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During the '80s, several blues revivalists, who primarily...
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Electric blues is blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments. The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T-Bone Walker in the late 1930s and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters in the 1940s.
Listen to the Electric Blues Essentials playlist on Apple Music. 100 Songs. Duration: 6 hours, 13 minutes.
During the '80s, several blues revivalists, who primarily played Delta and Mississippi blues, decided to amplify what essentially was a country form. Structurally, there was no change from the original country blues; it was simply electrified, and not very loudly at that.
Nov 29, 2012 · A new 12-disc compilation traces the history of electric blues from its inauspicious start through its heyday in the 1950s and '60s.
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Jun 23, 2021 · Country blues is a style of blues music that developed in rural America—particularly the Mississippi Delta region—in the early twentieth century. Also called folk blues, it was commonly performed by Black American singers accompanying themselves on acoustic guitar.
In this lesson, we take a journey through the Great Migration to northern cities and into electric blues and early days of rock and roll. This lesson includes video content, lectures, history, geography, curated playlist of music and beautiful downloadable materials.
