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Muleskinner Blues
- Jimmy Rodgers
- 1931
- first country music superstar
- ability to use the guitar as a solo instrument
- "the blue yodel"
- 12 bar blues style
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cotton eyed joe
- bob wills and his texas playboys
- 1946
- updated square dance
- adapted for swing dancing
- fiddle and steel guitar
-
Im so lonesome i could cry
- hank williams
- 1949
- pionered honky tonk style
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I'm blue again
- Patsy Cline
- 1959
- pop backup singers
- 6 string electric bass, piano, electric guitar, drums, acoustic bass
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blue eyes cryin in the rain
- willie nelson
- cover of 1947 song
- neo-honkytonk
- outlaw country
-
muleskinner blues
- bill monroe and his bluegrass boys
- 1940
- fast tempos
- no banjo
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John Henry
- the lilly brothers with don stover
- mandolin and banjo
- african american folklore
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Rock Around the Clock
- Haley (1925-1981) and His Comets
- 1954
- The lyrics build on the R & B innovation of squeezing two lines of poetry into four bars of twelve-bar blues music. The poetic form is
- a a’
- b b’
- b’’
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That's Alright
- Elvis Presley
- 1954
- Rockabilly
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Prison Cell Blues
- Blind Lemon Jefferson
- texas blues
-
preachin blues
- Robert Johnson
- Delta Blues
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Countin the Blues
- Ma Rainey
- 1924
- Fletcher Henderson (1897-1952)
- Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) on cornet
-
Mr. Freddie Blues
- Lux Lewis
- 1936
- boogie-woogie
- no lyrics
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Good Rockin’ Tonight
- Wynonie “Blues” Harris
- 1947
- Rhythm and Blues
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