Country blues (also folk blues rural blues backwoods blues or downhome blues) is a general term that refers to all the acoustic mainly guitar-driven forms of the blues. It often incorporated elements of rural gospel ragtime hillbilly and dixieland jazz. After blues’ birth in the Southern United States it quickly spread throughout the country (and elsewhere) giving birth to a host of regional styles.
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