750 - THE BLUES [Freak Show #8]

 

 

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Beth Hart, Jonny Lang, Bonnie Raitt, Gary Moore, George Thorogood, Dion DiMucci, Etta James, Cactus, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Free, Andy Watts ft Joe Louis Walker, Robben Ford, ZZ Top, Scottie Miller Band, Big Boy Bloater & The Limits, Jeff Fetterman, The Stumble, The Eric Street Band, Curtis Salgado, Neal Black & Larry Garner, Beth Hart ft Joe Bonamassa, Dana Gillespie, Andreas Diehlmann Band, Jake Chisholm, The Rides, Johnny Tucker, Jeff Pitchell & Texas Flood feat. Rick Derringer, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Rory Gallagher, Joe Bonamassa, Black Keys Moreland & Arbuckle, John Cambell, Paul Reddick, Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King, Janis Joplin

Beth Hart, Jonny Lang, Bonnie Raitt, Gary Moore, George Thorogood, Dion DiMucci, Etta James, Cactus, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Free, Andy Watts ft Joe Louis Walker, Robben Ford, ZZ Top, Scottie Miller Band, Big Boy Bloater & The Limits, Jeff Fetterman, The Stumble, The Eric Street Band, Curtis Salgado, Neal Black & Larry Garner, Beth Hart ft Joe Bonamassa, Dana Gillespie, Andreas Diehlmann Band, Jake Chisholm, The Rides, Johnny Tucker, Jeff Pitchell & Texas Flood feat. Rick Derringer, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Rory Gallagher, Joe Bonamassa, Black Keys, Moreland & Arbuckle, John Cambell, Paul Reddick, Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King, Janis Joplin

ROCKSTORY

"(THE BLUES)"

"“The term 'Blues' may have originated from "blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness. It may also have been derived from a British usage of the 1600s referring to the "intense visual hallucinations that can accompany severe alcohol withdrawal" As time went on, the phrase lost the reference to devils and came to mean a state of agitation or depression. By the 1800s in the United States, the term "blues" was associated with drinking alcohol, a meaning which survives in the phrase 'blue law', which prohibits the sale of alcohol on Sunday Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale, and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. "