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Scott Joplin releases "Maple Leaf Rag" making ragtime main influence on the blues.
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The first blues songs, including W.C. Handy's music, were published as sheet music.
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The United States enters WWI. Military and economic mobilization starts the great internal migration of African Americans.
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Mamie Smith records this song and it becomes the first blues "hit". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaz4Ziw_CfQ
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Electrical recording technology is introduced and blues music is spread wider!
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This dominant blues figure of the late 1920's recorded his first song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoTunkT_3oQ
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The early delta bluesman recorded his first song...Pony Blues
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During the great depression, African Americans migrated north along the route of the Illinois Central Railroad toward Chicago. This is where Chicago Blues was made and it was a different type of blues.
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He makes his first Chicago recordings.
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B.B. King has his first major rhythm and blues hit with a version of "Three O'Clock Blues".
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Muddy Waters performs at the Newport Jazz Festival to tremendous acclaim.
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The first U.S. tour by the Rolling Stones marks the invasion of British blues rock bands.
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Delta bluesmen Son House and Skip James perform at the Newport Folk Festival.
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Muddy Waters and B.B. King perform at the Fillmore East, a concert venue in the East Village region of New York City, to a predominantly white audience.
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Columbia’s release of the complete Robert Johnson recordings on CD goes gold, selling 400,000 albums in six months!
