1. The Blues

2. Mississippi Delta Blues tradition WC Handy The Blues

3. Bessie Smith’s autobiographical confession sensitive interpretation and broad phrasing perfect intonation and blue-note inflections wide, expressive range Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out By Bessie Smith

4. The Blues bottle neck slide technique 12 bar structure and I IV V chords lyrics have double entendres Come on In My Kitchen By Robert Johnson

5. The Blues slide striking to keep the beat accenting beat 2 or half off beat "I got up this morning..." clichéd text Walkin’ Blues By Robert Johnson

6. The Blues most famous and influential songs more chord changes strumming car = woman = sexual metaphor? Terraplane Blues By Robert Johnson

7. The Blues small band, electric guitar, and harmonica small amplifier distorts sound; sometimes smooth, sometimes raucous Muddy’s voice slides up and down notes like the slide guitar very sexual I Got My Mojo Working By Muddy Waters

8. The Blues originally by Howlin’ Wolf covered by many including: The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Animals, The Grateful Dead, and George Thorgood the rhyming scheme is mostly abandoned consequently, the lyrics are often re-worked Smokestack Lightning By Muddy Waters

9. The Blues boogie woogie guitar style up-tempo shuffle rhythm electric guitar classic Chicago style blues One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer By John Lee Hooker

10. The Blues recurring riff groove on a single rhythm declamatory style of singing strong bass support imitation traditional symbols (train, woman, another man) Smokestack Lightning By The Yardbirds

11. The Blues Eric Clapton singing; best vocalist of the group the band sounds young and tentative slavish but earnest imitation of traditional blues Clapton’s guitar hints at the instrumental aggressiveness/virtuosity to come beginning of “psychedelic blues” Crossroads By Cream