Mamie Smith and Bessie Smith) and not many black women were to be found singing the blues in the juke-joints.
www.thebluehighway.com /history.html   (2139 words)

  
 Blues Downloads - Download Blues Music - Download Blues MP3s
The first major blues and jazz singer on record and one of the most powerful of all time, Bessie Smith rightly earned the title of "The Empress of the Blues." Even on her first records in 1923, her...
Modern electric blues guitar can be traced directly back to this Texas-born pioneer, who began amplifying his sumptuous lead lines for public consumption circa 1940 and thus initiated a revolution...
Most blues feature simple, usually three-chord, progressions and have simple structures that are open to endless improvisations, both lyrical and musical.
www.mp3.com /blues/genre/19/summary.html   (615 words)

  
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Blues Revue is the world's largest blues publication, devoted to the listener and musician whose musical passion is the full spectrum of the blues.
www.bluesrevue.com   (34 words)

  
 Blues - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
The song structure is simple--much of classic blues is based around a three-chord, 12-bar progression that leaves room for boundless improvisation--and it serves as a foundation for much of today's popular music.
Acoustic country blues, often from the Mississippi Delta, blossomed during the 1920s, while during the '40s the electric guitar took the music in wild new directions (including north to Chicago).
Often sad, lonely, and mournful, but in other cases fully energized and bursting with electric-guitar-fueled vigor, blues is one of the most powerful, influential, and popular musical styles to have risen during the last few centuries.
music.download.com /2001-7976_32-0.html   (363 words)

  
 Jazz History - The Blues
Another Smith — Bessie — (not related) was proclaimed the "Empress of the Blues" based on the prowess of her first recordings in 1923, which contributed some of the lasting masterpieces of the first blues craze.
Early forms of the blues include the "field holler," which allowed laborers in the fields to keep in contact with each other, while the "ring shout" was used for dancing.
Blues, passed down from generation to generation through an "oral" tradition, originally acted as a functional music offering African-Americans a vehicle to convey their daily experiences.
www.vervemusicgroup.com /history.aspx?hid=9   (413 words)

  
 STLtoday - Sports - Blues
Blues rookie goaltender Jason Bacashihua (left) may want to keep his eyes on the puck tonight and focus less on the building he's in.
Though the Blues and Predators are headed in different directions, both of their goaltenders proved their mettle Tuesday as Nashville won 2-0 Tuesday night at Savvis Center.
It took until the last game of the season between the Blues and Columbus, but the NHL finally might be getting what it hoped for when the league upped division games to eight this season to intensify the rivalries.
www.stltoday.com /sports/blues   (319 words)

  
 Blues Online©
Blues Online© is an information resource whose mission is to increase awareness and appreciation of blues music and its history.
Blues music has profoundly influenced contemporary music from jazz to pop to reggae to country.
Aside from the profound artistic influence the Blues has had, the story of its development has much to say historically and sociologically about American society in the twentieth century.
mathrisc1.lunet.edu /blues/blues.html   (388 words)

  
 The Real Chicago Blues, an interview with David Grazian
The blues fell out of favor with middle-class blacks in the late 1950s and early 1960s because it was considered "gutbucket," "low-class" music that recalled the countrified terrain of Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, and other southern spaces that their families had left behind.
They only hire authentic-looking blues musicians, who are generally uneducated men afflicted by blindness, or else they walk on a wooden leg or a second-hand crutch; as they are defiantly poor, they drive beat-up Fords and old Chevy trucks and usually cannot read or write their own name.
Handy's "discovery" of the blues in 1903 does not exactly mark the beginning of the blues; it marks its shift away from an oral tradition and its subsequent commercialization through the distribution of written sheet music.
www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/305686in.html   (2215 words)

  
 Jazz All About Jazz
Even today the blues is widely regarded as the old-fashioned cousin of jazz, rock and rap, when it is actually the father of all three.
To really sing and play the blues, the artist must be blessed with a certain quality that harpist/singer Raful Neal calls “the special feeling.” The relatively small number of musicians who have this special feeling are able to transcend the genre’s limitations and communicate the complete range of human emotions like no other entertainers can.
The blues is the progenitor of most popular music in America, but it hasn’t always gotten the respect it deserves.
www.allaboutjazz.com /library/blues.htm   (668 words)

  
 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival
Cruise the Willamette River on the Portland Spirit and hear legendary blues artists perform on the boat’s two intimate stages.
to be the largest blues festival west of the Mississippi and the second-largest blues festival in the nation, attracting more than 120,000 blues fans.
The festival's "Ray Charles Tribute," a performed by Portland blues allstars specifically for the Waterfront Blues Festival, won a Muddy Award for Performance of the Year.
www.waterfrontbluesfest.com   (448 words)

  
 St. Louis Blues Online Welcome Fans
The Blues are winless in their previous three games and are looking for their second win against Phoenix this season.
Autographed items from the Blues and their opponent will be available for bids.
For most Blues players, this most difficult of regular seasons will come to a merciful end in just a few days.
www.stlouisblues.com   (540 words)

  
 BLUES-L FAQ
The Blues became a separately identifiable form in the late 19th century, spread by aural tradition.
Opposed to this is the theory that it is the music that is critical, that everyone has the blues feeling, and that the Blues transcends race and culture.
Without going into a great deal of technical musical definitions, the Blues is a form of music that grew out of a remembered African tradition merged with European musical formats during the slavery experience of Blacks in America.
www.blues.net /blues-FAQ.html   (2973 words)

  
 Blues News
The Kalamazoo Valley Blues Association will host the 13th annual "Kalamazoo Blues Festival" in the heart of downtown Kalamazoo at the Arcadia Festival Site in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan on July 6-8th, 2006.
Blues rush the borough and beyond this week.
Memphis filmmaker Craig Brewer has started recording the music for his new movie, ``Black Snake Moan.'' The blues-based soundtrack will have some of the genre's top musicians, who began recording in Memphis...
www.topix.net /music/blues   (647 words)

  
 the blues blog
Blues guitarist-singer Jesse Moore is the only one of his five-member New Orleans-based band back in town.
He also performed blues standards from the 20s and 30s, "Lay Me Down a Pallet on the Floor" ("Here's one from way back in the 20s when I was just a young woman getting started myself").
The Daily Yomiuri spoke over the telephone with the gaucho of the blues earlier this week during Gratzer's visit to Taiwan, where he was playing a blues festival.
the-blues-blog.blogspot.com   (3672 words)

  
 The Blues . Blues Classroom PBS
As profound as the blues has been to the national music experience, it has only occasionally entered the American classroom, mostly through individual teachers who were committed blues fans and who created their own methods to integrate the music into curricula.
The Blues educational outreach campaign, created by Experience Music Project, provides teaching strategies and resources for teachers to assist in the integration of blues music, culture, and history into American classrooms, with emphasis on grades 9-12.
A Blues Educational Outreach Advisory Board was created to assist in the development of classroom materials and all lessons have been designed to meet National Education Standards.
www.pbs.org /theblues/classroom.html   (346 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Music: Styles: B: Blues
Blues for Peace - Blues for Peace was set up in Israel to honor the roots of blues music and promote peace and the understanding that ALL peoples have had their share of the Blues.
Blues In Britain - Web-site devoted to British Blues and visting artists.
Blues Paradise - Links to classic musicians Sonny Boy Williamson I and II, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Robert Johnson and Howlin' Wolf as well as links to many more contemporary blues artists.
dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Styles/B/Blues   (528 words)

  
 Blues Estafette
First, the blues acts at the Estafette are "roots" blues and R'n'B performers who play in an original style.
Second, the Estafette is an aural equivalent to a specialist magazine, presenting acts in a variety of styles within the blues idiom.
The Blues Estafette is Europe's premier blues event.
www.bluesworld.com /Estafette.html   (283 words)

  
 Espoo Blues
 Blues, formerly known as Kiekko-Espoo, was founded in 1984 and will celebrate it's 20th anniversary during the season 2004-2005.
Also Blues women's team has won 6 Championships in a row in women's national league.
Blues has 6 junior teams (C-juniors + C-team, B-juniors + B-Team, A-juniors + A-Team) and four cooperation junior club's EJK, EKS, EPS and Jäähonka with 2500 juniors.
www.blues.fi /index2.php?m=11&id=44   (361 words)

  
 CD Baby: CD Baby: BLUES music you will love. - from indiepro
With classically powerful, edgy blues drive, full-throttle guitars, hearty vocals and mountain-moving bass, this is one incredibly meaty album with a perfect trio sound that doesn't shy away from being as intelligent, detail-oriented and well-crafted as it is no-nonsense rockin'.
With a feeling and natural ability that can't be explained for someone so young, Eric delivers a blues guitar performance with an intensity and skill that never fails to amaze anyone who sees or hears the band.
Electric blues and rock in an intense, brooding, powerfully sensual style.
www.cdbaby.com /style/blues/from/indiepro   (700 words)

  
 Birmingham City Home
Blues were beaten by city rivals Aston Villa in today's noon showdown as Chris Sutton's first goal for the club proved only a consolation at Villa Park.
Blues coach Eric Black has pointed to improved defensive performances as the main reason behind the team's recent upturn in form.
Eric Black has vowed that Blues will be going all out for victory against local rivals Villa on Sunday lunchtime.
www.blues.premiumtv.co.uk /page/Home/0,,10412,00.html   (295 words)

  
 Official Blues Traveler Web Site
Blues Traveler will be making their first appearance at the Bonnaroo Music& Festival this June in Manchester, TN.
Blues Traveler will be doing 4 shows in February in the Southwest.
Blues Traveler podcast Interview on Cold Turkey is now available at relix.com.
bluestraveler.com   (611 words)

  
 JAZCLASS - Blues lesson : on Blues origin, Blues harmony, Blues improvisation by Michael Furstner
Triad Blues is in the key of C. The rhythmic motif is a simple 2 bar pattern, repeated every two bars.
In Triad Blues only the C chord (in the LH) is played in root position.
The Blues started in the 19th century as a form of folk music developed by the black slaves in the United States.
www.jazclass.aust.com /bl1.htm   (1415 words)

  
 Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo
This database of blues lyrics is divided into two parts: "primary" songs are those which are used on "Hoodoo in Theory and Practice" web pages and which also have their own transcription pages; "secondary" songs are those which only appear on transcription pages with links to relevant "Hoodoo in Theory and Practice" web pages.
From the blues we can learn or receive independent confirmation about such things as how Goofer Dust was used in Memphis in the 1920s or the mechanisms of dream divination systems employed to obtain lucky numbers for lottery gambling.
I use blues lyrics to exemplify specific magical concepts in "Hoodoo in Theory and Practice" because the 1920s - 30s was a period during which mainstream folklorists, scholars, and book publishers paid scant attention to cultural contributions by African-Americans.
www.luckymojo.com /blues.html#topics   (1663 words)

  
 Harry's Blues Lyrics Online, Home Page, US
If you like blues music too and you're looking for lyrics of blues songs and/or having problems understanding what is being sung and/or understanding the meaning of the lyrics this site might be of some interest to you.
This page is dedicated to blues music and nothing but the blues.
blues lyrics, blues lyrics, blues lyrics, blues lyrics and some more blues lyrics.
blueslyrics.tripod.com /#top   (465 words)

  
 Listen to Free Online Blues Radio Stations - Live365 Internet Radio
Blues music was born in the Mississippi Delta around 1900 and crafted by African Americans working the cotton fields.
Today's guests are 2 great musicians who got their start in the music business as in demand studio musicians- guitar great Larry Carlton and bassist Max Bennett who worked together with the Crusaders, Joni Mitchell, LA Expres
The blues,the whole blues and nothing but the blues!
www.live365.com /cgi-bin/directory.cgi?genre=blues   (203 words)

  
 Blues Foundation :: Home
The Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise has proven to be one of The Blues Foundation's biggest financial sponsors in the recent years and this past year is no exception.
A two-country blues blowout in Windsor ON & Detroit MI Friday May 26 to Sunday May 28 This summit is a being hosted by the Detroit Blues Society and the Canada South Blues Society (Windsor chapter).
The Blues Music Foundation is currently accepting applications to underwrite projects that promote blues education, assist organizations with special blues-related needs, and support other worthy blues causes.
www.blues.org /index.php4   (1551 words)

  
 ESPN.com: St. Louis Blues Clubhouse
The St. Louis Blues historic playoff run is coming to an end and the team is at rock bottom.
The Blues fell to 8-6-4 against opponents from the Northwest Division - the only division they own a winning record against.
Last result: 5-4 loss (SO) at Minnesota, April 4 Streak: Lost 11 Next game: vs. Nashville, April 6 The Blues suffered their 11th consecutive loss Tuesday, a 5-4 shootout setback to the Wild.
sports.espn.go.com /nhl/clubhouse?team=stl   (329 words)

  
 Bad Dog Blues Radio
Bad Dog Blues has been blasting the blues for the past fourteen years playing the best blues from the 20's to the present.
Bad Dog Blues is broadcast live from WITR 89.7 based out of the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.
Our blues shows will be offline for a few days as we move them over to a new server.
www.baddogblues.com   (211 words)

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