Texas Blues

The Texas Blues is a form of country blues, which originated in the 1920s in the impoverished black communities Texas cities such as Dallas, San Antonio and Houston. The most imaginative lyrics tell a story with wit and come more to the fore as for example, when Delta Blues, who remains more traditional topics. The full, chord emphasized guitar playing style is more of a unit than a dialogue with the singing, which has a pronounced melody. Artists, especially guitarists, the Texas blues are considered experimental and more sophisticated in their play. Such a strong, uniform, regional stylistics as in the Mississippi Delta blues can still not seen in the southern United States due to the more diverse demographic characteristics.

History

Originally, the singers were accompanied melody on acoustic guitar, a relaxed and swinging playing style is typical of the Texas blues. Known representatives of this original style are Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leadbelly, Lightnin ' Hopkins and T -Bone Walker. Jefferson is a pioneer of the one-string guitar solos. His protégé Walker paved in the 1940s paved the way for the electrically amplified guitar in blues and thus influenced the development of the R & B and, subsequently, the rock music prevail. The originally more delicate blues evolved into a powerful and played on electric guitar blues style with its characteristic jazzy phrases, swinging - synkopierender rhythm section and excessive use half diminished and diminished seventh chords. In the 1970s, the Texas blues then elements of rock music took on, for example, played distorted electric guitars (ZZ Top, see blues-rock ).

Stevie Ray Vaughan presented the Texas blues in the 1980s as a virtuoso played blues style with a small line-up (drums, electric bass, electric guitar, electric organ ), sometimes supplemented by some horn sections, but mainly dominated by the guitar. Another typical example of this Blue style in the late 20th century is Johnny Winter.

Important Texas blues musicians

Other well-known representative of the Texas blues musicians have included Blind Lemon Jefferson, Freddie King, Albert Collins, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Johnny Winter, ZZ Top and Mance Lipscomb.

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