Know the Music Blues

The 19th century. In the dark and stuffy room, in a shelter the slaves. There was a song full of moans from feeling terkukung, which meets the atmosphere of American farmland are cold, arrogant and boring. Oral Tradition (singing without music) of the African slave origin, gradually experienced akulturisasi with European traditional music, and spawned a new genre, called the blues.

The name of the blues was born of the term blue is always connoted with feelings of depression and melancholia. End of the 19th century, the blues began to dominate in the southern suburb of America. New in 1910, officially adopted the term blues.

The game guitar on blues music, popular in the 20th century. Previously, blues musicians often use the banjo for many years, and blues music continues to grow.Even in every U.S. region, gave birth to the blues music of different colors such as Chicago blues (Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor), Delta Blues (Robert Lockwood Jr.), East Cost Blues (John Jackson) and Texas Blues (Mike Morgan & The Crawl).

The development of technology in musical instruments, then gave birth to a new color like electric blues, electric blues Harmony, modern acoustic blues, modern electric blues.
Modern electric blues is the most popular subgenre of the blues today. From the genre, the blues was born tens figure like BB King, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hocker, Jhony Winter, Koko Taylor, Robert Cray, Taj Mahal, Dave Hole, Tinsley Ellis Freddie King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

Modern electeric blues emerged in the early decades of the '60s, when blues music fame declined and the U.S. major record companies reluctant to hire them. Blues bands from the UK and then fill in the gaps. British musicians like Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, John Mayal and Bluesbreaker eventually give a new atmosphere for the American blues musician. This sparked the British Invasion blues musicians from the U.S. to offer new colors of blues music.

Blues music is real music, man and any real problem. Really real and rough, they also play what they want to play without needing a lot of preparation and not artificial.Maybe that's one reason that makes a Johnny Winter is crazy about the blue
Guitarist Jimi Hendrix include blues figure who influenced many other musicians.Actually this is more to the music of Jimi hard rock flow, through the songs - songs like Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, and Crosstown Traffic. But Jimi is also known by numbers such as red house blues and voodoo child.

With a strange guitar technique, Jimi became a pioneer in the electric blues that dominated a very impressive sound, which then attract the attention of other guitarists to further explore sound.

After the era of the emergence of Jimi Hendrix, many pop rock blues musicians such as the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tinsley Ellis, Taj Mahal and the younger generation there is Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

Musical journey did not stop there, and its development continues to unfold. However, contemporary blues certainly more people who know and enjoy it. Apart from that, everyone knows that so much of music today is born of the blues as its parent contribution