what is real blues music? is there a definition? can anyone tell me a good blues song?

Answer 1

It is the Emo of the 1940's...

Answer 2

Forget the text book definition. And no offense to the Stevie Ray Vaughn crowd, but that's not "real" blues music. It's a blues/rock mix. You want real Blues, just turn your ear to guys like Mississippi Fred McDowell (Songs like "Shake Em On Down" and "Write Me A Few Lines"). This guy played slide guitar with a beef rib bone and a pocket knife. Bad asss. You hear his stuff and you won't need a definition. It's a sound that stands out and defines itself . You'll know it without question every time you hear a trace of it in every blues musician you'll ever hear for the rest of your life. Classic Blues.

Answer 3

Blues music has it roots before the 1900's and most likely started as spiritual music in sharecroppers field. Blues as we know it was recorded as early as the 1920's with artists like Son House, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith etc. Electric Blues became popular in the 1950's with artists like Muddy Waters, BB King Fredddie King , Sonny Boy Williamson and the list goes on. As far as definitions there is alot of them. There are alot of excellent Blues songs, pick up a cd with the works of BB King, Freddie King , Muddy Waters, and see the influence that these musicians had on our style of music which we call Blues today, for example Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Allman Brothers etc.

Answer 4

a good blues song: thrill is gone by bb king...last $2...not sure who that is by

heres a definition i found on urbandictionary.com
1. A state of depression which becomes the norm after you've spent your whole life being a slave or a sharecropper or another s*itty occupation.

2. The result of somebody with the aforementioned problem picking up an instrument and singing about it.

3. A specific chord progression that originated in the 19th Century in the American South from black slaves with the problem mentioned in (1) and the talent mentioned in (2).A specific chord progression that originated in the 19th Century in the American South from black slaves with problems

Answer 5

The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. In a word: anything by B.B. King or Stevie Ray Vaughn!

Answer 6

i think a good blues song is Soul Man That is a pretty popular song and blues is :

a. In the earlist 20th century, this southern music borrowed harmonic and structural devices and vocal techniques form work songs and spirituals.

b. This music only needs a single voice accompanied by one or more instruments.

Answer 7

"Rhythm and Blues was and still is a term used for a number of post-war American popular music forms. The term is credited to Jerry Wexler when he was editing the charts in Billboard magazine (1947). The term was used in the chart listings from 1949 onwards and the charts in question encompassed a number of contemporary forms that emerged around that time."

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Answer 8

for example:
howlin' wolf, "smokestack lightning"
robert johnson, "love in vain" or anything else by him
b.b. king, "thrill is gone"
stevie ray vaughan
lucinda williams' early album "ramblin'" has a lot of good, distinctive covers of old blues songs.

those are blues. r&b is not blues, it's a descendent of blues

Answer 9

I think it is music from the Mississippi Delta, lot of people down there had the blues.

Answer 10

My favorite is "Little Wing" by Stevie Ray Vaughn.