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    subgenres. Blues subgenres include country blues, Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues and West Coast blues. World...
    93 KB (11,175 words) - 15:46, 7 October 2024
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    Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the African-American community in the 1940s...
    71 KB (8,169 words) - 02:04, 11 November 2024
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    Eric Clapton (category British blues rock musicians)
    bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop". After four successful albums, Cream...
    193 KB (19,567 words) - 05:59, 10 November 2024
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    Ray Charles (category American blues pianists)
    pioneered the soul music genre during the 1950s by combining blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles into the music he recorded for Atlantic Records...
    97 KB (9,114 words) - 03:34, 11 November 2024
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    Elvis Presley (category American blues singers)
    rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. In 1955, drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley's...
    207 KB (23,739 words) - 08:45, 11 November 2024
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    The Moody Blues were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1964. The band initially consisted of Graeme Edge (drums), Denny Laine (guitar/vocals)...
    85 KB (10,771 words) - 18:09, 1 November 2024
  • Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music. The genre...
    31 KB (2,658 words) - 06:56, 31 October 2024
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    continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and then the Full Tilt Boogie Band. She appeared at the 1969 Woodstock...
    158 KB (15,820 words) - 12:57, 9 November 2024
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    Fleetwood Mac (category American blues rock musical groups)
    & Blues Festival in Windsor. The band became a five-piece in 1968 with the addition of guitarist and singer Danny Kirwan. Primarily a British blues band...
    125 KB (13,712 words) - 18:25, 2 November 2024
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    Stevie Wonder (category American rhythm and blues keyboardists)
    1984 film The Woman in Red). Wonder has been inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame...
    131 KB (11,590 words) - 03:20, 9 November 2024
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    B. B. King (redirect from Blues Boy King)
    1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B. B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated...
    74 KB (6,838 words) - 05:11, 24 October 2024
  • Robert Johnson (category Delta blues musicians)
    Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His singing, guitar playing and songwriting on his...
    95 KB (12,087 words) - 10:39, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stevie Ray Vaughan
    Stevie Ray Vaughan (category American blues guitarists)
    was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Although his mainstream...
    100 KB (12,969 words) - 14:07, 22 October 2024
  • The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis. The Blues compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central...
    96 KB (10,901 words) - 05:51, 27 October 2024
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    Muddy Waters (category American blues guitarists)
    blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues"...
    50 KB (5,359 words) - 05:13, 24 October 2024
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    Dan Aykroyd (category The Blues Brothers members)
    in The Blues Brothers (1980), Trading Places (1983), Spies Like Us (1985), Dragnet (1987), The Great Outdoors (1988), Coneheads (1993), and Blues Brothers...
    74 KB (6,373 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2024
  • African American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, electric blues, gospel, and jump blues, as well as country music. While rock and roll's...
    74 KB (8,325 words) - 23:44, 4 November 2024
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    Gary Moore (category British blues rock musicians)
    he played in various groups and performed a range of music including blues, blues rock, hard rock, heavy metal and jazz fusion. Influenced by Peter Green...
    76 KB (7,456 words) - 21:30, 2 November 2024
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    The Rolling Stones (category English blues musical groups)
    soon became the band's primary songwriting and creative force. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing covers and...
    265 KB (26,538 words) - 03:13, 9 November 2024
  • The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd...
    76 KB (7,782 words) - 13:49, 11 November 2024
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