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Intro

TraditionalElectric

The 1920s was witness to a Black workers' emigration from life on the Delta; Black workers left behind rural plantation life and headed into urban centers, North, West and East, which promised a higher quality of life. Both this urbanization, which shifted the geographical focus of blues away from its traditional Southern Roots, and the invention of the electric guitar (which had gained popularity in the Jazz Big Bands of 1930s) gave birth to the adoption of the electric guitar into Blues. Early Traditional Electric Blues traces include West Coast Blues guitarist T-Bone Walker (originally form Texas), who began experimenting with the electric guitar in the mid 1930s in Los Angeles. While in the 1940s, in Memphis, Memphis Minnie, Muddy Waters and Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup in Chicago, in Texas, Sam 'Lightnin Hopkins and in Detroit, John Lee Hooker. Through the 1950s-1970s, Traditional Electric Blues paved the way for other genres including Rock N' Roll, R&B, Soul and Classic Rock many artists of which continued to expand the aesthetic potential of the Blues by applying more contemporary instrumentation to it, all the while upholding the essential components of Blues music in their compositions. Electric blues is a type of Traditional Blues music distinguished by the amplification of the guitar, bass guitar and often the harmonica.

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Parents	Blues	Characterized by a loose narrative lyrical style, use of call-and-response, the blues scale and blue notes, a small set of common chord progressions, and trance-like walking basslines. Originated in African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States in the late 19th century.
Belongs to AVS	avs:SubGenre	A Type of SubGenre.

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