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Electric Memphis Blues Overview Artists Albums Songs The later, post-World War II version of Electric Memphis Blues featured explosive, distorted electric guitar work, thunderous drumming, and fierce, declamatory vocals.
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Electric Memphis Blues Overview Artists Albums Songs The later, post-World War II version of Electric Memphis Blues featured explosive, distorted electric guitar work, thunderous drumming, and fierce, declamatory vocals.
Jun 15, 2011 · Well, before nailing down the title "birthplace of rock 'n' roll," Memphis and West Memphis made many great contributions to early acoustic and electric blues. Here are a mere five of them.
- Nick Morrison
The Memphis blues is a style of blues music created from the 1910s to the 1930s by musicians in the Memphis area, such as Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis and Memphis Minnie. The style was popular in vaudeville and medicine shows and was associated with Beale Street, the main entertainment area in Memphis.
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Pre-war Memphis was home to country blues greats like Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes, Robert Wilkins—famously covered by the Rolling Stones—and Memphis Minnie. Postwar Memphis gave rise to some of the biggest names in electric blues and was ground zero for the development of rock ‘n' roll.
