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Country blues
Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is one of the earliest forms of blues music, but also refers to a blend of country music and blues. The mainly solo
History#
Artists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson (Texas), Charley Patton (Mississippi), Blind Willie McTell (Georgia) were among the first to record blues songs in the 1920s. Country blues ran parallel to urban blues, which was popular in cities. In 1959, music historian Samuel Charters wrote The Country Blues, an influential scholarly work on the subject. He also produced an album, also titled The Country Blues, with early recordings by Jefferson, McTell, Sleepy John Estes, Bukka White, and Robert Johnson. Charters’s works helped to introduce the then-nearly forgotten music to the American folk music revival of the late 1950s and 1960s. The acoustic roots-focused movement also gave rise to the terms “folk blues” and “acoustic blues”, especially being applied to performances and recordings made around this period. “Country blues” has also been used to describe regional acoustic styles, such as Delta blues, Piedmont blues, Hill country blues or the earliest Chicago, Texas, and Memphis blues.
See also#
*List of country blues musicians
- Genre family
- 20th-century music genres, Blues music genres