You Can Never Miss This ----Blues

      There are people who love Rock and Roll; there are people who love country music. I mean, although you have a specific kind of music you love, you should still listen to Blues music, because it is one of the most amazing creation in the music world. Couple of decades before, the socitey wasn't as equal and fair as now it is; therefore, a lot of people who suffered from the injustice can express their ideas through blues music. Because of the reality that blues music shows, unlucky people, especially African American, felt that they were not alone who were suffering in a unfair society, and they got mollified by the Blues Music.



     "Blues music was the antithesis of city life, but the early recording of blues music was a New York affair. ... The blues singers bridged different realms of black music, bringing together the styles and practices of the minstrel shows, of the vaudeville theaters, of ragtime and of their native rural environments" (A Brief History of Blues Music).


   

   

     


        Charley Patton. "A werewolf-like vocalist and sophisticated slide guitarist (two gifts that made his style the most fluid vocal-guitar duet of blues music) who wrote the classics High Water Everywhere (october 1929), Pony Blues (june 1929), Prayer of Death (june 1929)"(A History of Blues Music).

  
   

     Robert Johnson. "A legend who lived only 27 years and recorded only 29 songs, but enough to establish a new (chilly and fatalistic) standard of delivery and accompaniment, Johnson perfected the styles of Charley Patton and Son House (and the guitar style of Lonnie Johnson) in the harrowingTerraplane Blues, Cross Road Blues, the bleak Stones" (A History of Blues Music). 








     

        "Yet another reason to learn the blues is because just about everyone else learns the blues on their respective instruments. One day you may meet up with a guitarist or a saxophone player to play, but you don't know any of the same songs. Chances are he or she knows the blues. Knowing the blues will give you something in common to play. You certainly wouldn't want to admit you don't know how to play one of music's most common musical structures" (The Importance Of The Blues).

    
        In my opinion, I think that Blues Music is the foundation, or, early development  of the modern popular music. In Blues Music, there are all elements you can find in today's Jazz, R&B, country music. Therefore, by listening to Blues Music, you can listen to all music elements at once!

          


Citation:
[1]: A Brief History of Blues Music. http://www.scaruffi.com/history/blues.html
[2]: The Importance of the Blues.  http://www.studybass.com/lessons/blues-bass/the-importance-of-the-blues/