For instance Blind Lemon Jefferson's "Rising High Water Blues" (1927) tells of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927: Backwater rising, Southern peoples can't make no time The City’s rich historical legacy of music includes a transformational chapter in the history of American jazz and swing music. This was written in 1952 by the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who went on to write hits for Elvis Presley, Ben E. King, and many others. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. A lot of the 1970s-era "outlaw" country music by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings also borrowed from the blues. It uses saxophone or other brass instruments and the guitar in the rhythm section to create a jazzy, up-tempo sound with declamatory vocals. Songs about drugs, revolution and greed that have been used in commercials for sneakers, jeans, fast food, cruises and cars. [83] Dallas-born T-Bone Walker, who is often associated with the California blues style,[84] performed a successful transition from the early urban blues à la Lonnie Johnson and Leroy Carr to the jump blues style and dominated the blues-jazz scene at Los Angeles during the 1940s. Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me, When Lindsay was in college he got his own smoking pit and began to develop barbecue recipes while listening to the blues. Bohlman, Philip V. (1999). Singers such as Blind Willie McTell and Blind Boy Fuller performed in the southeastern "delicate and lyrical" Piedmont blues tradition, which used an elaborate ragtime-based fingerpicking guitar technique. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues rock developed, which blended blues styles with rock music. A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs. However, beginning in the 1990s, digital multitrack recording and other technological advances and new marketing strategies including video clip production increased costs, challenging the spontaneity and improvisation that are an important component of blues music. Many elements, such as the call-and-response format and the use of blue notes, can be traced back to the music of Africa. Blues songs with sexually explicit lyrics were known as dirty blues. Buchana, Ms. Jody, Shirley Brown, and dozens of others. They are labeled by Roman numbers referring to the degrees of the progression. [73], The lively Memphis blues style, which developed in the 1920s and 1930s near Memphis, Tennessee, was influenced by jug bands such as the Memphis Jug Band or the Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers. While the style is often associated with solo piano, boogie-woogie was also used to accompany singers and, as a solo part, in bands and small combos. [8], In 1827, it was in the sense of a sad state of mind that John James Audubon wrote to his wife that he "had the blues". His producer, Ralph Bass, changed the title to "K.C. B. Recorded blues and country music can be found as far back as the 1920s, when the record industry created the marketing categories "race music" and "hillbilly music" to sell music by blacks for blacks and by whites for whites, respectively. Country blues performers often improvised, either without accompaniment or with only a banjo or guitar. Characteristic of the blues since its Afro-American origins, the shuffles played a central role in swing music. ; Godrich, John (1970). Although she admitted being unable to describe the manner of singing she heard, Forten wrote that the songs "can't be sung without a full heart and a troubled spirit", conditions that have inspired countless blues songs.[10]. [9], The phrase "the blues" was written by Charlotte Forten, then aged 25, in her diary on December 14, 1862. Blues guitarist and vocalist Keb' Mo' performed his blues rendition of "America, the Beautiful" in 2006 to close out the final season of the television series The West Wing. 5022 Rosewood Dr. Roeland Park, KS 66205. Here are some of the best spots to check out in town for some good old fashioned blues … [85], The transition from country blues to urban blues that began in the 1920s was driven by the successive waves of economic crisis and booms that led many rural blacks to move to urban areas, in a movement known as the Great Migration. [42][43] African-American singers voiced his or her "personal woes in a world of harsh reality: a lost love, the cruelty of police officers, oppression at the hands of white folk, [and] hard times". B. [93] After Phillips discovered Elvis Presley in 1954, the Sun label turned to the rapidly expanding white audience and started recording mostly rock 'n' roll.[94]. [4] The phrase blue devils may also have been derived from Britain in the 1600s, when the term referred to the "intense visual hallucinations that can accompany severe alcohol withdrawal". At a 7:4 ratio, it is not close to any interval on the conventional Western diatonic scale. Yet, if one looks back further, Arnold also started out singing bluesy songs like 'I'll Hold You in My Heart'. He became a popular and prolific composer, and billed himself as the "Father of the Blues"; however, his compositions can be described as a fusion of blues with ragtime and jazz, a merger facilitated using the Cuban habanera rhythm that had long been a part of ragtime;[20][68] Handy's signature work was the "Saint Louis Blues". The (Mississippi) Delta blues was a rootsy sparse style with passionate vocals accompanied by slide guitar. Lovin'," and the song went nowhere (the song's co-writer Mike Stoller said that the title change likely tanked the song). Garofalo, p. 44. Carr accompanied himself on the piano with Scrapper Blackwell on guitar, a format that continued well into the 1950s with artists such as Charles Brown and even Nat "King" Cole.[70]. When Jerry Lee Lewis returned to country after the decline of 1950s style rock and roll, he sang his country with a blues feel and often included blues standards on his albums. Often termed "soul blues" or "Southern soul", the music at the heart of this movement was given new life by the unexpected success of two particular recordings on the Jackson-based Malaco label:[114] Z. Some labels are famous for rediscovering and remastering blues rarities, including Arhoolie Records, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (heir of Folkways Records), and Yazoo Records (Shanachie Records).[119]. The blues originated as a rural Black vocal music with a style improvised to the rhythms of work. (Parentheticals in Garofalo.). John Lee Hooker's blues is more "personal", based on Hooker's deep rough voice accompanied by a single electric guitar. Early blues frequently took the form of a loose narrative, often relating the racial discrimination and other challenges experienced by African-Americans. Records. [Chorus] She done moved to Kansas City. Major artists of the Texas style are Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Fabulous Thunderbirds (led by harmonica player and singer-songwriter Kim Wilson), and ZZ Top. [54], No specific African musical form can be identified as the single direct ancestor of the blues. [102], By the late 1950s, the swamp blues genre developed near Baton Rouge, with performers such as Lightnin' Slim,[103] Slim Harpo,[104] Sam Myers and Jerry McCain around the producer J. D. "Jay" Miller and the Excello label. Rockabillies were also said to be 12-bar blues played with a bluegrass beat. His songs, originally distributed only in Europe,[110] commented on political issues such as racism or Vietnam War issues, which was unusual for this period. Musically, spirituals were a descendant of New England choral traditions, and in particular of Isaac Watts's hymns, mixed with African rhythms and call-and-response forms. [20] However, the Christian influence was far more obvious. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current structure became standard: the AAB pattern, consisting of a line sung over the four first bars, its repetition over the next four, and then a longer concluding line over the last bars. In the history of Kansas City music, blues formed the basic vocabulary for KC-style jazz. Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller) and Sonny Terry are well known harmonica (called "harp" by blues musicians) players of the early Chicago blues scene. [131] He also participated in the rendition of compilations of major blues artists in a series of high-quality CDs. I was looking for this women. After World War II, new styles of electric blues became popular in cities such as Chicago,[87] Memphis,[88] Detroit[89][90] and St. Louis. The first appearance of the blues is often dated to after the ending of slavery and, later, the development of juke joints. It is associated with the newly acquired freedom of the former slaves. Lyrical themes that frequently appeared in prewar blues, such as economic depression, farming, devils, gambling, magic, floods and drought, were less common in postwar blues.[19]. Morales attributed this claim to. [13] This melancholy has led to the suggestion of an Igbo origin for blues because of the reputation the Igbo had throughout plantations in the Americas for their melancholic music and outlook on life when they were enslaved.[14][15]. [77] Ma Rainey, the "Mother of Blues", and Bessie Smith each "[sang] around center tones, perhaps in order to project her voice more easily to the back of a room". To read more click here. Mamie Smith, more a vaudeville performer than a blues artist, was the first African American to record a blues song in 1920; her second record, "Crazy Blues", sold 75,000 copies in its first month. Early country bluesmen such as Skip James, Charley Patton, Georgia Tom Dorsey played country and urban blues and had influences from spiritual singing. Charles Peabody mentioned the appearance of blues music at Clarksdale, Mississippi, and Gate Thomas reported similar songs in southern Texas around 1901–1902. [27] Blues seven chords add to the harmonic chord a note with a frequency in a 7:4 ratio to the fundamental note. Dick Waterman and the blues festivals he organized in Europe played a major role in propagating blues music abroad. [128] Jimmie Rodgers, Moon Mullican, Bob Wills, Bill Monroe and Hank Williams have all described themselves as blues singers and their music has a blues feel that is different, at first glance at least, from the later country pop of artists like Eddy Arnold. John Lee Hooker blended his blues style with rock elements and playing with younger white musicians, creating a musical style that can be heard on the 1971 album Endless Boogie. Leiber and Stoller wrote this around the same time they composed ". Bebop classics, such as Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time", used the blues form with the pentatonic scale and blue notes. A founding member of the band War, Harold gives a first-person account of one of the most important periods in music history. They call Lucille. Much of the time, some or all of these chords are played in the harmonic seventh (7th) form. Tennessee-born Bobby "Blue" Bland, like B. She got her hands on a Big Mama Thornton cd at age six-teen, and it changed her plans for her life; she went from studying opera to blues to jazz but always comes back to the sultry, belty blues. The 1939 KC Blues are considered the 12th best team in minor league history. Other harp players such as Big Walter Horton were also influential. In addition to Robert Johnson, influential performers of this style included his predecessors Charley Patton and Son House. Songs from this genre include "Scratch my Back", "She's Tough" and "I'm a King Bee". Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch are also an essential part of the sound. In the 1930s, Lomax and his son Alan made a large number of non-commercial blues recordings that testify to the huge variety of proto-blues styles, such as field hollers and ring shouts. With the help of Kansas City's Winston Holmes Music Store, which previously concentrated on blues records, the orchestra arranged a recording session in Chicago with the Okeh Recording Company. In the 1920s, the blues became a major element of African American and American popular music, reaching white audiences via Handy's arrangements and the classic female blues performers. [28] For convenience or by necessity it is often approximated by a minor seventh interval or a dominant seventh chord. With the aid of Kansas City’s Winston Holmes Music Store, which formerly focused on blues records, the orchestra arranged a recording session in Chicago with the Okeh Recording Company. Cain talks about the divine inspirations for "Don't Stop Believin'" and "Faithfully.". The band formed also began a successful tour under the Blues Brothers marquee. During the early 1950s, the dominating Chicago labels were challenged by Sam Phillips' Sun Records company in Memphis, which recorded B. Started down Beale. [11] Two of the first published blues songs, "Dallas Blues" (1912) and "Saint Louis Blues" (1914), were 12-bar blues with the AAB lyric structure. Black and white musicians shared the same repertoire and thought of themselves as "songsters" rather than blues musicians. An important label of this era was the Chicago-based Bluebird Records. And I can't get no hearing from that Memphis girl of mine, Although the blues gained an association with misery and oppression, the lyrics could also be humorous and raunchy:[16], Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me, Dorsey helped to popularize Gospel music. B. Lenoir from the Chicago blues movement in the 1950s recorded several LPs using acoustic guitar, sometimes accompanied by Willie Dixon on the acoustic bass or drums. [30] The simplest shuffles, which were the clearest signature of the R&B wave that started in the mid-1940s,[31] were a three-note riff on the bass strings of the guitar. In 1963, LeRoi Jones, later known as Amiri Baraka, was the first to write a book on the social history of the blues in Blues People: The Negro Music in White America. Stage & Screen, Classical, Film Score, Original Score, Soundtracks, TV Soundtracks, Film Music Ben Webster 1930s - 1970s One blues rock performer, Jimi Hendrix, was a rarity in his field at the time: a black man who played psychedelic rock. In the 1950s, blues had a huge influence on mainstream American popular music. "Hound Dog", with its unmodified 12-bar structure (in both harmony and lyrics) and a melody centered on flatted third of the tonic (and flatted seventh of the subdominant), is a blues song transformed into a rock and roll song. in Kansas City, KS. Call-and-response shouts were an early form of blues-like music; they were a "functional expression ... style without accompaniment or harmony and unbounded by the formality of any particular musical structure". That early rhythm evolved and gave birth to the blues, and eventually to Kansas City jazz, a kind of blues that jumps with a … Regional styles of country blues varied widely in the early 20th century. The original "Enter Sandman" lyric was about crib death, with the "sandman" killing a baby. [25] With the popularity of early performers, such as Bessie Smith, use of the twelve-bar blues spread across the music industry during the 1920s and 30s. John Lee Hooker's popularity was revived with the album The Healer in 1989. [65], The origins of the blues are closely related to the religious music of Afro-American community, the spirituals. Hosted by President Obama and Mrs. Obama, the show featured performances by B.B. Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" was published in 1912; W.C. [99] The "West Side sound" had strong rhythmic support from a rhythm guitar, bass guitar and drums and as perfected by Guy, Freddie King, Magic Slim and Luther Allison was dominated by amplified electric lead guitar. [105], By the beginning of the 1960s, genres influenced by African American music such as rock and roll and soul were part of mainstream popular music. In America, the song has charted five times: The Beatles recorded a version of this song with Little Richard's "Hey, Hey, Hey" in 1964. The first publication of blues sheet music was in 1908. The first publication of blues sheet music may have been "I Got the Blues", published by New Orleans musician Antonio Maggio in 1908 and described as "the earliest published composition known to link the condition of having the blues to the musical form that would become popularly known as 'the blues. The early African American rock musicians retained the sexual themes and innuendos of blues music: "Got a gal named Sue, knows just what to do" ("Tutti Frutti", Little Richard) or "See the girl with the red dress on, She can do the Birdland all night long" ("What'd I Say", Ray Charles). Gordon's successor at the library was John Lomax. [120] Prominent jazz, folk or rock performers, such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and Bob Dylan have performed significant blues recordings. Joe Turner had a tremendous voice and a talent for improvising lyrics. and the whole world let them peoples go down there free. The British and blues musicians of the early 1960s inspired a number of American blues rock fusion performers, including the Doors, Canned Heat, the early Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, The J. Geils Band, Ry Cooder, and the Allman Brothers Band. W.C. As the recording industry grew, country blues performers like Bo Carter, Jimmie Rodgers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lonnie Johnson, Tampa Red and Blind Blake became more popular in the African American community. His album Alabama Blues contained a song with the following lyric: I never will go back to Alabama, that is not the place for me (2x) Since the 1980s there has been a resurgence of interest in the blues among a certain part of the African-American population, particularly around Jackson, Mississippi and other deep South regions. The last chord is the dominant (V) turnaround, marking the transition to the beginning of the next progression. Another development in this period was big band blues. Hip-hop, R&B, the Blues and Jazz all find their roots in the spirituals, sorrow songs, and gospels of the church. [12] The lines are often sung following a pattern closer to rhythmic talk than to a melody. The origins of spirituals go back much further than the blues, usually dating back to the middle of the 18th century, when the slaves were Christianized and began to sing and play Christian hymns, in particular those of Isaac Watts, which were very popular. [56], The Diddley bow (a homemade one-stringed instrument found in parts of the American South in the early twentieth century) and the banjo are African-derived instruments that may have helped in the transfer of African performance techniques into the early blues instrumental vocabulary. [5] By the 1800s in the United States, the term blues was associated with drinking alcohol, a meaning which survives in the phrase blue law, which prohibits the sale of alcohol on Sunday. But it was African American musicians, many associated with Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra and inspired by blues and ragtime traditions, that developed the Kansas City style—featuring complex rhythms, carefully restrained drum beats, and riffs in the late 1920s and 1930s. Kenny Loggins in Caddyshack? In the 1950s, soul music by Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and James Brown used gospel and blues music elements. In 1986 the album Strong Persuader announced Robert Cray as a major blues artist. "Gradually, instrumental and harmonic accompaniment were added, reflecting increasing cross-cultural contact." In the ’50s and early ’60s the opportunity to hear blues and jazz music came from AM radio stations including KPRS in Kansas City, and a Little Rock, Arkansas radio station that featured all the blues greats of the time. [115] In the 1980s and 1990s, blues publications such as Living Blues and Blues Revue were launched, major cities began forming blues societies, outdoor blues festivals became more common, and[116] more nightclubs and venues for blues emerged. Boogie-woogie was pioneered by the Chicago-based Jimmy Yancey and the Boogie-Woogie Trio (Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis). [36], Reports of blues music in southern Texas and the Deep South were written at the dawn of the 20th century. In 2003, Martin Scorsese made significant efforts to promote the blues to a larger audience. This marketing strategy reinforced trends in urban blues music such as the use of electric instruments and amplification and the generalization of the blues beat, the blues shuffle, which became ubiquitous in rhythm and blues (R&B). The Mission: Impossible theme is in 5/4 time. Handy.[67]. [5] As time went on, the phrase lost the reference to devils, and it came to mean a state of agitation or depression. [44] The first appearance of the blues is usually dated after the Emancipation Act of 1863,[35] between 1860s and 1890s,[2] a period that coincides with post-emancipation and later, the establishment of juke joints as places where blacks went to listen to music, dance, or gamble after a hard day's work. The blues evolved from informal performances in bars to entertainment in theaters. "In this history, Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix range from ragtime to bebop and from Bennie Moten to Charlie Parker to capture the golden age of Kansas City jazz. This commercial stream had important consequences for blues music, which, together with jazz and gospel music, became a component of R&B.[86]. Gospel music was nevertheless using musical forms that were compatible with Christian hymns and therefore less marked by the blues form than its secular counterpart. Chicago became a center for electric blues from 1948 on, when Muddy Waters recorded his first success, "I Can't Be Satisfied". Leiber came up with a scenario where a woman is driving the singer crazy ("Well, if I don't leave that woman I know I'm gonna die"), so he heads for Kansas City, looking to find some of the "crazy little women" they have there. Handy was the first to popularize blues-influenced music among non-black Americans. The lyrics generally end on the last beat of the tenth bar or the first beat of the 11th bar, and the final two bars are given to the instrumentalist as a break; the harmony of this two-bar break, the turnaround, can be extremely complex, sometimes consisting of single notes that defy analysis in terms of chords. Spirituals or religious chants in the African-American community are much better documented than the "low-down" blues. [39] A record of blues music as it existed before 1920 can also be found in the recordings of artists such as Lead Belly[40] and Henry Thomas. [59] However, in the 1920s, when country blues began to be recorded, the use of the banjo in blues music was quite marginal and limited to individuals such as Papa Charlie Jackson and later Gus Cannon. "Kansas City" is a rhythm and blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952. The first Stevie Ray Vaughan recording Texas Flood was released in 1983, and the Texas-based guitarist exploded onto the international stage. The blues was highlighted in Season 2012, Episode 1 of "In Performance at The White House", entitled "Red, White and Blues". [38], Other recordings that are still available were made in 1924 by Lawrence Gellert. Before World War II, the boundaries between blues and jazz were less clear. The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll, is characterized by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. The outlaw country icon talks about the spiritual element of his songwriting and his Bob Dylan mention. [132], This article is about the music genre. (2011). Welding, Peter; Brown, Toby, eds. Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris and Lyle Lovett are just a few of the artists who have looked to Clark for insightful, intelligent songs. [69] The slide guitar became an important part of the Delta blues. Katy Perry's breakout hit "I Kissed A Girl" was surprising to those familiar with her past: her parents were pastors and she started off singing Christian music. Garofalo, pp. The little-recorded Robert Johnson[71] combined elements of urban and rural blues. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. Kansas City Blues Lyrics. This page was last edited on 14 May 2021, at 08:28. Though not directly influenced by boogie woogie, his "groovy" style is sometimes called "guitar boogie". • Kansas City Blues (American Association), a 1902–54 minor-league baseball team King introduced a sophisticated style of guitar soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric blues guitarists. Perhaps the most visible example of the blues style of music in the late 20th century came in 1980, when Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi released the film The Blues Brothers. The blues women thus effected changes in other types of popular singing that had spin-offs in jazz, Broadway musicals, torch songs of the 1930s and 1940s, gospel, rhythm and blues, and eventually rock and roll. [55] However the call-and-response format can be traced back to the music of Africa. UNESCO City of Music since 2017 Kansas City is the home of Kansas City swing, jazz and blues. Usually jazz had harmonic structures stemming from brass bands, whereas blues had blues forms such as the 12-bar blues. For other uses, see, "Blues singing is about emotion. Blues forms are used in the theme to the televised Batman, teen idol Fabian Forte's hit, "Turn Me Loose", country music star Jimmie Rodgers' music, and guitarist/vocalist Tracy Chapman's hit "Give Me One Reason". [18] Tampa Red's classic "Tight Like That" (1928) is a sly wordplay with the double meaning of being "tight" with someone coupled with a more salacious physical familiarity. The audience for both blues and jazz split, and the border between blues and jazz became more defined. The film earned Mahal a Grammy nomination for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture and a BAFTA nomination. [105] Blues performers explored a range of musical genres, as can be seen, for example, from the broad array of nominees of the yearly Blues Music Awards, previously named W.C. 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Show organizers have signed the legendary Bo Diddley to headline the popular Kansas City event, scheduled for Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 2-3 at The Woodlands, I-435 and Leavenworth Rd. The lyrical content became slightly simpler in postwar blues, which tended to focus on relationship woes or sexual worries. The first recording by an African American singer was Mamie Smith's 1920 rendition of Perry Bradford's "Crazy Blues". Although blues (as it is now known) can be seen as a musical style based on both European harmonic structure and the African call-and-response tradition that transformed into an interplay of voice and guitar,[50][51] the blues form itself bears no resemblance to the melodic styles of the West African griots. On September 23, 1923, the Bennie Moten Orchestra became the first Kansas City band to make a phonograph recording of its tunes. Chicago blues also influenced Louisiana's zydeco music,[96] with Clifton Chenier[97] using blues accents. 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