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 British blues | | The British blues is a type of blues music that originated in the late 1950s. American
blues musicians like B.B. King and Howlin' Wolf were massively popular in Britain at
the time. Muddy Waters is said to have been the first electric blues player to have
performed in front of British audiences circa 1959, and others like Sonny Boy Williamson
, Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry followed him. British teens began playing the
blues, imitating various styles of American blues. Gradually, a new distinctly British
sound arose by the mid-1960s, called Beat. This form of the blues, and various
derivatives, became massively popular in the US, leading to the British Invasion and British R&B. | | Canadian blues | | "Canadian blues" refers to the blues and blues-related music performed by blues bands
and performers in Canada. In Canada, there are hundreds of local and regionally-based
Canadian blues bands and performers. As well, there is a smaller number of bands or
performers that have achieved national or international prominence. These bands and
performers are part of a broader Canadian "blues scene" that also includes city or regional
blues societies, blues radio shows, and blues festivals. | | Chicago blues | | The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by taking
the basic acoustic guitar and harmonica-based Delta blues and adding electrically amplified guitar amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, and sometimes saxophone, and
making the harmonica louder with a microphone and an instrument amplifier. The music
developed when poor Black workers did the "Great Migration" from the South into the
industrial cities of the North such as Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century | | Piedmont blues | | The Piedmont blues (also known as Piedmont fingerstyle or East Coast blues) is a type of
blues music characterized by a fingerpicking approach on the guitar in which a regular,
alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern supports a syncopated melody using the
treble strings generally picked with the fore-finger, occasionally others. The result is
comparable in sound to piano ragtime or later stride. The Piedmont style is differentiated
from other styles (particularly the Mississippi Delta style) by its ragtime-based rhythms
which lessened its impact on later electric band blues or rock 'n' roll, but it was directly
influential on rockabilly and the folk revival scene. It was an extremely popular form of
African-American dance music for many decades in the first half of the 20th century. | | Detroit blues | | Detroit blues originated when Delta blues performers migrated north from the Mississippi Delta
and Memphis, Tennessee to work in Detroit's industrial plants in the 1920s and 30s.
Typical Detroit blues was very similar to Chicago blues in style. The sound was
distinguished from Delta blues by its use of electric amplified instruments and a more
eclectic assortment of instruments, including the bass guitar and piano. The Detroit scene
was centered on Black Bottom, a Detroit neighborhood. | |
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