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Top Three Blues Instrumental Music Songs

Top Three Blues Instrumental Music Songs By Aaron McLain What are the best blues instrumental music tracks? It’s a great question. Blues and lyrics go hand in hand, but what if you want just the blues without all the words? With that question in mind I set out to find the best instrumentals buried amongst […]

For Blues Guitarist – Blues Guitar Chords & Progression

For Blues Guitarist – Blues Guitar Chords & Progression By Zack Roberts Learning how to play and improvise great blues riffs and licks is not as easy as it might seem to a novice but the one good thing is that focused learning and practicing with a great blues backing track will help a lot […]

The Development of Blues Music

The Development of Blues Music By Liam Gibson Jazz, rock music and country and western are just some of the styles that owe a lot of their progression from the original blues. The contribution of Blues music to the development of many other genres of music is very significant. Blues was originally grown out of […]

The Origins of Blues and How Blues Music Is Still Relevant Today

The Origins of Blues and How Blues Music Is Still Relevant Today By Xan Sillem Blues  is hard to overstate the significance of the blues in modern and contemporary music. Almost all forms of popular music today are characterized by blues influences, whether it be from Adele or the Black Keys, or from the Beatles to […]

Blues Music – American Granddaddy of Music Styles

Blues Music – American Granddaddy of Music Styles By Gene Morgan What does American music sound like? You know what the music of Germany, Spain, Ireland, Japan, and many of the other countries of the world sounds like. Each country with it’s own distinctive culture has an identifiable musical sound that comes from that culture. But […]