The Blues is everywhere

[Lionel Mandrake]

What do we mean by the blues? Your answer will depend on the types of music you listen to.

If you go to blues clubs, you will expect to hear blue notes, which give the music a certain sweetness.

If you like 1960s rock, you may or may not hear the blues in this tune:

Bent notes, which are mandatory in delta blues and optional in rock, are rare in jazz. What a jazz aficionado calls the blues typically has the same chords, with some variations, as any other blues. Although most blues has mostly major chords, there is such a thing as a minor blues, e.g.:

Occasionally the 12 bar format is changed to 24 bars:

[cemaphonic]

1. My new muscial love - Piedmont Blues

Awesome ragtime fingerpicked acoustic blues. Not as influential to rock as the delta blues style, but the alternating bass line is a clear influence on country & bluegrass guitar:

Etta Baker - One Dime Blues

Blind Blake - West Coast Blues

Rev Gary Davis - If I Had My Way

Mississippi John Hurt - My Creole Belle

[Lionel Mandrake]

3. Interesting.

I never heard the term "Piedmont Blues" before, although I've heard some of the musicians who play in that style.
Thank you for a thoughtful post.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Lionel Mandrake!

All the blues I've heard, I just love. Bent notes are great!

K&R

[Lionel Mandrake]

4. My dear CP,

I'm glad you enjoy the blues, including bent notes. They can be very expressive, and that's the whole point of playing music.

[adirondacker]

5. Excellent post! The Blues has so much influence in modern music.

I had a cousin that Loved to play Gary's tunes.
Miss them both

[Lionel Mandrake]

6. Yes it does.

The Gary Moore tune you posted starts off like "The Blue Bossa", which is a jazz standard. It's not exactly the blues, but it's bluesy.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

7. What always makes me lol with 'Sunshine' is,

that Clapton's solo intro is the melody of Do-wop classic Blue Moon.

[Lionel Mandrake]

8. Some quotations are so subtle that only other musicians hear them.

This one, not so much.

[Doug.Goodall]

9. The best Blues is sung by people who have lived it

You can just feel the Blues from people who have truly 'been there'.

The Blues come across loud and clear with Stevie Ray Vaughan.

[Lionel Mandrake]

12. Here's one by someone who's been there and lived to tell about it ...

[bluesbassman]

15. And here's another...

Great thread Lionel!

[lovemydog]

10. 'I asked for water

she gave me gasoline.' - Howlin' Wolf

I love the blues. Thanks for the great post.

[Lionel Mandrake]

13. You're welcome!

And thanks for the rec!

[Duppers]

11. my Memphis boy..

And I were discussing this exact subject the other evening.

Thanks for the thread.

[Lionel Mandrake]

14. You're welcome!

And thanks for the rec!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. I want in on this thread ... so, Lionel Mandrake how about Some =

[Lionel Mandrake]

17. Welcome aboard!

"Come and Go Blues" is a nice selection. It has elements of Blues, Rock, Country, and Jazz. Almost everyone can relate to this tune on some level.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. When we lost Duane Allman we lost a direction in music. I will always wonder where the

Allman Brothers could have taken us if we had not lost Duane. Gregg is good but, together they were limitless. They did fusion like no other.