Blues

Blues is music genre that appeared in USA in the second half of the XIX century. It is based on African American folk music and their work songs. The name "blues" comes from the expression "the blue devils", which means melancholy and sadness.

Blues is usually described as a slow, liquid and sad music. Tune is based on use of special "blues" notes. The standart lyrical form of blues represents a line, repeated and then followed by a single line.

Blues became the base for jazz and R&B, and influenced nearly all music genres that appeared later.

Genre top albums

Brothers 2010
by The Black Keys

The Black Keys keep working hard and steadily. Their new long player, Brothers, is already the sixth studio album released in only eight years. Yet the quality remains unsurpassed

Pull Up Some Dust & Sit Down 2011
by Ry Cooder

Brilliant musician Ry Cooder is not going to retire silently, not for a while. On the contrary, his fresh CD, Pull Up Some Dust & Sit Down will be another demonstration of Ry's never withering artistic energy

I'm New Here 2010
by Gil Scott-Heron

A forerunner of the contemporary hip-hop culture, Gil Scott-Heron, surprised the masses with the unexpected release of another album of his own. A thirty-minute record called I'm New Here appears his first studio work in the last fifteen years

Clapton 2010
by Eric Clapton

The new album traditionally includes both pop-blues and rock standards as well as absolutely new songs which serve the best proof that Eric Clapton is still one of the greatest musicians of all time

Don't Explain 2011
by Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa

Singer Beth Hart and guitarist Joe Bonamassa, having played a lot of gigs together, formed a duet to record a cover collection called Don't Explain. Whichever performer's fan you are, this release is going to please you

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