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The influence of blues on other genres of American and the world's music

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What do Miles Davis, Johnny Cash and AC/DC have in common?

Their songs were inspired by blues music.

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According to Bobby Rush, a blues musician, "If you don't like the blues, you don't like...

your mom.

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What makes people love the blues?

Gritty guitar solos, wailing harmonicas and soulful lyrics about life's hardships.

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Where and when was blues born?

The Mississippi Delta, the late 1800s.

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What two types of African-American songs later developed into what people now call "the blues"?

Spirituals and field work songs.

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What is a "Juke Joint"?

a blues bar (a cheap bar run by African-Americans where the blues is played).

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The earliest form of the blues was also referred to as...

Country blues or Delta blues.

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What are the main musical instruments for Delta blues?

the harmonica and the bottleneck slide guitar.

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How does one play the bottleneck slide guitar?

A musician presses a hard object (a steel bar, a knife or a bottle neck) across multiple strings on a guitar and slides it down the fingerboard.

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Charley Patton, Eddie James "Son" House Jr. and Robert Johnson are...

blues musicians who were among the first to become famous and turn around the Delta region.

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B.B. King and John Lee Hooker were among the blues musicians who started performing in ... to establish their career.

Memphis, Tennessee

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The Great Migration of 1910 - 1917 is...

the mass migration of African-Americans from the South to Northern cities to escape racism.

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Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters developed a new blues sound that was called...

Chicago blues

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The main musical instruments used by Chicago blues performers are:

the electric guitar, the bass guitar, the piano, the drums

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Chicago blues style later influenced such music genre as...

rock ’n’ roll

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What makes blues music sound "bluesy"?

Five-note scales (major and minor pentatonic), the form (the 12-bar blues chord progression) and improvisation.

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