Stevie Ray Vaughan and BB King | Texas Flood
Live at SS Presidente, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 1988.
Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of "blue notes." It emerged in Black communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
Live at SS Presidente, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 1988.
Guy Davis performing "Walk On" at Music City Roots Live From The Factory on 3.22.2017
This song written and performed by bluesmaster John Lee Hooker was first released in 1965, performed here for the Seattle Folklore Society.
Starting with musical group Tinariwen in West Africa, Playing for Change traveled the world asking musicians to add to the song. A groove in the key of G transformed into a global jam with its roots in the blues.
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