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Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues". He is also the actual father of blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry "Mud Morganfield" Williams. A major...
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Chicago blues
The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by taking the basic acoustic guitar and harmonica-based Delta blues and adding electrically amplified guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, and sometimes saxophone...
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- James Cotton,
- Otis Rush,
- Pinetop Perkins,
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- Otis Rush,
Delta blues
The Delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, a region of the United States that stretches from Memphis, Tennessee in the north to Vicksburg, Mississippi in the south, the Mississippi River on...
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- Robert Johnson,
- John Lee Hooker,
- Skip James,
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- John Lee Hooker,
Electric blues
Electric blues is a type of blues music distinguished by the amplification of the guitar, bass guitar, drums, and often the harmonica. Pioneered in the 1930s, it emerged as a genre in Chicago in the 1940s. It was taken up in many areas of America...
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- John Lee Hooker,
- John Mayall,
- Booker T. & the M.G.'s,
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- John Mayall,
Blues-rock
Blues-rock is a hybrid musical genre combining bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles. The core of the blues rock sound is created by the electric guitar, bass guitar and drum kit, with the...
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- Jam band,
- Rock music
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- Heavy metal,
- Progressive rock,
- Jam band
- Progressive rock,
- x Artists:
- The Black Swans,
- Badlands,
- Box Of Frogs,
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- Badlands,
