I need 2 short, but interesting facts on the Blues?

Question

Please give me 2 short and interesting facts about the blues

Answer 1

Many blues songs were written as they were performed. As the first line is repeated, the singer has time to come up with a rhyming final line.

"Crossroad Blues" (1936) by Robert Johnson

I went to the crossroad
Fell down on my knees
I went to the crossroad
Fell down on my knees
Asked the Lord above "Have mercy, now,
Save poor Bob, if you please

Mmmmm, standin' at the crossroad
I tried to flag a ride
Standin' at the crossroad
I tried to flag a ride
Didn't nobody seem to know me
Everybody pass me by

Answer 2

McKinley Morganfield (AKA Muddy Waters) was discovered on the Stovall Plantation by a man doing a search for American folk music with the Library of Congress.

Albert King, Freddie King and B. B. King are all Blues artists and are NOT related.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Blues music is considered to be one of the first and truest American music forms, deriving itself from code songs, ***** spirituals, African and Carribean rhythms, and work songs.

Blues first went electric in the late 1940s, and is supposedly credited as being Muddy Waters and Little Walter Jacob's invention, as Waters first brought electric guitar and Walter Jacob's harmonica.

Answer 5

Rural southern whites combined blues with anglo folk music to "create" country

Numerous blues songs referred to "rock & roll" (a euphemism for sex) years before the term was applied to a genre of music

P.S. Robert Johnson was somewhat famous/well known prior to his death. John Hammond wanted him as one of the acts at the Spirituals To Swing concert at Carnegie Hall in 1938, but learned he had died a few months before, so he replaced him with Big Bill Broonzy.

Answer 6

Robert Johnson is the subject of a blues myth in which he makes a deal at the croassroads with the devil for blues fame. This fame came long after he died.

But ....

ROBERT JOHNSON'S song about the crossroads is about getting a ride. It is really the lesser known Tommy Johnson who sings a song about making a deal with the devil at the crossroads.

This song, and many other blues songs are influenced by hoodoo practices and beliefs.

Answer 7

In the late 1920s, a country blues singer (Jimmie Rodgers) spun off, using yodeling and singing style that begot Country music.

In the mid-1940s, Jump Blues begot R&B and Rock and Roll (R&B came first).

Answer 8

Blues is credited to the ***** spirituals back in the time of slaves but it originated when they used the African beats that they new and mixed it with the christian music taught to them by the white missionaries that were in their land before the slave trade began.

Answer 9

the note in a scale that makes it "blue" is the sharpened fourth/flat fifth and the typical blues chord progression is I7 IV7 V7

Answer 10

the blues was a spin off of black gospel music and the fore runner of rock and roll.