If anything, today, the New Orleans blues sound is a mix of blues, funk and almost second line grooves, that border on rhumbas. The blues chords associated to a twelve-bar blues are typically a set of three different chords played over a 12-bar scheme. Bebop marked a major shift in the role of jazz, from a popular style of music for dancing, to a "high-art", less-accessible, cerebral "musician's music". It is affected by the environment, and thus is also valued for being a precious time bound but still timeless creation. Hip hop and Rap are often used interchangeable, as in rap the music is excluded from hip hop and the verbal part is kept. What made Chicago Blues unique was the energy in the music. Gordon's successor at the library was John Lomax. The early African American rock musicians retained the sexual themes and innuendos of blues music: "Got a gal named Sue, knows just what to do" ("Tutti Frutti", Little Richard) or "See the girl with the red dress on, She can do the Birdland all night long" ("What'd I Say", Ray Charles). It is synonymous with the rock style of 1950s. Before World War II, the boundaries between blues and jazz were less clear. This commercial stream had important consequences for blues music, which, together with jazz and gospel music, became a component of R&B.[85]. Usually jazz had harmonic structures stemming from brass bands, whereas blues had blues forms such as the 12-bar blues. That was in the early 50’s and not much has really changed since then. Blues forms are used in the theme to the televised Batman, teen idol Fabian Forte's hit, "Turn Me Loose", country music star Jimmie Rodgers' music, and guitarist/vocalist Tracy Chapman's hit "Give Me One Reason". Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. And I can't get no hearing from that Memphis girl of mine, Although the blues gained an association with misery and oppression, the lyrics could also be humorous and raunchy:[15], Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me, But who can argue that the blues coming out of Chicago and the blues coming out of New Orleans, or Los Angeles, doesn’t have it’s own “feel”. Before these events, there were reports of blues performed in the South around the turn of the twentieth century. After World War II, new styles of electric blues became popular in cities such as Chicago,[86] Memphis,[87] Detroit[88][89] and St. Louis. [12] This melancholy has led to the suggestion of an Igbo origin for blues because of the reputation the Igbo had throughout plantations in the Americas for their melancholic music and outlook on life when they were enslaved.[13][14]. In 1963, LeRoi Jones, later known as Amiri Baraka, was the first to write a book on the social history of the blues in Blues People: The Negro Music in White America. Handy's "The Memphis Blues" followed in the same year. America was given the blues music genre in the nineteenth century by African Americans, a people group who had been victims of slavery and if they were now free, they were the descendants of slaves with many rich stories to tell of their ancestors. B. Tennessee-born Bobby "Blue" Bland, like B. Welding, Peter; Brown, Toby, eds. The Music Genres List site covers many of the most popular styles of blues music, we hope this becomes the definitive list of blues music genres on the Internet, send an email to add @ musicgenreslist dot com if you feel any blues music genres are missing and we’ll add to complete the music list. Before World War II, Tampa Red was sometimes referred to as "the Guitar Wizard". Some hooked up with family that were already there or found like interests on the south side of Chicago where they lived. But again there are many others. Rhythm and Blues, a subgenre of blues and jazz music, has developed to be considered as a genre in itself. After WWII, blues had a substantial influence on jazz. This music is based on traditions and are usually developed around three chords with a basic plain melody. Go here to fill out our short survey. This added distorted electric guitars and harmonicas to the mix and when his premier band, with Little Walter on harp, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elgin Evans on drums, and Otis Span on piano, came together, they defined what a great Chicago Blues band should sound like. What comes to mind when you think about the blues? When you think of Delta Blues or Country Blues you usually think of one person, usually a man, sitting and playing guitar by himself. Blues guitarist and vocalist Keb' Mo' performed his blues rendition of "America, the Beautiful" in 2006 to close out the final season of the television series The West Wing. Blues is the music that launched a thousand garage bands. It’s music that signifies overcoming bad luck, telling people how you feel, letting loose, and having fun. Currently, the term is also used for African American urban music in not any specific manner. Twelve-bar progression is the most common. And just as B.B. [53], No specific African musical form can be identified as the single direct ancestor of the blues. [76] Ma Rainey, the "Mother of Blues", and Bessie Smith each "[sang] around center tones, perhaps in order to project her voice more easily to the back of a room".