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Slavery in AmericaAfrican Americans come to Virginia (United states) for the first time, to be used in slavery.
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Aberham Lincoln starts working to free the slaves, issuing the Emanciation Proclamation.
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The day the Amendments were officialized, slavery was ended and banned.
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A collection of 136 insperationalsongs were released. They were named slave songs because they are about slavery. These were the earliest African American spirituals to be realesed.
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W.C. Handy, a musician, see's and hears a Bluesman at a Mississippi train station, playing guitar with a knife.
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The first Blues songs are recorded and published as sheet music. This includes W.C. Handy's 'Memphisis Blues'.
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Mamie Smith and The Birth of The Blues MarketMamie Smith records music for Okeh Records and Crazy blues becomes the first hit blues song. This begins the business of 'Race" recording.
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The first male Folk Blues music is recorded. Folk becomes a big style of music as well.
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Genius In The ShadowsSoon after The Great Depression, Eddie Durham records music featuring the electric guitar, for the first time. This instrument forever changes the sound of bllues music.
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Artist and musican, T-Bone walker, plays the electric guitar when recording his song, "Call It Stormy Monday".
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Jerry Wexler, editor of Billboard Magazine changes the older name "race" records to 'Rhythm and Blues.'
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Civil Rights Campains work to allow blacks to vote, which brings young white peoeple to the south.
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Muddy Waters and B.B. King perform to a mostly white audience at a concert venue in New York.
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Congress officially declares that 2003 is the "year of the blues" and also the anniversary of when W.C. Handy found the Bluesman at the train station in Mississippi.
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A documentary is released, called Piano Blues. It is produced by Martin Scorsese. The documentary is all about musci, piano and blues.
