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With very odd costumes and black faced performers and controversial racial caricatures, the show grows popularity across the nation.
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The earliest collection of African-American spirituals, Slave Songs of the United States,, is published.
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Scott Joplin publishes the very popular song "Maple Leaf Rag." Ragtime is starting to become a key influence on the Piedmont style of blues.
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The first ever recording of Black Music by Victor Records was, "Camp Meeting Shouts."
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Famous musician W.C. Handy sees a bluesman in Mississippi playing guitar with a knife sitting at a train station.
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The first ever blues song are published as sheet music. The first male folk blues records, featuring singers Papa Charlie Jackson and Daddy Stovepipe are apart of the first song.
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929 started on Black Thursday, foreshadowing the start of the Great Depression in America. Among widespread economic disaster, sales of records and phonographs decrease, crushing the music industry.
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Jump blues was pioneered by Louis Jordan and Ralph Peer would record the first folk music to be later names Country Music.
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Eddie Durham is the first to record using the electric guitar. The modern day instrument, first developed by musician George Beauchamp and engineer Adolph Rickenbacher right around the Great Depression will help to boost the melody of the blues.
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Muddy Waters creates his first Chicago recordings, beginning his career as the alpha figure in the Chicago blues and a key link between the Mississippi Delta and Urban Styles.
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The editor at Billboard magazine changes the term "rhythm and blues" for the unprofessional "race" records, according to Jerry Wexler
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B.B. King has his first major blues hit with a new rhythm version of "Three O'Clock Blues."
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Elvis Presley makes his recording debut after signing with Sun Records to create a version of Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's "That's All Right."
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Blues recording artists Muddy Waters and B.B. King sing at the Fillmore East, a concert venue New York City, to a primarily non-colored audience.
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The U.S Congress declares the year 2003 the "Year of the Blues," because of the 100th anniversary of artist W.C. Handy's encounter with an unknown early bluesman waiting at a train station in Mississippi in 1903.
