• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
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Topic: BLUES GOD'S & STYLES

1) Who is considered as the most important BLUES musician, with a major influence on a lot of artists.
Did it start with Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters....
2) WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN:
- Chicago Blues
- St Louis blues
- Memphis
- New Orleans
What can be considered as MISSISIPI delta blues, in fact WHAT IS THIS KIND OF BLUES.

SO = EVOLUTION OF BLUES, WHERE DID IT START, WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT STYLES.
WHO WAS OR WERE THE MOST INFLUENCED EXAMPLE FOR TODAY'S BLUES

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- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
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  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
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Re: BLUES GOD'S & STYLES

IS YOUR BLUES KNOWLEDGE GONE?

[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]

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  • From: Pico Rivera, Calif. U.S.A.
  • Registered: 2006-10-26
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Re: BLUES GOD'S & STYLES

gitaardocphil wrote:

1) Who is considered as the most important BLUES musician, with a major influence on a lot of artists.
Did it start with Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters....
2) WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN:
- Chicago Blues
- St Louis blues
- Memphis
- New Orleans
What can be considered as MISSISIPI delta blues, in fact WHAT IS THIS KIND OF BLUES.

SO = EVOLUTION OF BLUES, WHERE DID IT START, WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT STYLES.
WHO WAS OR WERE THE MOST INFLUENCED EXAMPLE FOR TODAY'S BLUES

Phil,

The majority of persons will say that Robert Johnson started the new blues sound, then Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Hubert Sumlin, B.B. Albert & Freddy King, Buddy Guy and Jimmy Reed. It was Stevie Ray Vaughn that brought the blues to the mainstream audience. Really cannot define the different styles blues that you mentioned above with exception of the Delta Blues slow 4/4 with slide.  Todays blues slingers would be Jimmy Vaughan, Robert Cray, Kenny Wayne Sheppard, Johnny Lang, Tommy Castro and of course Eric Clapton.

Bootlegger.

  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Re: BLUES GOD'S & STYLES

Boot, I agree, but I don't have ONE CLUE about the difference between Chicago blues and St Louis, over Memphis to New Orleans and TEXAS.
SRV was maybe the BIG MAN who spread the word, the blues, I kust remember that this kind of music was music of the devil in the "conservative and racist eyes." speaking end 50ties, and 60ties. In fact British sailors took that music home, and a lot of British FRESH and NEW BANDS: The YARDBIRDS are considered as the band who played "imported blues" and sending it back to the States. Also JOHN MAYALL and the BLUEBREAKERS, that man is responsable for a few of the most important guitar players we ever known. Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Peter Green (Fleetwood Mc), Mick Taylor and whatever they played, PSYCHEDELIC music, they all returned back to the blues. I surfed a long time yesterday and found a lot about blues. BUT never the different styles, maybe it's my lucky day, today

[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]

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