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Chicago Blues
Learn all about different blues music styles in our online blues music forum here at Blues Talk! It's a free site dedicated to the preservation and evolution of blues music worldwide. The Chicago Blues began in the early 1900's. During this time many Blacks began migrating north for better opportunities and to escape the harsh racism of the South. These Blacks were partly responsible for bringing the blues to Chicago. Many famous blues artists were part of the Chicago Blues sound. The Chicago sound was unique because horns were being used as well as electric guitars. Muddy Waters was born in Mississippi in 1915. As a boy, he began his own sound on the harmonica which he called the "French harp." At seventeen, Waters ordered his first guitar from the Sears and Roebuck catalog. He began his career as a traveling musician who played on plantations. In 1940 he moved to St. Louis, in 1943 he moved to Chicago. Some of Muddy Water's greatest hits were "Rollin' and Tumblin," "Can't Be Satisfied," and "Hoochie Coochie Man." B. B. King was born in Mississippi in 1925. At the age of 16, he began to work in Memphis as a disc jockey on 1070 WDIA and a singer in local clubs. One of King's first recording was a cover of Lowell Fulson's song, "Three O'Clock Blues." Some of B. B. King's other hits include "Why I Sing the Blues," and "The Thrill Is Gone." business-gourmet-gift-baskets.com
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