Description of Blues
Top Blues Tracks
Blues Key Albums
Blues Key Artists
Texas and Electric Blues
god Albert Collins was an
explosive lead player and
knock-down-drag-out
shouter.
Albert King's left-handed,
beyond-the-legal-limit guitar
bends are the aural
equivalent of a buzzing
tornado.
Whether performing jazz
standards or deep soul
blues, Hunter's talents
reach back to the rustic
beginnings of blues. In th...
B.B. is nicknamed "King of
the Blues" thanks to his
weeping guitar lines and
throaty, big man vocals.
King was taught how to pl...
This sometimes sultry,
sometimes gut-wrenching
"Empress of the Blues" was
one of the genre's very first
recording artists. First rec...
Over three decades,
Broonzy applied his fluid
guitar playing and down
home vocals to Acoustic,
Country and Chicago Blue...
Pre-War blues singer and
guitarist whose rough
vocals and fleet guitar
playing produced an
archetypal form of the bl...
Seminal Jazz Blues vocalist
and pianist Charles Brown is
best known for his 1945
self-penned staple "Drifting
Blues."
The provocative, insatiable
Ms. Etta James sings with
unrivaled passion whether
it be soul, blues, soul-blues,
or R&B. Etta James once sai...
King greased up the sweet
sounds of B.B. King and
added some flash to
become a premier guitar
player in Electric Blues.
Delta bluesman Howlin' Wolf
was one of the most
influential musicians of the
post-World War II era, and
his electric Chicago blues...
Blues musician John Lee
Hooker helped define the
post-World War II electric
blues with his one-chord
boogie compositions and...
Generally considered the
first blues artist to have a
substantial white audience,
Leadbelly combined folk
and blues. Leadbelly is am...
Saxophonist and
bandleader Jordan was the
first to make the shuffling,
party-down sound of Jump
Blues popular in the '40s.
Churning, treadmill slide
guitar work and somber
vocals are the trademarks
of this Delta Blues elder
statesman. Fred McDowell...
An elder statesman of
Acoustic Blues, Hurt
worked a lot of folk into his
Delta-heavy music and sang
with a refined voice. Rev...
Bluesman Muddy Waters
defined Chicago's post-war
blues scene with his skillful
slide guitar and growling
vocals. Muddy Waters wa...
Rush's tortured, intense
music became one of the
trademarks of Chicago
Blues. His early sides are
positively blistering.
Myths of the blues include
Satanism, crimes of passion,
and superstition. Most of
these can be attributed to
Robert Johnson. Robert J...
Influential harmonica player
Sonny Boy Williamson was a
hilarious and heartbreaking
beacon of blues until his
death in 1965.
A stylistic influence that
cannot be measured,
Walker played smoky
Electric Blues and
practically spawned Urba...
Dixon provided the bass
bottom for countless '50s
Chess tracks; he later
performed his own
bellowing blues numbers.
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