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"Slave Songs of the United States" was released.
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Gertrude Pridgett, later known as Ma Rainey in Ma and Pa Rainey-the Assassinators of the Blues, was the first know blues singer.
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"Camp Meeting Shouts" was the first known publish of black music. Published by Victor Records.
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William Christopher Handy, the bandleader of the Knights of Pythius Orchestra, would create a whole new type of music known as the blues.
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Early blues recorded as sheet music.
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Mckinley Morganfeild, also known as Muddy Waters, was considered the king of blues after he revolutionized the Chicago blues with his electric guitars.
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"Crazy Blues" By Mamie Smith was recorded
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Blind Lemon Jefferson's career. He influenced man artists and was a great pioneer of early blues music. Died 1929
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With the great depression, blacks were drive towards Chicago. A whole new type of blues was crated, Chicago Blues.
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The first electric guitar was created, and will be used for playing many blues melodies.
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Huddie leadbetter became the first black man to perform to a white audience outside of the south.
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Eric Clapton and the Yardbirds song "Boom Boom," began a rise of blues across Europe.
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Rolling Stones has first United States tour marking the rise of British Blues Rock
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Louis Armstrong invented skat, a type of singing jazz improvisations.
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The SF blues festival began
