Detroit Blues

The Detroit blues is from Detroit, Michigan, native style of the blues, like the Chicago Blues was born in the 1920s and 1930s, similar in that the impoverished black working population from the south, from the Delta blues musicians recruited in the large cities of the Midwest migrated. In Detroit, the scene focused on the Black Bottom neighborhood.

The Detroit Blues differs from its predecessor, the Delta Blues by electrically amplified instruments and by the choice of instruments, such as bass guitar and piano.

The world's only successful representative of the Detroit Blues was John Lee Hooker, as the record label, the Detroit Blues neglected altogether in favor of the more common and more influential Chicago blues.

Typical representatives

• John Lee Hooker
• Alberta Adams
• Andre Williams
• Big Maceo Merriweather
• Bobo Jenkins
• Calvin Frazier
• Eddie Burns
• Joe Weaver
• Johnnie Bassett
• Nolan Strong & The Diablos