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Blues - the Mother of All Modern Music

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