Blues Musicians Impact

Introduction:

This website will inform you on the impact of iconic blues musicians changing the initial sound of blues. Involved in this accidental situation were many blues musicians who outbroke in the 1940s, but specifically artists like Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Willie Dixon, Etta James, and many others. This situation occurred due to many different individuals migrating to Chicago and joining Chicagoans already in the area to create music, creating a new sound that was somewhat very much appreciated by the South and West communities of Chicago. Overall blues musicians came to Chicago and changed the initial sound of blues, causing conflict, which eventually became resolved due to how the new song created a relatable genre for black people.

Body Paragraphs: According to Primary and Secondary Sources collected blues has been altered and changed over the years creating different versions of blues, an offspring of the genre rock & roll, and much more all in efforts to create one body of music. In the song “Forty days & Forty nights” by Muddy Waters, it is clear that there is a brand new sound with the repetition of the harmonica by Little Walter all around Waters’ vocals, hitting number seven on Billboard Charts. Proving the new blues

"Without blues, there would be no rock and roll. Much of contemporary music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries owes a great debt to blues music.” In the “1920s: Music” article rock and roll was born in 1950, from the influence of artist typically from the blues and jazz genre. Demonstration of the genre rock and roll would be the very popular band; The Rolling Stones. The guitar notes used in rock and roll are almost identical to blues, and considering the fact that blues’ origin dates back further than rock and roll, there is no room to argue that blue was not co-creator of rock and