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The guitarist–or pianist, but most often a guitarist–will play a series of three chords in a progression that lasts for 12 bars before the music cycles back to the beginning. Musicians call this THE 12 BAR BLUES. [Okay, this is hard to explain in words. Let this guy’s video introduce you to the basic 12 bar blues, as well as the 1-4-5 (I ...
Hi there, I know kids are at home and stuck there during this time. I thought it might be fun to write a fun little blues song for kids to sing a long and l...
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Blues came to Britain from the 1930s onwards. Seamen brought records to British ports. During the Second World War and in the Cold War GIs brought them to Britain. During the 1950s Blues was popular with the British Jazz fans ( Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith and the blues influenced Boogie-woogie of Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller). Also British labe...
The Rolling Stones 1965Alexis Korner 1968Eric ClaptonJohn MayallGeorgie Fame, a major figure of the British R&B movement, in 1968Well this section could have been VERY long so I’ve chosen just a handful of songs. Most of the songs listed are in the 12 bar blues format. 12. WC Handy (known as the “father of the blues”) – Memphis Blues. 13. WC Handy performing St Louis Blues. 14. Mamie Smith singing the Harlem Blues. 15.
Blues Music For Kids. The Blues usually deals with extremely adult themes. Undercurrents of sexual imagery are often close to the surface in Blues songs dealing with desire, love and loss in human relationships. Drugs, drinking, and violence are common themes too, and not suitable for young and tender ears. However, that doesn't mean that even ...
British blues is a form of music derived from American blues that originated in the late 1950s, and reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s. In Britain, blues developed a distinctive and influential style dominated by electric guitar, and made international stars of several proponents of the genre, including the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Yardbirds, Eric Clapton ...
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The British style has perhaps the closest ties to rock music as opposed to rock & roll, a distinct stylistic descendant of the 1950s. It is this constant shift between preserving older styles and mainstreaming it into the pop marketplace that is the hallmark of British blues.
