Soul blues is a style of Blues is a vocal and instrumental musical form which evolved from African American spirituals, shouts, work songs and chants and has its earliest stylistic roots in West Africa. Blues has been a major influence on later American and Western popular music, finding expression in ragtime, jazz, big bands, rhythm and... blues music developed in the early late Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. Many of the trends of... 1960s and 1970s - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes.css; @import /skins/monobook/IE55Fixes.css; @import /skins/monobook/IE60Fixes.css; /**/ 1970s From Wikipedia Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of... 1970s and combining eliments of For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). Soul music is fundamentally rhythm and blues, which grew out of the African-American gospel and blues traditions during the late 1950s and early 1960s in the United States. Over time, much of the broad range of R&B extensions in African... soul music and urban contemporary music. Singers and musicians who grew up listening traditional electric blues ( McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1915 - April 30, 1983) is better known as Muddy Waters. He was an American blues musician and is generally considered the father of Chicago blues. Muddy Waters at a young age. Waters was first recorded on a Mississippi Delta plantation by Alan Lomax for a series... Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed (September 6, 1925 - August 29, 1976) was a United States blues singer, notable for bringing his distinctive style of blues to mainstream audiences. He was born in Dunleith, Mississippi in 1925, learning the harmonica and guitar from Eddie Taylor, a close friend. After spending several years performing in... Jimmy Reed, Elmore James (January 27, 1918 - May 24, 1963) was an American blues singer and guitarist. He was born Elmore Brooks in Richland, Mississippi, just south of Jackson, and began playing as a teen under the names Cleanhead and Joe Willie James. At this time, he played with traveling musicians like... Elmore James etc.), soul singers (such as Sam Cooke Sam Cooke (January 22, 1931 - December 11, 1964) was a massively popular gospel music and R&B singer, born Sam Cook in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He started his musical career as a member of a quartet with his siblings, the Soul Children, followed by a teenage turn as... Sam Cooke, Ray Charles at the piano. Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), commonly known as Ray Charles, was a pioneering pianist and soul singer whom Frank Sinatra called the only genius in the business. He helped shape the sound of rhythm and blues and brought a soulful... Ray Charles and Otis Redding) and Gospel music may refer either to the religious music that first came out of African-American churches in the 1930s or, more loosely, to both black gospel music and to the religious music composed and sung by white southern Christian artists. While the separation between the two styles was... Gospel music wanted to bridge their favorite music together. One of the pioneers of this style was Bobby Blue Bland (born January 27, 1930) is an American singer and was an original member of The Beale Streeters. He released a couple of unsuccessful singles for Chess Records in 1951 and Modern Records in 1952. That year, Bland entered the Army and returned to music upon his discharge... Bobby Bland and the song "The Thrill Is Gone" by Riley B. King aka B. B. King (b.September 16, 1925), a well known American blues guitarist and songwriter. One of Kings trademarks is naming his guitars Lucille, a tradition that began in the 1950s. In the winter of 1949, King played at a dance hall in Twist, Arkansas... BB King was a hint for future trends in this subgenre. Additional musicians in this style include Z. Z. Hill (born Arzell Hill September 30, 1935 in Naples, Texas - April 27, 1984 in Dallas) was an American blues singer, in the Soul blues tradition, known for his 1970s and 80s records for Malaco. His Down Home Blues (1982) stayed on the charts for nearly two years. The... ZZ Hill, Otis Clay, Latimore, Little Milton, Johnny Adams, Solomon Burke (b. March 21, 1936) is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and important country and soul music pioneer. He began his adult life as a preacher in Philadelphia, and soon moved on to hosting a gospel radio show. In the 1960s, he signed with Atlantic Records and... Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett (born March 18, 1941, in Prattville, Alabama) was an American soul singer who began his career with The Falcons in the early 1960s. He signed as a solo artist with Atlantic Records and recorded In the Midnight Hour (1965), one of the earliest distinctively soul songs, and perhaps... Wilson Pickett, Bobby Rush (born November 10, American blues and R&B musician, composer and singer. He was born Emmit Ellis Jr. in Homer, Louisiana. His family relocated to Chicago in 1953, where he became part of the local blues scene. He later created his own brand of R&B... Bobby Rush and Johnny Taylor. Soul blues saw its popularity rise in Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology Bulletin board system popularity Popularization of personal computers, Walkmans, VHS videocassette recorders, and compact disc (CD) players Introduction of the IBM PC Home video games become enormously popular, most notably Atari until the market crashes in 1983; the rise... 1980s Bobby Blue Bland (born January 27, 1930) is an American singer and was an original member of The Beale Streeters. He released a couple of unsuccessful singles for Chess Records in 1951 and Modern Records in 1952. That year, Bland entered the Army and returned to music upon his discharge... Bobby Bland continues with this style. This is a sub-genre within the blues genre which is very popular with African American audiences but less known by white audiences.