Blues

Blues first sprouted in the closing decades of the nineteenth century on the cotton plantations of the Mississippi Delta, when work songs and spirituals wove melancholy and hope into the “devil’s music.” Twelve bars drawn from the blues scale, call-and-response vocals and bottleneck slide guitar turn every tune into a 4/4 confession. From Blind Lemon Jefferson’s rural lament to Muddy Waters’s electrified roar, the style migrated to the cities and went on to shape rock, jazz and soul. In this section you’ll rediscover the raw power of Muddy Waters – The King of Chicago Blues, the standards collected in The Best of Blues, an all-round panorama with Blues – 50 Songs, and the genre’s first recordings in Best of Blues – Original Blues Classics!