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Blues rock Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock. From its beginnings in the early- to mid-1960s, blues rock has gone through several stylistic shifts and along the way inspired hard rock, Southern rock, and heavy metal.
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The Ry Cooder/Steve Vai Crossroads Guitar Duel The Ry Cooder/Steve Vai Crossroads Guitar Duel. A wonderful 1986 Walter Hill film, Crossroads explores the relationship between a Julliard-trained college boy who loves the blues (Lightnin’ Boy, played by Ralph Macchio) and Willie Brown (played by Joe Seneca, who shared a birthday with yours truly).
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- Deacon Blues is a song by Steely Dan from their 1977 album Aja. The song, while contrasting winning and losing in life, does so by taking as an image the contrast between the perennial powerhouse, Crimson Tide football team, and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.
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The Yardbirds Biography by Richie Unterberger. Adventurous blues-rockers of the '60s, best known for having guitar heroes Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page pass through their ranks. Read Full Biography. Overview ↓. Biography ↓.
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- The Band was a Canadian roots rock group, originally consisting of four Canadians—Rick Danko (bass, vocals), Garth Hudson (keyboards), Richard Manuel (piano, vocals), and Robbie Robertson (guitar)—and one American, Levon Helm (drums, vocals).
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Slippin' and Slidin' Slippin' and Slidin' is a R&B/rock 'n' roll song performed by Little Richard. The song is credited to Little Richard, Edwin Bocage (Eddie Bo), Al Collins, and James Smith. Al Collins first recorded the song as ‘I Got the Blues for You’, then Eddie Bo adapted the song in 1956 under the name I'm Wise. Bo's recording was released by the Apollo label. Little Richard adapted it in the same year, and changed the title to Slippin' and Slidin'.
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List of blues musicians List of blues musicians. Performers in the blues style range from primitive, one-chord Delta players to big bands to country music to rock and roll to classical music. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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How to Get the Blues Sound Picking style: In both slide and fretted guitar styles, guitarists would emphasize the driving rhythm of the blues by thumping out steady bass notes on the low strings with their thumb while in turn, or simultaneously, finger-picking upper strings to sound out chords, melodic riffs, and fills.
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Open For Kings of Leon Kings of Leon lead singer Caleb Followill exclaims, The band is excited to play the House of Blues for such a worthy cause. We are all happy to support Dare 2 Dream's mission to save the lives of countless children..
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Bluestocking A bluestocking is an educated, intellectual woman, more specifically a member of the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society led by the hostess and critic Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Blues, and including Elizabeth Vesey, Hester Chapone, and the classicist Elizabeth Carter. In the following generation came Hester Lynch Piozzi, Hannah More, and Frances Burney. Until the late 18th century, the term had referred to learned people of both sexes. It subsequently was applied primarily to intellec
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Stone Poneys The Stone Poneys were a folk-rock trio formed in Los Angeles, consisting of Linda Ronstadt on vocals, Bobby Kimmel on rhythm guitar and vocals, and Kenny Edwards on lead guitar. Their recordings include Ronstadt's first hit song, a cover of Mike Nesmith's Different Drum.
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Steely Dan - Deacon Blues Deacon Blues is a song by Steely Dan from their 1977 album Aja. It peaked at number 19 in the Billboard charts.[1].
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Dale Hawkins Dies at 73; Rockabilly Author of âSusie Qâ Dale Hawkins, a songwriter and singer whose rockabilly repertory included the 1957 hit “Susie Q,“ a bandstand classic for generations of rockers, died on Saturday in Little Rock, Ark. He was 73.The cause was colon cancer, his Web site said.e formed a band shortly after that. Mr. Hawkins recorded “Susie Q” for Checker, a subsidiary of the celebrated Chicago blues and R&B label Chess Records. He was one of the first white artists the company signed. He was also one of the first white artists to appear at the Apollo in New York and the Regal in Chicago.
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Jump blues Jump blues evolved from the music of big bands such as those of Lionel Hampton and Lucky Millinder. These bands of the early 1940s produced musicians such as Louis Jordan, Jack McVea, Earl Bostic, and Arnett Cobb. Blues and jazz were part of the same musical world, with many accomplished musicians straddling both genres.
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Music As house band of B.B. King’s Blues Club, these guys know how to jam. This group is the most talented collection of musicians in the Mid-South. The band is found weekly on our stage playing rhythm and blues favorites with emphasis on Memphis music, as well as a variety of other styles including soul, pop and classic rock.
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The Blues Brothers  (film) FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK http://www.facebook.com/pages/On-The-... The Blues Brothers is a 1980 musical comedy film directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a musical sketch on the NBC variety series Saturday Night Live.
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- Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, usually played by small groups and featuring saxophone or brass instruments. It was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm and blues and rock and roll. Appreciation of jump blues was renewed in the 1990s as part of the swing revival.
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The Band The Moody Blues. “ The Moody Blues are still the Sistine Chapel of popular music.” – Rolling Stone In an endless sea of rock and pop formats, The Moody Blues have distinguished themselves through four decades as that shimmering jewel vindicating rock music as a substantial artistic contribution to Western culture.he band then released a second PBS special and live album in 2001 entitled Hall Of Fame: Recorded Live At The Royal Albert Hall; and The Moody Blues: Live At The Royal Albert Hall, respectively.
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- The term classic blues really refers to a family of genres including delta blues and country blues, but the term classic blues really refers to the earliest recorded versions of African-American blues music that were preserved in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Reggae The Rockers style was created during the mid-1970s by Sly & Robbie. Rockers is described as a flowing, mechanical, and aggressive style of playing reggae music. The Lovers rock sub-genre originated in South London in the mid-1970s.
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British rhythm and blues Blues Incorporated had a fluid line up and became a clearing house for British rhythm and blues musicians in the later 1950s and early 1960s. These included future members of the Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Manfred Mann and The Kinks; beside Graham Bond and Long John Baldry.
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A Brief History of the Blues The Texas blues, Memphis blues, and St. Louis blues consist of a wide variety of subgenres. Louisiana blues is characterized by a swampy guitar or harmonica sound with lots of echo, while Kansas City blues is jazz oriented—think Count Basie. There is also the British blues, a rock-blues hybrid pioneered by John Mayall, Peter Green and Eric Clapton.
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How the Blues Changed America There was a fear among these men that the rhythm & blues and the urban blues music that had such an impact on rock ‘n roll artists, such as Elvis Presley and the Beatles, would cause a ‘cultural grey-out,’ or too much of a mixture in distinct music forms (Sakakeeny 149). Here is an example of country blues:
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- In the tradition of classic blues rock power trio such as the Jimi Hendrix experience, Cream, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Double Trouble, the Stoney Cutis Band are centered around their lead singer/lead guitarist Stoney Curtis who is, without a doubt, one of the most impressive strat players on the circuit today.
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Classic Blues: Songs & Artists Classic Blues: the Backbone of American Music. The Blues is one of the most beloved and deeply-rooted genres of American music. Classic blues typically refers to the oldest and most traditional styles of blues that originated in the southeastern United States in the late 19th century.
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First Lady Biography: Edith Roosevelt First Lady Biography: Edith Roosevelt. EDITH KERMIT CAROW ROOSEVELT. BIRTH: Norwich, Connecticut. 6 August 1861. Her middle name was the surname of a paternal great-uncle, Robert Kermit. FATHER: Charles Carow, (born 4 October 1825, New York, New York, died 17 March 1883). Son of a successful mercantile family, Carow pursued an import-export business.