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The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by adding electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes saxophone to the basic guitar/harmonica Delta blues. The music developed mainly as a result of the "Great Migration" of poor black workers from the South into the industrial cities of the North such as Chicago in particular, in the first half of the twentieth century. Image File history File links Circle-question. ... Delta blues are named for the Mississippi Delta. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar (often from (1900 to 1999 in common usage). ... United States may refer to: Places: United States of America SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... Left: Rosa Hurricane, a heavy metal-style solid body guitar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a bass string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, or using a pick. ... The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that most often follows a twelve-bar structure. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... Left: Rosa Hurricane, a heavy metal-style solid body guitar. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a bass string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, or using a pick. ... The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Delta blues are named for the Mississippi Delta. ... The states in blue had the ten largest net gains of African-Americans during the Great Migration, while the states in red had the ten largest net losses[1]. The Great Migration was the movement of over 1 million[1] African Americans out of the rural Southern United States from... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar (often from (1900 to 1999 in common usage). ...

Chicago Blues has a more extended palette of notes than the standard six-note blues scale; often, notes from the major scale are added, which gives the music a more "jazz feel" whilst still being in the confines of the blues genre. This is not, however, as prominent as Texas blues, which contains many other notes such as the major 3rd and major 6th. Chicago blues is also known for its heavy rolling bass. In music a hexatonic scale is a scale with six (hexa) degrees. ... In music theory, the major scale is one of the diatonic scales. ... A major third is the larger of two commonly occuring musical intervals that span three diatonic scale degrees. ... Generally speaking, a sixth chord is any chord which contains the interval of a sixth. ...

Another notable point is that Chicago blues contains many dominant 9th chords, and the scales usually contain 9th notes. Note that a 2nd is the same as a 9th (The notoriously confusing '9=2' that many chord charts show is showing this fact), and this is especially emphasized on guitar, which it is much more difficult to span octaves, versus a piano. In music or music theory a ninth is the note nine scale degrees from the root of chord and also the interval between the root and the ninth. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... For the numerical computation software, see GNU Octave. ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ...

Notable Chicago blues musicians

Below is a list of notable Chicago blues musicians (and groups) alphabetized by first name (or stage name):

Big Bill Broonzy (1893 or 1898-1958) was a prolific United States composer, recorder and performer of blues songs. ... Big Maceo Merriweather (b. ... Big Walter Horton (born April 6, 1918 - died December 8, 1981) was an African American blues harmonica player. ... Boston Blackie was a character introduced by Jack Boyle who was featured in a series of mystery films during the silent movie era and in the 1940s. ... George Buddy Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues and rock guitarist and singer. ... Cover of Charlie Musselwhites Stand Back album Charlie Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944 in Kosciusko, Mississippi) is an American blues harp (harmonica) player and band leader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield. ... Carey Bell (November 14, 1936 - May 6, 2007) was an American musician who played the harmonica in the musical style of Chicago blues. ... Sigel-Schwall Band is the name of a blues band from Chicago, Illinois. ... David Honeyboy Edwards on cover of APO CD 2010 David Honeyboy Edwards (born June 28, 1915 in Shaw, Mississippi, United States) is a Delta blues guitarist and singer. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Dion Payton is a Chicago-based blues guitarist and singer, who gained great popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Chicago blues clubs, including Kingston Mines, Blue Chicago and other venues. ... Earl Hooker (January 15, 1929 – April 21, 1970) was an African American blues guitarist. ... Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer. ... Elmore James (January 27, 1918 – May 24, 1963) was an American blues singer and guitarist. ... Fenton Robinson (b. ... Freddie King (September 3, 1934 – December 28, 1976) was an influential American blues guitarist and singer, best known for his recordings Hide Away, Have You Ever Loved A Woman and Going Down. // King was born Frederick Christian in Gilmer, Texas on September 3, 1934. ... James A. Williamson, known as Homesick James, (b. ... Theodore Roosevelt Hound Dog Taylor (April 12, 1915 - December 17, 1975) was an American blues guitarist and singer. ... Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), better known as Howlin Wolf or sometimes, The Howlin Wolf, was an influential blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. ... Hubert Sumlin (November 16, 1931) is a blues guitar player known as a both a solo artist and central element in Howlin Wolfs backup band. ... J. B. Lenoir was born on March 5, 1929 in Monticello, Mississippi. ... James Jimmy Cotton (born July 1, 1935 in Tunica, Mississippi), is an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter who is the bandleader for the James Cotton Blues Band. ... James Henry Jimmy Dawkins (born 24 October 1936) is a blues guitarist and singer. ... Jimmy Johnson may refer to: Jimmy Johnson (musician), guitarist, producer Jimmy Johnson (American football) (1938- ), American football player Jimmy Johnson (American football coach) (1943- ), American football coach Jimmie Johnson (1975- ), NASCAR race driver Jimmy Johnson (bassist) Jimmy Johnson (cartoonist) Jimmie Johnson (American football) (1968- ), American football player James A. Johnson... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... John Brim (1922-2003) may be best-known for writing and cutting the original Ice Cream Man that David Lee Roth and Van Halen covered on their first album. ... John Primer, ( born in Camden, Mississippi on 3 May 1946), is an american blues singer and guitarist. ... Johnny Shines (1915-1992) was an American blues guitarist. ... J. T. Brown was born on April 2nd, 1918 in Mississippi. ... Junior Wells (December 9, 1934 – January 15, 1998), born Amos Blakemore, was a blues vocalist and harmonica player based in Chicago who was famous for playing with Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Magic Sam, Lonnie Brooks, The Rolling Stones and Van Morrison. ... Joe McCoy (born May 11, 1905 – died January 28, 1950) was an African American blues musician. ... Koko Taylor (Undated photograph) Koko Taylor sometimes called KoKo Taylor (born September 28, 1935 as Cora Walton, on a farm just outside Memphis, Tennessee) is an American blues musician, popularly known as the Queen of the Blues. ... Kokomo Arnold (15 February 1901–8 November 1968) was an American blues musician. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Lonnie Brooks (December 18, 1933-) is an American blues singer and guitarist. ... Luther Allison (August 17, 1939–August 12, 1997) was an American blues guitarist. ... Lurrie Bell（December 13, 1958 - ) is a blues guitarist and singer from Chicago, Illinois, USA. His father was renowned blues harmonica player Carey Bell. ... Magic Sam was born Sam Maghett (February 2, 1937) in Grenada, Mississippi, USA (died December 12, 1969) and was a blues guitarist and singer. ... The blues singer and guitarist, Magic Slim, along with Magic Sam, is one of the best known representative of the West Side Chicago blues. ... The original Mighty Joe Young movie poster. ... For the astronaut, see Michael J. Bloomfield Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American musician, guitarist and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, into a well-off Jewish family on Chicagos North Side. ... McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1915 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered the Father of Chicago blues. He is also the actual father of blues musician Big Bill Morganfield. ... Otis Rush (born April 29, 1934 in Philadelphia, Mississippi) is a blues musician and guitarist. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Papa Charlie McCoy (born May 26, 1909 - died July 26, 1950) was an African American blues musician. ... Paul Butterfield (December 17, 1942 – May 4, 1987) was an American blues harmonica player and singer, and one of the earliest Caucasian exponents of the Chicago-originated electric blues style. ... Pinetop Perkins (born Joe Willie Perkins in 1913) is an American blues musician from Mississippi. ... Robert Lee McCollum (30 November 1909–5 November 1967) was an American bluesman who played and recorded under the names Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk. ... Robert Lockwood Jr. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Snooky Pryor, born James Edward Pryor on September 15, 1921 in Lambert, Mississippi, pioneered the thicker, amplified sound of blues harmonica. ... Frank Son Seals (August 13, 1942 -December 20, 2004) was an American blues guitarist and singer. ... There were 2 popular blues harmonica players that went by the name Sonny Boy Williamson Sonny Boy Williamson I, also known as John Lee Williamson was an American blues harmonica player, born in Jackson, Tennessee, whose first record Good Morning, School Girl was a hit in 1937. ... Albert Sunnyland Slim Luandrew (September 5, 1907–1995), was a blues pianist born on a farm near Vance, Mississippi. ... Vince Agwada: Blues guitarist/singer/songwriter Vince AgwadaBorn: May 8, 1959 hails from Chicago, Illinois. ... Willie Dixons style of blues was one of the inspirations for a new generation of music, rock and roll. ...

See also

• Chicago record labels
• Maxwell Street

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External links

• Chicago Blues Playlist

• France Jean Baptiste

• [1] Chicago blues example and lesson.
• Windy City Blues Internet Radio Station Featuring The Best In Chicago Blues Plus Other Blues Greats