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.

Gut strings are nowadays mostly used by bassists who perform in baroque ensembles, rockabilly bands, traditional blues bands, and bluegrass bands.

By 1960, having been influenced more by jazz music than blues, Brown began incorporating jazz styled arrangements in his music, with Brown naming the Famous Flames hits " I'll Go Crazy " and " Think " as examples of his changing style away from more traditional forms of R & B and rock ' n ' roll.

The sound of a kora resembles that of a harp, though when played in the traditional style, it bears a closer resemblance to flamenco and delta blues guitar techniques.

Hard bop also distanced itself from cool jazz by virtue of a harder beat and by its constant reference to the blues, both in its traditional form and in the form made popular by rhythm and blues.

They were followed by 1940s R & B vocal acts like The Orioles, The Ravens and The Clovers, who injected a strong element of traditional gospel and, increasingly, the energy of jump blues.

His songwriting shifted as well, moving away from the traditional piano-and-strings ballad sound of his 1970s output towards a number of styles largely ignored in pop music, including primal blues, cabaret stylings, rumbas, theatrical approaches in the style of Kurt Weill, tango music, early country music and European folk music as well as the Tin Pan Alley-era songs that influenced his early output.

Many of his songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression when Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned their traditional folk and blues songs, earning him the nickname the " Dust Bowl Troubadour.

This style of band is based upon an amalgamation of traditional styles from bands in the Big 10 and African American traditions, where the music selections are largely based on rhythm & blues and contemporary popular music.

In the same genre field, the traditional and contemporary blues categories and the traditional and contemporary folk categories each were consolidated into one per genre, due to the number of entries and given the challenges in distinguishing between contemporary folk and Americana, and contemporary and traditional blues.

The collection of traditional folk ballads, blues and laments sung to her own guitar accompaniment sold moderately well.

" Let the Rain Pour Down " is set to the melody of " Midnight Special ," a traditional blues song popularized by Lead Belly.

For example, Miller's arrangement of " St. Louis Blues March ", combined blues and jazz with the traditional military march.

Baby Gramps plays a mixture of styles and eras including traditional blues, children's and labor songs, and his own compositions.

On "( Wish I Could Fly Like ) Superman ", Davies vented his existential angst about the 1979 energy crisis over a thumping disco beat ; on " A Gallon of Gas ", he addressed the same concern over a traditional acoustic twelve-bar blues shuffle.

Taylor, Gene Eugene ( of Adam Again ), Derri Daugherty ( of The Choir ), and Michael Roe ( of The 77s ) have released several eclectic albums of traditional American music ( country, folk, blues, rock ) over the last decade.

Arguably one of Plant's most significant achievements with Led Zeppelin was his contribution to the track " Stairway to Heaven ", an epic rock ballad featured on Led Zeppelin IV that drew influence from folk, blues, Celtic traditional music and hard rock among other genres.

By the mid-1950s, rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States, deriving most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, which itself developed from earlier blues, boogie woogie, jazz, and swing music, and was also influenced by gospel, country and western, and traditional folk music.

With the help of Ziggy Elman, also in the band, he transformed a traditional Jewish melody into a popular song, `` And The Angels Sing ''.

Popularity of the song increased greatly following the September 11, 2001 attacks ; at some sporting events it was sung in addition to the traditional singing of the national anthem.

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

*" The Ballad of Casey Jones " is a traditional song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving.

" Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye " is a popular traditional Irish anti-war and anti-recruiting song.

though in the classic traditional folk song, Dogie's Lament, also known as Git along little dogie, the " dogies " in question meant cattle strong enough to be herded from Texas to Wyoming, including weaners, yearling steers and other young, non-orphaned animals.

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds was so moved by the results of the Enniskillen bombing in 1987 that he wrote new words to the traditional folk song " She Moved Through The Fair " and the group recorded it with the name " Belfast Child ".

Some traditional song narratives recall supernatural events or mysterious deaths.

In the Western world, Christmas carols and other traditional songs preserve religious lore in song form.

Field researchers in traditional song ( see below ) have encountered countless versions of this ballad throughout the English-speaking world, and these versions often differ greatly from each other.

Cecil Sharp had an influential idea about the process of folk variation: he felt that the competing variants of a traditional song would undergo a process akin to biological natural selection: only those new variants that were the most appealing to ordinary singers would be picked up by others and transmitted onward in time.

Thus, over time we would expect each traditional song to become aesthetically ever more appealing — it would be collectively composed to perfection, as it were, by the community.

Contemporaneously with Child came the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, and later and more significantly Cecil Sharp who worked in the early 20th century to preserve a great body of English rural traditional song, music and dance, under the aegis of what became and remains the English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS ).

Around this time, composers of classical music developed a strong interest in traditional song collecting, and a number of outstanding composers carried out their own field work on traditional song.

People who studied traditional song sometimes hoped that their work would restore traditional music to the people.

The club's traditional guernsey colours are white guernseys with navy blue hoops, white shorts and navy and white hooped socks and the team song is " We Are Geelong ".

People from Hawick call themselves " Teries ", after a traditional song which includes the line " Teribus ye teri odin ".

Lavani is a combination of traditional song and dance, which particularly performed to the enchanting beats of ' Dholaki ', a drum-like instrument.

This view of the Irish-American experience is depicted by another traditional song, " Paddy's Lamentation.

Rock band Kagrra, are well known for using traditional Japanese musical instruments in many of their songs, an example being " Utakata " ( うたかた ), a song in which the koto has a prominent place.

Twenty years after his first CD, Kaira ( Hannibal, 1988 )-that was also the first CD ever recorded with solo kora pieces without any song -, Toumani Diabate alternates traditional pieces on a kora with leather rings and his own creations with a special tuning on a kora with wooden pegs.

# " Merry-Go-Round Music " medley ( traditional )-" Listen to the Mocking Bird " was the only portion of this track that was actually used in the film, along with the second segment of " King Cotton ", a Sousa march, which was not on the album

At the time, the traditional four " major " bowl games — the Cotton, Orange, Sugar and Rose — had contracts with the major conferences whose champions were guaranteed selections.

In April 2008, Cotton Bowl Classic officials announced that in 2009 and 2010 the game would be moved from its traditional start time of 10 a. m. CST on January 1 to 1 p. m. CST on January 2.

The single's B-side was a medley of the American traditional songs " Pick a Bale of Cotton ", " On Top of Old Smokey ", and " Midnight Special ", which the group had recorded in 1975.