Tracing the blues from its African roots among the slaves who were brought to this country and the West Indies, he stressed the close relationship between the early jazz forms and the music of the Negro churches.

All are commonly seen and heard in popular music genres, including rock, blues, country, and folk.

Until the 1960s, the predominant forms of music played on the flat-top, steel-string guitar remained relatively stable and included acoustic blues, country, bluegrass, folk, and several genres of rock.

The concept of playing solo steel-string guitar in a concert setting was introduced in the early 1960s by such performers as Davey Graham and John Fahey, who used country blues fingerpicking techniques to compose original compositions with structures somewhat like European classical music.

A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.

In 1961, Korner and Davies formed Blues Incorporated, initially a loose-knit group of musicians with a shared love of electric blues and R & B music.

Although he himself was a blues purist, Korner criticised better-known British blues musicians during the blues boom of the late 1960s for their blind adherence to Chicago blues, as if the music came in no other form.

Korner also wrote about blues for the music papers, and continued to maintain his own career as a blues artist, especially in Europe.

This is a tour of American music — jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley ballads, Country Swing — that evokes the sprawl, fatalism and subversive humor of Dylan's sacred text, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the pre-rock voicings of Hank Williams, Charley Patton and Johnnie Ray, among others, and the ultradry humor of Groucho Marx.

The bass guitar is used in many styles of music including rock, metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, gospel, blues, and jazz.

Along with Elvis and others, Holly made rock and roll, with its roots in rockabilly country music and blues-inspired rhythm and blues music, more popular among a broad white audience.

Jefferson's music is uninhibited and represented the classic sounds of everyday life from a honky-tonk to a country picnic to street corner blues to work in the burgeoning oil fields, a reflection too of his interest in mechanical things.

A further development was the evolution of the blues ballad, which mixed the genre with Afro-American music.

The blues ballad has been seen as a fusion of Anglo-American and Afro-American styles of music from the 19th century.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

With its jazz sophistication, pop music and blues influence, plus improvised scats and wisecrack commentary by Wills, the band became the first superstars of the genre.

Variously referred to as roots music, American folk music, or old-time music, this tradition has exerted a strong influence on all forms of American music, including country, blues, and rock and roll.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

The harmonica, also called French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

Since the 1950s, many blues harmonica players have amplified their instrument with microphones and tube amplifiers.

Depending on the region of the world, " diatonic harmonica " may mean either the tremolo harmonica ( in East Asia ) or blues harp ( In Europe and North America ).

Another way is to use a ' head shaking ' technique, frequently used in blues harmonica, in which the player moves the lips between two holes very quickly.

Bending also creates the glissandos characteristic of much blues harp and country harmonica playing.

Bends are essential for most blues and rock harmonica due to the soulful sounds the instrument can bring out.

The harmonica then made its way with the blues and the black migrants to the north, mainly to Chicago but also to Detroit, St. Louis and New York.

He also helped to popularize the cross-harp technique, which became an important blues harmonica technique.

Jimmy Reed played harmonica on most of his blues shuffle recordings.

The 1960s and 1970s saw the harmonica become less prominent, as the overdriven electric lead guitar became the dominant instrument for solos in blues rock.

He was influenced by very few people ; but does recall an elderly, unrecorded, blues singer from that area, Rufus Hanks, who played twelve-string guitar and harmonica.

* 1943 – Jerry Portnoy American harmonica blues musician

Also that year, Helm and the band met blues singer and harmonica player Sonny Boy Williamson.

According to one story, Guthrie made friends with an African-American blues harmonica player named " George ", whom he would watch play at the man's shoe shine booth.

Robert Ross is an American blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and leader of the Robert Ross Band.

* Chester Burnett ( 1910 – 1976 ), known as Howlin ' Wolf, American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player

The well known Memphis jug bands were small street groups, performing generally on Beale Street, and had their own blues style, using guitar, harmonica, banjo and a jug to accompany their blues and dance songs.

Category: American blues harmonica players

* Rod Piazza, blues harmonica player

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

Black and white is her favorite color combination along with lively glowing pinks, reds, blues and greens.

Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles ( trencadís ) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues.

" Love and Theft is, as the title implies, a kind of homage ," writes Kot, " never more so than on ' High Water ( for Charley Patton ),' in which Dylan draws a sweeping portrait of the South's racial history, with the unsung blues singer as a symbol of the region's cultural richness and ingrained social cruelties.

Either way, the show captured the imaginations of many young television viewers in the United States and abroad and is often considered a classic piece of 1990s youth culture and Generation X. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, cite the show as an influence and compared it to the blues, and met Mike Judge before the show aired.

One is a devotion to the original rhythm and blues roots of Rock and roll including Ritchie Valens, Sunny and the Sunglows, and?

One example is Band-in-a-Box, which is capable of creating jazz, blues and rock instrumental solos with almost no user interaction.

In addition, it is used in other genres such as jazz, 1950s-style blues and rock and roll, rockabilly / psychobilly, traditional country music, bluegrass, tango and many types of folk music.

In other genres, such as blues and rockabilly, the bass is plucked.

In many non-orchestral settings, such as jazz and blues, amplification via a specialized amplifier and loudspeakers is employed.

In contrast, in genres that mainly or exclusively use pizzicato ( plucking ), such as jazz and blues, a great deal of time and effort is focused on learning the varieties of different pizzicato styles used for music of different styles of tempi.

The acoustic guitar is used in many kinds of music including folk, country, bluegrass, pop, jazz, and blues.

The twelve-string guitar usually has steel strings and is widely used in folk music, blues, and rock and roll.

The electric guitar is used extensively in jazz, blues, R & B, and rock and roll.

Another speculation is that the word may have been inspired by the 1960 hit song " Gonzo " by New Orleans rhythm and blues pianist James Booker.

Parsons is best known for his work within the country genre ; he also mixed blues, folk, and rock to create what he called " Cosmic American Music ".