1. The Blues

2. What is the blues? Origin is unknown
Started as a form of black folk music
Early blues players were outcasts of the community

3. Characteristics of The Blues
12 Bar blues
Lyrics

4. Blind Lemon Jefferson

6. Lightning Hopkins

8. Tbone

9. “And now, at this time we would like to do something we’re sure that each and everyone can understand, and that’s the blues… everyone can understand the blues.”
- Ray Charles

12. Johnny Winter

14. “ If you could play an instrument or can sing you were allowed up to the mic, it was like a competition but with no prizes involved… only the attitude.”
- Al Reed

15. Stevie Ray Vaughn

22. Albert King

23. “The music we play, me, BB king, people like that, that music is roots
“The music we play, me, BB king, people like that, that music is roots. It all comes from the blues.”
- Johnny Lee Hooker

32. Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jam Session

33. BB King

34. “When you aint got no money, you’ve got the blues, when you aint got no money to pay the rent, you still got the blues. A lot of people holler I don’t like no blues but when you aint got no money, and cant pay the rent and you cant buy no food, you damn sure got the blues.”
- Howlin’ Wolf

37. “See my blues are not as easy to play as some people think they are, I may have 13 beats in some songs, and the average man, he not used to that sort of thing”
– Muddy waters

41. Lucille

42. “I woke up this morning black snake was making such a ruckus in my room. And It’s called The Black Snake Moan.”
- Blind Lemon Jefferson

43. Janis Joplin

45. “ You know there’s only one blues though
“ You know there’s only one blues though. That’s the regular 12 bar pattern, then you interpret off of that. You cant dress up the blues.”
- T-Bone Walker