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History of Blues Music

By tugyen1

  • Scott Joplin

    Scott Joplin
    Scott Joplin publishes "Maple Leaf Rag", making ragtime main influence on the Piedmont style of the blues songs.
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    The History of Blues

    The Timeline of Blues Music

  • The First Blues Songs

    The First Blues Songs
    The first blues songs, including W.C. Handy's "Memphis Blues", are published as sheet music.

  • World War I

    World War I
    The United States enters world war I. Military and economic mobilization starts the great migration of African-Americans to the north

  • Crazy Blues

    Crazy Blues
    Mamie Smith Records "Crazy Blues" and it becomes the first blues hit.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaz4Ziw_CfQ

  • Electronic Recording

    Electronic Recording
    Electronic recoding technology is introduced and blues music is available for wider audience.

  • Charley Patton

    Charley Patton
    The early Delta Bluesman Charley Patton recorded first song.

  • Chicago Blues

    Chicago Blues
    The Great Depression in the USA and blacks migrated to the north along the route of Illinois Central Railroad towards Chicago. Chicago Blues was made and it was more powerful.

  • Muddy Waters

    Muddy Waters
    Muddy Waters Makes his first Chicago recordings

  • B.B. King

    B.B. King
    B.B. King has his first major rhythm and blues hit with a version of "Three O'Clock Blues".

  • Muddy Waters at the Newport

    Muddy Waters at the Newport
    Muddy Waters performs at the Newport Jazz Festival to tremendous acclaim.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gNs-29s-0Q

  • Robert Johnson Revival

    Robert Johnson Revival
    John Hammand pushes to have a selection of Robert Johnson's recording reissued on LP by Columbia.

  • Newport Folk Festival

    Newport Folk Festival
    Delta Bluesmen Son House and Skip James perform at the Newport Folk Festival.

  • Muddy Waters and B.B. King performs at Fillmore East

    Muddy Waters and B.B. King performs at Fillmore East
    Muddy water and B.B. King performs at the Fillmore East, a concert venue in the East Village region of New York City, to a predominantly white audience.

  • Robert Johnson's Recordings

    Robert Johnson's Recordings
    Columbia's release of the complete Robert Johnson recordings on CD sells 400,000 albums in six months.

  • "Years of the Blues"

    "Years of the Blues"
    Congress declares 2003 the "Year of the Blues", commemorating the 100th anniversary of W.C. Handy's encounter with an unknown early bluesman at a train station in Mississippi.