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1. www.allmusic.com › style › electric-chicago-blues-maElectric Chicago Blues Music Style Overview | AllMusic

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   Electric Chicago Blues. Electric Chicago Blues was developed in the late '40s and early '50s, taking what was essentially Delta blues, amplifying it, and putting it into a small-band context. Taking the basic guitar and harmonica lineup and fortifying it with drums, bass, and piano (sometimes saxophones), the form created what we now know as ...

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Chicago_bluesChicago blues - Wikipedia

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   20th century, Chicago, U.S. Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois. It is based on earlier blues idioms, such as Delta blues, but is performed in an urban style. It developed alongside the Great Migration of African Americans of the first half of the twentieth century. Key features that distinguish Chicago ...

4. www.loudersound.com › features › the-20-greatestThe 20 Greatest Chicago Blues Records - Louder

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   • Baby Face Leroy Trio – Rollin’ And Tumblin’ With its polyphonic moaning and humming and its deliriously repetitive riffs, this recording has been described by some critics and scholars as a throwback to the ring shouts enacted by black slaves as rituals of connectedness and celebration.
   • Muddy Waters – Hoochie Coochie Man. McKinley Morganfield, also known as Muddy Waters, was inspired to learn guitar as a teenager in Mississippi after seeing Clarksdale Delta blues pioneer Son House play bottleneck slide.
   • Howlin’ Wolf – Smokestack Lightnin’ Chester Burnett cut an imposing figure in the Chicago blues clubs of the 50s, being 6ft 3in tall, weighing 275lbs and possessing one of the most extraordinary voices in music – a rasping, ferocious, yet haunting and soulful howl that had earned him the name Howlin’ Wolf.
   • Little Walter – Juke. Marion Walter Jacobs, known professionally as Little Walter, revolutionised blues harmonica playing as surely as Jimi Hendrix revolutionised electric guitar.

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Electric_bluesElectric blues - Wikipedia

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   Electric blues is blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments. The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T-Bone Walker in the late 1930s and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters in the 1940s. Their styles developed into West Coast blues, Detroit blues, and ...

6. www.allmusic.com › style › electric-chicago-blues-maElectric Chicago Blues Music Songs | AllMusic

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   Electric Chicago Blues was developed in the late '40s and early '50s, taking what was essentially Delta blues, amplifying it, and putting it into a small-band context. Taking the basic guitar and harmonica lineup and fortifying it with drums, bass, and piano (sometimes saxophones), the form created what we now know as the standard blues band.

7. www.allmusic.com › style › modern-electric-chicagoModern Electric Chicago Blues Music Style Overview | AllMusic

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   Overview Artists Albums Songs. Modern Electric Chicago Blues keeps the same structure and sound as Chicago blues, so the term is primarily a distinction of eras. The modern era begins in the late '60s, as a new generation began to play the blues. Some of these players displayed rock influences, mainly in terms of loud amplification, but they ...

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   What is electric Chicago blues?

   • Electric Chicago Blues was developed in the late '40s and early '50s, taking what was essentially Delta blues, amplifying it, and putting it into a small-band context. Taking the basic guitar and harmonica lineup and fortifying it with drums, bass, and piano (sometimes saxophones), the form created what we now know as the standard blues band.

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   What is electric blues music?

   • Electric blues is blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments. The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T-Bone Walker in the late 1930s and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters in the 1940s.

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   What is Chicago blues music?

   • Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois. It is based on earlier blues idioms, such as Delta blues, but is performed in an urban style. It developed alongside the Great Migration of African Americans of the first half of the twentieth century.

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   When did electric blues begin?

   • The times were a-changin',\and electric blues began\. A new 12-disc compilation traces the history of electric blues from its inauspicious start through its heyday in the 1950s and '60s. (Critic Ed Ward says Plug It In!)

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   What is Chicago blues based on?

   • Chicago blues is based on the sound of the electric guitar and the harmonica, with the harmonica played through a PA system or guitar amplifier, both heavily amplified and often to the point of distortion, and a rhythm section of drums and bass (double bass at first, and later electric bass guitar) with piano depending on the song or performer.

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   When did blues start using electric guitars?

   • Although it took a little longer, the electric bass guitar gradually replaced the stand-up bass by the early 1960s. Electric organs and especially keyboards later became widely used in electric blues. The blues, like jazz, probably began to be amplified in the late 1930s.

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   Nov 29, 2012 · Floyd Smith was a member of the Kansas City band Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy, and cut "Floyd's Guitar Blues" on March 16, 1939, using techniques that Hawaiian guitarists had made famous ...