Music Gives Me the Blues

2010. Jim Crows Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945. Louisina State University 6. Press Max Jones review of “Rolling Stone Blues” b/w “Walkin’ Blues” by Muddy Waters. Melody maker.

½ (Winter-Spring, 1985): pp. 14-23. Web 23 March 2012. Kopp, ED. “A Brief History of the Blues.” Web 16 August 2005. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php “That Rhythm…Those Blues."

Although it wasn’t an instant start, Blues and Jazz are an evolution and compilation of spiritual songs, hymns, ragtime, gospel music and work songs of slaves. Mississippi- a birth place of the blues music. Blues were born in the Mississippi Delta as a call-and response lyrical pattern “sorrow” slave songs and haunting “field hollers” (Wilson). First introduction of blues was in 1912 when a black composer W.C. Andy recorded “The Memphis Blues” which later became popular in 1914. But it was in the twenties, that nation got the craze of blues when singers like Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith recorded classic blues with jazz bands.

Retrieved May 28, 2014, from http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/rhythm-and-blues-music-overview. Stone, A. (2008, January 1). History and Evolution of Rhythm and Blues. .

B. King had his first hit song ,"3 O'clock Blues.'' The song was so successful, record producers signed the young man from his Memphis, Tenn. home and send him to New York City, where he shortened his stage name from Beale Street Blues Boy to "B.B.'' 	Over the past forty years, King has been called the master of blue using his many styles of gospel, jazz, and blues, which has influenced all blues and rock guitarists.

27 Nov. 2000. Availabl WWW: http://www.trombone-usa.com/jazz_styles.htm. "Ragtime." Jazz History 2000: n. pag. Online.

Apr.-May 2014. Goldman, Suzy B. "James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues": A Message in Music." Negro American Literature Forum 3rd ser. 8 (1974): 231-33.

Blues had its most brilliant years in America by the end of WWI. The American troops brought the Blues home with them, which they learned from the Southern Whites who had been exposed to the blues. After WWII, Blues had a different experience by the well-known Blues musicians as B.B. King and Buddy Guy by “amplifying guitar” and “emphasized drums”; thus created intensified sounds in Blues, the collection of which later called to be the “Electric Blues”. (Herman) This kind of Blues had a great deal of resemblance to Jazz music due to the increased drum beats.

(Erlewine 2014) Recreating a time in American music history that rivaled blues greatest blue musicians of the 1940’s and 50’s. Veteran blues artists Etta James, B.B. King and Buddy Guy directly attributed the mid-'80s revival of their previously ebbing careers to Stevie Ray. Stevie Ray played the guitar with the passion of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie often paid homage to his inspiration by recording covers of music legend Jimi Hendrix. Third Rock from the Sun and At the end of Stevie’s life the Hendrix song Voodoo Chile (Slight return) were signature songs that considered iconic to Stevie Ray Vaughan’s live music performance.

"Speakeasies, Flappers & Red Hot Jazz: Music of the Prohibition." riverwalk.jazz.stanford.edu. Stanford University, 3 Feb. 2005: page. n. 1-2.Web. 13 Apr.