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Field Holler
Field hollering is a work song that dates back to when there was African Slavery. During their work they would do a call and response to communicate with one another or to vent out any feelings. -
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History of Blues Music
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Civil War
The war was about preserve the Union but it was also about fighting to end slavery as it was very controversial. Approximately 620,000 soldiers died from combat, accident, starvation, and disease during the Civil War. In the end the North eventually won the war. -
Emancipation Proclamation Issued
President Abraham Lincoln was the one who established the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation issued to free all of the slaves that were in the Confederate States if they didn't return to the Union. Abraham essentially freed the people who were slaves. -
Slave Songs of the United States
These slave songs were a collection of African American music which had contained 136 songs. The collector of these songs were Northern abolitionists William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, and Charles Pickard Ware. -
Jim Crows Laws and The Blues
The Jim Crows Laws began with a performer who staged as a stereotype of African Americans. This soon became the nickname for the anti-black law after the Civil War had ended. The Blues wouldn't have evolve as it is now if it wasn't for the law because people sang the blues as an act of protest against the law. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was a movement where six million African American left the south and moved all the way to the North and mid west. They left their lives as slaves to have a better life and they brought Blues music with them. -
W.C. Handy
W.C. Handy was a man who moved to Beale Street and was hired by the politician E.C. Crump in order to gain the black vote. He asked handy to write a song for him which was called "Mr. Crump", which would be the basis of "Memphis Blues". The song was a hit and W.C. Handy went on to make many more songs and gained the nickname "The Father of Blues". -
Mamie Smith
During the 1910 blues music was only instrumental but that all changed when Mamie Smith produced a song called "Crazy Blues". She entered blues history to be the first African American who published a song with vocal recordings. -
Texas Blues
The form of blues uses more swing and jazz in it than any other kind of blues music. This kind of style has a stronger rhythm and a little faster tempo than other styles followed by electric guitar. Musicians who used these kind of styles were T-bone Walker, Lemon Jefferson, and Lightnin' Hopkins -
Northbound Blues
Maggie Jones is an american singer and pianist who sang Northbound blues which was the earliest example of songs that reference the Jim Crows Law. What was unique for this song to be popular was that normally female blues singers don't mention Jim Crows Laws as often. -
Robert Johnson
Johnson was a blues singer-songwriter and musician and his first music was published 1936-1937. Although his career as a musician was very short he was well known for his songs,"Cross Road Blues","Dust my Broom", and "Sweet Home Chicago". Johnson lived a short life of 27 years and there are even myths that he sold his soul to the devil. -
Jump Blues
Jump Blues is a style of music where one combines swing and blues together. The style developed from the Big Band era and there sound was based on a basic 12-bar blues structure. They improved there sound in the 1980s -
John lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker was an American Blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. John Lee liked to put other kinds of musical elements into his music such as talking blues and hill country blues. He was an incredible musician with his own rhythm and groove to his music. Some of his best music he his known for is,"Boogie Chillen'", "Crawling King Snake", "Dimples", "Boom Boom" -
B.B. King
B.B. King is known as the King of Blues because he helped define the blues to a worldwide audience. His first break started in 1948 when he performed his song "Sonny boy williamson". Over the years, B.B. has developed one of the world’s most identifiable guitar styles. He was put into the Blues Foundation Hall of fame in 1984 and in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame in 1987 -
Blues Rock
This style is a combination of blues and rock and was greatly influenced my the Delta and Chicago Blues. This style is has mostly electric based instruments such as , electric guitar, electric bass, but has drums and piano in them. Some Musicians that played in this certain kind of style were, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, and B.B. King
