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What do Miles Davis, Johnny Cash and AC/DC have in common?
Their songs were inspired by blues music.
According to Bobby Rush, a blues musician, "If you don't like the blues, you don't like...
your mom.
What makes people love the blues?
Gritty guitar solos, wailing harmonicas and soulful lyrics about life's hardships.
Where and when was blues born?
The Mississippi Delta, the late 1800s.
What two types of African-American songs later developed into what people now call "the blues"?
Spirituals and field work songs.
What is a "Juke Joint"?
a blues bar (a cheap bar run by African-Americans where the blues is played).
The earliest form of the blues was also referred to as...
Country blues or Delta blues.
What are the main musical instruments for Delta blues?
the harmonica and the bottleneck slide guitar.
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.
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.
B.B. King and John Lee Hooker were among the blues musicians who started performing in ... to establish their career.
Memphis, Tennessee
The Great Migration of 1910 - 1917 is...
the mass migration of African-Americans from the South to Northern cities to escape racism.
Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters developed a new blues sound that was called...
Chicago blues
The main musical instruments used by Chicago blues performers are:
the electric guitar, the bass guitar, the piano, the drums
Chicago blues style later influenced such music genre as...
rock ’n’ roll
What makes blues music sound "bluesy"?
Five-note scales (major and minor pentatonic), the form (the 12-bar blues chord progression) and improvisation.
What is the typical "bluesy" lyrical structure pattern?
AAB lyrical structure, where the first line is often repeated in the second one, and the third line answers.
What inspired the lyrical structure of a typical blues song?
a call-and-response style of African-American spirituals and work songs.
Figure out what is the second line of a blues song, if the first one is as follows: "I'm gonna get up in the mornin', I believe I'll dust my broom""
"I'm gonna get up in the mornin', I believe I'll dust my broom""
What is the basic theme of blues song lyrics?
real life experience (good and bad).
Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington are...
jazz musicians influenced by the blues.
What style of music is sometimes referred to as "the blues with the backbeat"?
rock ’n’ roll
Who was the original performer of a blues song "Hound Dog" later recorded by Elvis Presley?
Big Mama Thornton
Country music is the result of mixing blues music with...
flok music brought to the USA by European immigrants.
Among the rock, pop, heavy metal and country musicians inspired and influenced by the blues there are...
Chuck Berry, the Beatles, Cream, The White Stripes, AC/DC, Johnny Cash


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