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In spite of its constant grappling with the darker themes, Blue is ultimately a document of perseverance, determination, and acceptance overcoming the weight and oppression of depression, sadness, and sorrow. Through even the coldest recesses of her thoughts, Mitchell can still find the light that keeps her going and keeps her from sinking permanently into the blue.
The music of Skip James, the most enigmatic of all the Delta blues figures, was ominous, bleak and mysterious, made primarily for his own emotional release. James was an exceptional guitarist, with a trademark E-minor tuning and an eerie falsetto vocal delivery. After making some seminal blues recordings, in 1931 he moved to Dallas, where he served as a minister and led a gospel group. His My God is Real, speaks of a deep, very personal experience of faith.
White was a prolific blues artist and civil rights activist in the first half of the twentieth century. He took a clear anti-segregationist and international human rights political stance and recorded a number of political protest songs. He also recorded gospel songs under the moniker, The Singing Christian. His 1935 My Soul is Gonna Live with God puts his guitar playing chops and his fine singing on display and focuses on the Christian hope for after death.
When you hear a jazz song, you hear the blues in action. Specifically, you are hearing microtonalism at work. The blues tradition uses microtonal notes that fluctuate between the set pitches of standard Western music.
These microtonal notes are colloquially referred to as blue notes. They are an intimate part of jazz melodies and phrasing. The best way to incorporate the blue note into your playing is by learning a bunch of blues tunes.
This minor blues composition has some interesting chord variations that add more harmonic complexity to the form. Despite the harmony being slightly more complicated than a standard minor blues, the melody is simple and iconic.
Something simple you can do to start playing great jazz blues solos right away is to repurpose themes from blues heads and apply them to different parts of the song or to other songs. This is a sure way to improve your jazz solos and get comfortable with playing these ideas in different keys and styles.
King's rendition may have been outsold by the rival version recorded that same year by Joe Williams and the Count Basie Orchestra, but by opening his live shows with "Every Day I Have the Blues" well into the Seventies, King became the bluesman with whom the malleable blues standard is most identified to this day. He credited his success with the tune, which originated with the Sparks brothers in the Thirties and achieved its modern form (if not its title) in 1949 with Memphis Slim's "Nobody Loves Me," to the "crisp and relaxed" horn charts of arranger Maxwell Davis.
After the success of "The Thrill Is Gone," King started experimenting more frequently with pop- and rock-inspired arrangements. The most successful of the six singles released from 1970's crossover hit Indianola Mississipi Seeds is a slow, regretful song whose most distinctive bluer-than-blue phrase came from a mistake. King, he later explained, "hit the wrong note and worked my way out of it. . .We got the arranger to have the strings follow it." The haunting electric piano riff that underscores the song is played by none other than Carole King.
And no place has produced more influential American bluesmen and women than the Mississippi Delta. So it's only fitting to celebrate some of the most noted musicians who came from Mississippi or whose ties to the genre were formed here.
Son House, a sometimes preacher-sometimes musician, also played slide guitar and sang in a spirited, larger-than-life style that is seen in a lot of today's modern blues. Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and other early blues artists are said to have been influenced by House. The lyrics for "Walking Blues" describe a transient lifestyle.
Skip James is another early blues artist, known for playing the piano and guitar in what is known as the Bentonia style of blues, named after his hometown on the outskirts of the Mississippi Delta. The "killing floor" of the song's title refers to working in a slaughterhouse.
Robert Johnson recorded an earlier version of "Dust My Broom," but Elmore James' version is the one more people are familiar with. James wrote some of his own that were in turn made popular by other blues artists including "The Sky is Crying," "Shake Your Money Maker" and "Done Me Wrong."
The song was written in 1935 by Delta blues artist Big Joe Williams, who saw great success with the song, but Muddy Waters' Chicago blues version in 1953 with electric instrumentation transformed the song into a blockbuster hit. Waters, a Delta native, is the father of the post-World War II Chicago blues, which featured electric instruments after decades of acoustic blues.
Many blues artists have recorded the song, but it was penned by Willie Dixon, a prolific songwriter dubbed the Poet Laureate of the Blues. His works have been recorded by blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, as well as artists from other genres: The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Etta James and Delbert McClinton.
John Lee Hooker was among the first blues artists to regularly permeate the mainstream with songs like "Boogie Chillen'," "It Serves You Right to Suffer" and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer." Hooker performed "Boom Boom" in the 1980 film, "The Blues Brothers."
From a little east of the Delta in Mississippi's hill country came a variation of blues music that has steady, driving rhythms and very few chord changes. One of the more iconic figures of hill country blues is R.L. Burnside, who performed for decades before he was discovered in the 1990s by an international audience, is a towering figure in hill country blues.
Albert King was a versatile guitarist who as a left-hander taught himself how to play the guitar upside down and backwards, rather than restringing as other lefties have done. He permeated his riffs with hints of rhythm and blues and rock music that had undertones of B.B. King's style of playing. In his early years, Albert King admired B.B. King and often claimed to be his brother. Albert King's offerings include "Don't Lie to Me," "Born Under a Bad Sign" and "Crosscut Saw" which have become blues standards recorded by blues and rock guitarists around the world, including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Buddy Guy is a Louisiana native who, like many other blues artists, made the exodus from the South to earn his place on the Chicago blues stage. Guy wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb" as a blues-rock take on the children's nursery rhyme.
Written by Roy Hawkins in 1951, B.B. King's version became an instant classic when it charted on Billboard's Top 10 Rhythm and Blues songs. King's version also made Billboard's Top 10 in 1970 for best-selling soul singles and hit No. 15 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. King has recorded numerous hit-making songs like "Every Day I Have the Blues," "Three O'Clock Blues" and "Rock Me Baby," but "The Thrill is Gone" is his signature song.
Hill country blues performer Junior Kimbrough took a different path from his contemporaries, opting for electric guitars, amplified sound and a full band. His music was dubbed "Cottonpatch Blues" by rockabilly artist Charlie Feathers. He had performed in the 1960s and '70s, but did not record his music until the 1980s. Kimbrough began hosting house parties, drawing musicians to the weekly jam sessions before opening his own nightclub in Holly Springs.
Fife and drum bands may have originated in Europe but the musical style set down roots in north Mississippi. American fife and drum blues has been popular in the hill country of Mississippi and Tennessee for decades. The style blends military marches, African drum traditions, minstrel tunes, slave songs and traditional blues. Jessie Mae Hemphill's grandfather Sid Hemphill and Othar (Otha) Turner are some of the most noted fife and drum blues musicians. "Shimmy She Wobble" by Napoleon Strickland was recorded by Turner and his Rising Star Fife and Drum Band. The song was featured in the 2002 film "Gangs of New York."
Denise LaSalle, Queen of Soul Blues, was a prolific songwriter and recording artist who had a number of hit rhythm and blues songs in the 1970s, including "Trapped By a Thing Called Love" and "Man Sized Job." In addition, she has written songs over the last several decades that became hits for other artists in various genres, including "Married, But Not to Each Other" by country singer Barbara Mandrell. While LaSalle had success in other genres, "Mississippi Woman" is a reflection of her true blues roots.
Jarekus Singleton, a Clinton native, is one of several Mississippi artists paving the way to the future of the blues. "High Minded," a song from Singleton's 2013 album, "Refuse to Lose," blends sensual guitar licks and the moans of a Hammond B3 organ with traditional 12-bar blues and a slice of '70s Texas rock. Singleton may be relatively new to the scene, but he's already making a mark.
Best lyrics: "All Gave Some, Some Gave All / Some stood through for the red, white and blue / And some had to fall / And if you ever think of me / Think of all your liberties and recall / Some Gave All."
Last week, Oxford, Miss.-based independent record label Fat Possum Records teamed up with Amazon Music to release a 10-album collection of previously unearthed blues cuts called Worried Blues. Each record highlights a different artist, ranging from Delta blues originators like Skip James and Bukka White to lesser-know performers like Furry Lewis and Honeyboy Edwards. With such an expansive set of new old music to discover, and considering the seemingly endless troves of blues history, we decided to create this entry point to the originators of the genre with the 15 best Delta blues songs.
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