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- The first major artist was Big Bill Broonzy, who visited England in the mid-1950s, but who, rather than his electric Chicago blues, played a folk blues set to fit in with British expectations of American blues as a form of folk music.
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One of the first professional blues singers was Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, who claimed to have coined the term blues. Classic female urban or vaudeville blues singers were popular in the 1920s, among them Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Victoria Spivey.
Aug 14, 2012 · Mayall was one of the very first British musicians to fully immerse himself in the Blues. He first learned to play the guitar before switching to the piano, inspired after listening to Meade Lux...
Paul Oliver, probably the world's foremost scholar of the blues, first heard African-American vernacular music during World War II when a friend brought him to listen to black servicemen stationed in England singing work songs they had brought with them from the fields and lumber camps of the Deep South.
Jan 24, 2016 · Peaking through the Devo’s, and Cyndi Laupers (who started as a blues singer), were a wide collection of blues artists inspired by not only the masters but some of the Blues rock of the 60’s and 70’s. This was also the time period when the blues purists started to take control of the niche blues radio and publications.
Mar 25, 2016 · John William “Long John” Baldry was a 6ft 7in mover and shaker who helped ignite the British blues boom in the early 1960s. A pal of The Beatles, Stones, Jack Bruce and others, Baldry was the vocalist on the first British blues album, R&B From The Marquee by Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated.
Mar 18, 2022 · Or, we could discuss guitarist and singer Alexis Korner’s first Blues record, Blues from the Roundhouse Vol. 1, released in 1957. Yet although musicians such as Jagger, Richards, and Korner have become renowned as some of the most influential musicians in British Blues – and of course Rock – they were by no means the first British Blues ...
