British blues is a form of music derived from American blues that originated in the late 1950s and which reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s when it […]
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Electric blues
Electric blues is a type of blues music distinguished by the amplification of the guitar bass guitar drums and often the harmonica. Pioneered in the 1930s it emerged as a […]
New York blues
The New York blues is a type of blues music produced in New York City. It is primarily based on jump blues and uptown blues. Singers are prominent and the […]
Piedmont blues
Piedmont blues (also known as East Coast or Southeastern blues) refers primarily to a guitar style the Piedmont fingerstyle which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular […]
Highlife
Highlife is a music genre that originated in Ghana at the turn of the 20th century and incorporated the traditional harmonic 9th as well as melodic and the main rhythmic […]
Surf music
Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture particularly as found in Orange County and other areas of Southern California. It was especially popular from 1961 […]
West Coast blues
The West Coast blues is a type of blues music characterized by jazz and jump blues influences strong piano-dominated sounds and jazzy guitar solos which originated from Texas blues players […]
Piano blues
Piano blues refers to a variety of blues styles that use the piano as the primary musical instrument. Boogie woogie is one of the best known styles of piano blues. […]
New Orleans rhythm and blues
New Orleans rhythm and blues refers to a type of R&B music from the U.S. city of New Orleans Louisiana characterized by extensive use of piano and horn sections complex […]
Louisiana blues
Louisiana blues is a genre of blues music that developed in the period after World War II in the state of Louisiana. It is generally divided into two major sub-genres […]