The history of blues

By clamb4
  • minstrel shows gain popularity

    minstrel shows gain popularity

    these where shows that everyone would go see from across the world
  • Period: to

    from the beggining to the end

  • slave songs published

    slave songs published

    These songs where written and published during the slave era
  • maple leaf rag published

    maple leaf rag published

    This was the most popular song in the time
  • black music first recorded

    black music first recorded

    this was the time for black music
  • Bluesman discovered

    Bluesman discovered

    W.C Handy sees a bluesman playing guitar in a train station
  • Folk blues Debuts

    Folk blues Debuts

    this is where country music was born
  • First folk blues records

    First folk blues records

    The first male folk blues records, featuring singers Papa Charlie Jackson and Daddy Stovepipe, are issued.
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression

    signaling the beginning of the Great Depression in the United States. Amid widespread economic ruin, sales of records and phonographs plummet, crippling the recording industry.

  • Jump blues

    Jump blues was pioneered by Louis Jordan

  • Electric guitar introduced

    The modern instrument, first developed by musician George Beauchamp

  • Muddy waters and chicago blues

    Muddy Waters makes his first Chicago recordings, beginning his tenure as the dominant figure in the Chicago blues and a key link between the Mississippi Delta and the urban styles.
  • Elvis Debuts

    Elvis Debuts

    Elvis Presley makes his recording debut on Sun Records with a version of Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's "That's All Right."

  • The country blues

    Samuel Charters publishes The Country Blues, fueling the blues element of the folk music revival.
  • Year of blues

    Year of blues

    Congress declares 2003 the "Year of the Blues,"