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Title: The Blues


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The Blues
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The Blues
  • The blues is a 12 bar structure
  • The blues is a combination of West African
    Rhythms,
  • Call and Response pattern, And Western European
    chord structure.
  • The blues evolution began on Beale Street in
    Memphis Tennessee
  • Beale Street is the Broadway of Blues music
  • Blue Notes add color and texture to a song, extra
    added harmony
  • The blues scale is 1 b3 4 4 5 b7 1.
  • This is the primary scale all blues musicians use
  • The 12 bar blues structure became standard in the
    1920s.
  • This structure influenced rock and roll.
  • Is the same structure for rock and roll songs

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The Blues
  • Blues and Country music got their start around
    the same time in the early 20th century
  • Blues was race music
  • Country was hillbilly music
  • First Blues song was Memphis Blues by W. C.
    Handy, recorded in 1912
  • Country Blues was first started in the south,
    used slide guitar.
  • Leadbelly, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake
    were first county blues artists.
  • Artists sang Solo, on banjo or guitar was big
    influence on Delta blues
  • Delta Blues from Mississippi Delta
  • slide guitar, harmonica
  • best delta blues musician was Robert Johnson

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The Blues
  • Memphis blues was established in Memphis
    Tennessee
  • Influenced by Jug bands. Washboards, fiddles,
    kazoo, mandolin
  • Memphis blues musicians moved to Chicago and
    created Chicago blues or Urban Blues
  • Used electric instruments.
  • Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker were important
    Chicago blues musicians
  • Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, popular
    female blues singers of the 1920s
  • Mamie Smith was first black woman to record a
    blues song in 1920
  • called Crazy Blues. 75,000 copies sold in the
    first month of release
  • MA Rainey was the mother of the blues.

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The Blues
  • Jump blues was started in Kansas City by Big Joe
    Turner
  • Influenced by Stride Piano version of ragtime
    music
  • direct influence on Boogie Woogie early rock and
    roll of Little Richard and Jerry lee Lewis
  • B.B. King is most influential and important
    modern blues guitarist
  • influenced musicians like Bo Diddley, Chuck
    Berry, Eric Clapton
  • Albert King, Buddy Guy influential modern day
    blues musicians
  • Had major influence on British rock and rollers
    like Rolling Stones, Cream,
  • Lead Zeppelin, Jimmi Hendrix

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The Blues
  • Texas rock and roll was influenced by Texas blues
    musicians like Stevie Ray Vaughn.
  • Influenced Southern rock bands like ZZ top,
    Lynard Skynard, Doobie Brothers
  • The movie The Blues Brothers was released in 1980
    Was an important movie about the blues
  • featured blues music and blues musicians.
  • Created a renewed interest in blues music and
    restarted the careers of many blues artists.
  • W.C. Handy award is the award for best blues
    artists,
  • is the Grammy for Blues music

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W. C. handy
  • Known as the Father of the Blues
  • First educated musician
  • Born in a log cabin built by his grandfather
  • Deeply religious, religious themes in his music

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W. C. Handy
  • Started to learn the guitar, switched to trumpet
  • Age 23 led his own band, performed at the Chicago
    Worlds Fair in 1893
  • Toured the county until 1900 Accepted teaching
    position at Alabama Agriculture and Mechanical
    College for Negroes.
  • Only Negro college in Alabama
  • 1903 resigned from teaching for lack of pay.
    Started touring again
  • 1909 moved to Memphis, recorded Memphis Blues in
    1912
  • Became music publisher in 1917 because blacks
    could not get music published
  • Moved to New York City to open publishing company
  • Published Beale street blues and Kansas City
    Blues
  • 1920 opened Handy record Company

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W. C. Handy
  • 1925 Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong recorded
    his St. Louis Blues
  • In 1926 became an author.
  • Wrote anthologies of blues music
  • Wrote 5 books
  • 1929 St. Louis Blues was made into a movie
    starring Bessie Smith
  • Was considered one of the worlds greatest
    musicians and song writers

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Ma Rainey
  • 1886- 1939
  • Considered the mother of the blues
  • Earliest known professional blues singers

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Ma Rainey
  • Mentor and major influence on Bessie Smith
  • First public performance was at age 14
  • 1904 joined the Rabbit Foot Minstrels
  • 1912 met Bessie Smith, took her under her wing
  • Trained her in stage presence and how to be a
    performer
  • out spoken supported of womens rights
  • 1923 made her first recordings
  • Signed with Paramount records, recorded 100 songs
  • Great Depression hurt her career, retired in 1933

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Bessie Smith
  • 1894-1937
  • Most popular and successful blues singer of the
    1920s
  • Enormous influence on modern singers
  • like Janis Joplin, Nora Jones, Billie Holliday
    and Mahalia Jackson

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Bessie Smith
  • started singing with her brother on the streets
    of Tennessee
  • 1904 brother left to join minstrel show
  • 1912 he returns to take Bessie with him
  • Joined the Moses Stokes Theater Company
  • Met Ma Rainey
  • 1913 developed her own act.

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Bessie Smith
  • 1920 started to gain fame
  • 1923 Joined the TOBA
  • First big hit was Down Hearted Blues
  • Became highest paid black performer
  • Was the Madonna or Beyonce of her time
  • 1929 performed in her first Broadway play
  • 1929 stared in the movie St Louis Blues
  • A talkie movie that was written with her in
    mind to star in
  • 1933 signed with Okeh music label was paid 37.50
    per recording
  • Recorded with the likes of Louis Armstrong and
    Benny Goodman

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Bessie Smith
  • September 1937 injured in car wreck on US 61
  • Since she was black she was forced to go to a
    segregated Afro- Hospital
  • that was 4 hours away from crash site
  • instead of the white hospital that was 45 mins
    away.
  • Arm was amputated and died from complication
  • recanted in the book Death of Bessie Smith in
    1959

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Robert Johnson
  • Most famous Delta Blues musician
  • Did not start recording until 1935
  • influenced many modern musicians like Eric
    Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones
  • Recorded only 29 songs total of 42 tracks, over 2
    day period in San Antonio Texas
  • Most famous song was Sweet Home Chicago
  • legend says he sold his soul to the Devil at the
    crossroads
  • US 61 and US 49 in Mississippi
  • considered greatest blues singers of all times

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Robert Johnson
  • Used raw emotion in his lyrics,
  • used bass strings on his guitar for melody
  • this is opposite of usual guitar playing
  • Many musicians have recorded his songs.
  • Movies like The Blues Brothers, O Brother, Where
    Art Thou, and Crossroads have cameo story lines
    on his life

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Lead Belly
  • Huddie William Leadbetter
  • 1885-1949
  • Folk and blues musician
  • One of the first guitarists to use 12 strings

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Lead Belly
  • Wrote folk music and blues song book
  • started playing guitar at 5 years old
  • At age 20 he left home to become a musician
  • Worked as a musician and laborer (handy man etc)

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Lead Belly
  • 1918 first trouble with the law
  • Thrown in jail for killing man in a bar fight.
  • Would be in and out of prison most of his life
  • Was stabbed in prison and survived. Which is how
    he got his nick name
  • 1930 was discovered by Alan Lomax while in prison
  • Recorded his music for book history of the blues
  • Wrote a song to the governor of Louisiana
  • He liked the song so much was granted parole
  • 1934 moved to New York
  • Recorded with American Record Company
  • 1939 back in prison for assult, 15th time in jail

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Lead Belly
  • released in 1940 became hero of folk musicians
  • 1949 European tour
  • Became ill
  • Diagnosed with Lou Gerigs disease
  • Wrote huge song book for folk and blues music
  • Has been recorded by thousands of musicians
  • Wrote famous songs like
  • Black Betty
  • House of the Rising Sun

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Big Joe Turner
  • 1911-1985
  • Boss of the Blues
  • From Kansas City
  • Wrote hit rock and roll song Shake, rattle and
    Roll
  • One of the first to mix RB with boogie-woogie,
    resulting in jump blues

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Big Joe Turner
  • Shake Rattle and Roll is one of the first rock
    and roll hits
  • The originator of Jump Blues
  • Was a huge man, almost 6 foot tall and rarely
    used a microphone

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Big Joe Turner
  • Was main influence on Bill Haley and the Comets
    and Elvis Presley
  • won award for best blues singer in 1945
  • Worked as a bouncer, bartender and singer in
    Kansas city
  • Teamed up with piano player Pete Johnson to
    create the fist jump blues band
  • Worked with Johnson well into the 1950s
  • Went on Alan Freed Tours with Fats Domino, the
    Clovers, Bo Diddley and other pioneers of rock
    and roll
  • Last hit was The 1983 album Blues Train

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Muddy Waters
  • 1915-1983
  • Father of Chicago Blues
  • 1930 bought first guitar
  • recorded by Alan Lomax for history of blues
    recordings

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Muddy Waters
  • 1943 moved to Chicago
  • Switched from acoustic to electric guitar
  • used bottle neck style of playing
  • 1946 first recordings for Columbia records

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Muddy Waters
  • used guitar, bass, rhythms section, first to use
    trio type setting
  • direct influence on rock and roll
  • 1960s rock stars site him as major influence
    because of his singing and playing
  • Influenced major rock stars of the 60s to
    present
  • He created the Power Trio setting
  • influenced Chuck Berry and other rock stars
  • Rolling stones named their band after one of his
    hit songs.
  • Led Zepplin recorded his song Whole Lotta Love
  • Influnence on AC/DC, The Who, The Beatles,
    Nirvana, etc

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John Lee Hooker
  • 1917-2001
  • influential Chicago blues guitarist
  • famous songs were Boom Boom and Boogie Chillin
  • ran away from home at 15 to become a musician

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John Lee Hooker
  • 1930s worked on Beal Street to make a name for
    himself
  • Moved to Detroit in the 1940s to work for Ford
    motor company
  • Started recording career
  • Boogie Chillin was first hit

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John Lee Hooker
  • he was illiterate, could not read or write
  • Known for his dramatic lyrics
  • sang in the movie the blues brothers
  • 1989 received a Grammy award for his album the
    healer
  • recorded over 100 albums
  • Star on the Hollywood walk of fame in 1991
  • Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  • Has 2 songs on top 500 songs of all time
  • Inducted into the blues hall of fame
  • 2000 Grammy award for life time achievement

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B.B. King
  • born in 1925
  • Best modern day blues musician
  • Lucille is the name of his guitar, named after
    his wife
  • started performing in the 1940s
  • Is a good humanitarian and spokesman for diabetic
    causes.

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B.B. King
  • 1947 started recording for RPM records
  • Produced by Sam Phillips, who found Elvis.
  • Was nick named Beale Street Blues Boy
  • Was a D.J. on Beal Street in Memphis
  • Shortened name to B.B

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B. B. King
  • 1962 signed with Paramount records
  • First major hit in 1969 with The Thrill is Gone
  • Opening act for the Rolling stones
  • from 1951-1985 appeared on Bill board top 10
    charts 74 times
  • 1988 performed with U2 on Rattle and Hum
  • 2000 performed with Eric Clapton on Riding with
    the King
  • 2003 performed with Phish
  • 2006 age of 80- European tour
  • Huge influence on modern day guitarists and rock
    musicians
  • 1990 received national Medal of Arts
  • 2004 PHD from University of Mississippi
  • 2006 Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • 14 Grammy Awards
  • number 3 on the list of 100 greatest guitar
    players
  • Favorite singer is Frank Sinatra

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Buddy Guy
  • 1936- present
  • Rock and Chicago blues guitarist
  • Main influence on Jimi Hendrix
  • Father of Rapper Shawnna
  • Known for his showmanship
  • Plays guitar behind his back
  • Gave Hendrix idea for stage gimmicks

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Buddy Guy
  • moved to Chicago in 1957
  • Met and taught by Muddy Waters
  • 1960 influence felt on British bands
  • American Folk Blues festival in London
  • Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart

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Buddy Guy
  • 1969 headliner on concert that featured Eric
    Clapton and Led Zeppelin
  • Bridge between blues and rock and roll
  • Huge influence on Stevie Ray Vaughn, Clapton,
    Zeppelin, Hendrix, Rolling Stones,
  • Used distortion, and feed back (like Hendrix)
  • Buddy Guy was to blues what Elvis was to Rock
  • Inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  • 5 Grammy awards
  • 23 W. C. Handy awards
  • Billboard Musician of the Century award
  • Congressional Medal of Arts

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Stevie Ray Vaughn
  • 1954-1990
  • one of the most influential modern blues
    guitarists
  • Huge influence on southern rock
  • Band was named Double Trouble

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Stevie Ray Vaughn
  • Influence on ZZ Top, Lynard Skynard, Doobie
    Brothers
  • performed with David bow on his hits China Girl
    and Lets Dance
  • top selling records in the 1980s before drug
    addiction aught up with him

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Stevie Ray Vaughn
  • After stint in rehab re-invented his career
  • Played with Clapton and the fabulous Thunderbirds
  • Died in Helicopter crash in 1990
  • Number 7 on the top 100 guitarists of all times

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