Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that most often follows a twelve-bar structure. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, praise songs, field hollers, rhymed Scots-Irish narrative ballads, shouts, and chants.
The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of the blues' West African pedigree.
The blues influenced later American and Western popular music, as it became part of the genres of ragtime, jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, hip-hop, and pop songs.
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The Bluesy Difference - Blues and rockin' R&B - from Amsterdam - Best latest releases and small independents.
Chittlin Circuit Radio
The Chittlin Circuit is where the Blues and R&B all began, and is alive and well right here
Houndog Radio
Originating from Stone Mountain Georgia. We present a mix of country bluegrass classic rockand blues
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