1950's Music

Hi everybody!

I have decided to make a post about one of music styles, which has been first discovered in 1950's and the name of this genre of music is Blues.
I've never payed attention on this genre of music, but I did some research and I picket two songs I liked. The first one is Muddy Waters and his song "Got My Mojo Workin'"and the second song I liked is "Rockin' The Blues" by Wynonie Harris.

I've never payed attantion on this genre of music, but I did some research and I picket two songs I liked. The first one is Muddy Waters and his song "Got My Mojo Workin'"and the second song I liked is "Rockin' The Blues" by Wynonie Harris.

The blues genre is based on the blues form, but include some other characteristics such as bass lines, instruments and lyrics. The Internet research says: "The blues takes many forms... It is variously a feeling, a mood, a nameless threat, a person, a lover, a boss man, a mob, and, of course, the Devil himself. It is often experienced as both cause and effect, action and reaction, and it can be used as both hex and counterhex, poison and antidote, pain and relief. Most importantly, the blues is both the cause of song, and song itself..." 

So...Blues was born in XIX century in Delta (that's where the style "Delta blues" coming from). Blues isn't a romantic genre of music, as many people would think. It is a kind of sad style of songs, because if you listen to lyrics in first songs, you would here a lot of complains to life and loneliness. Actually something about blues poetics, so you don't have the impression that the blues - some art spoiled, vicious and narrow-minded people, it should be noted is that people, whatever their life did't always hope. They are always waiting for love, suffer without it. Their destiny - loneliness and search for other people, another heart. Blues about it. 

Like jazz, rock and roll, heavy metal, hip-hop, reggae, country and pop music, blues has been accused that this genre is a "devil music".

The most common instruments in blues are guitar and harmonica, as well as saxophone and trumpet. Muddy Waters used piano, guitars, harmonica, contrabass and vocals. Wynonie Harris to make his song "Rockin' The Blues" used vocals, contrabass, piano, saxophone and clapping people :)