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The festival is an annual event and traditionally has been a three-day music festival held the last weekend of January. It encompasses a range of music genres, including jazz, R&B, blues, Latin, Reggae, Soca, and various types of musical fusion. In 2010, the Festival was extended to seven days and was hosted at different venues starting in ...
Guitarist Buddy Guy performing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2006. Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone.
Elmore James ( né Brooks; January 27, 1918 – May 24, 1963) [ 1] was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and bandleader. [ 2] Noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice, James was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. [ 3] His slide guitar technique earned him the nickname "King of the Slide ...
Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records, founded in 1947. It expanded into soul music, gospel music, early rock and roll, and jazz and comedy recordings, released on the Chess and its subsidiary labels Checker and Argo ...
Songwriter (s) Unknown. " It Hurts Me Too " is a blues standard, regarded as one of the most interpreted songs in the genre. [ 2] First recorded in 1940 by Tampa Red, the song is a mid-tempo eight-bar blues that features slide guitar. It borrows from earlier blues songs and has been recorded by many artists.
Elmore James was an American blues slide guitarist and singer who recorded from 1951 until 1963. His most famous song, "Dust My Broom", an electrified adaptation of a Robert Johnson tune, was his first hit and features one of the most identifiable slide guitar figures in blues. [ 2] James' composition "The Sky Is Crying" (which became a blues ...
Robert Johnson. Producer (s) Don Law. " Dust My Broom " is a blues song originally recorded as " I Believe I'll Dust My Broom " by American blues artist Robert Johnson in 1936. It is a solo performance in the Delta blues -style with Johnson's vocal accompanied by his acoustic guitar. As with many of his songs, it is based on earlier blues songs ...
Music of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois is a major center for music [ 1] in the midwestern United States where distinctive forms of blues (greatly responsible for the future creation of rock and roll ), and house music, a genre of electronic dance music, were developed. The "Great Migration" of poor black workers from the South into the industrial ...