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| | The Blues . Blues Road Trip . Louisiana and Texas | PBS |
 | | The piano and horn-driven New Orleans style of blues was enlivened by Caribbean and Dixieland rhythms, while in the Southwest of the state, accordion-driven zydeco emerged from the melding of French folk music, Native and African-American religious and social music, and electric blues. |
 | | The "Swamp blues" emerged on record in the 1950s; influenced heavily by the style of the Chicago area's Jimmy Reed, this featured a slower take on the Louisiana style, with lazy vocals sometimes lagging just behind the rhythm, and incorporated unique studio production techniques. |
 | | Texas blues is characterized by inventive guitar techniques (perhaps influenced by Mexican flamenco style), use of arpeggios, and jazz-inspired improvisation as well as the up-tempo, piano-driven "barrelhouse" style pioneered in Dallas, Houston, and Galveston, and the prominent vocals of slower blues shuffles more reminiscent of Delta traditions. |
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