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Post subject: Chicago blues
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:25 am
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The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois, by taking the basic acoustic guitar and harmonica-based Delta blues, making the harmonica louder with a microphone and an instrument amplifier, and adding electrically amplified guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano and sometimes saxophone and trumpet. The music developed in the first half of the twentieth century due to the Great Migration (African American) when Black workers moved from the South into the industrial cities of the North such as Chicago.

Originally, the Chicago Blues was street-corner based music. But after the music quickly gained popularity, it became a giant commercial enterprise. Soon the new style of music reached out and touched Europe, which led to many famous English rock n' roll bands to get their inspiration from the Chicago Blues.

At first, the Blues clubs in Chicago were filled with black performers, and the music itself was aimed for black audiences. Most of the Blues clubs were on the far south side of Chicago, so white people did not visit them. Later, however, more and more white audiences visited the clubs and listened to the music. This caused clubs to open up on the north side. In addition, more white men started playing the Blues after it became popular.

Chicago Blues has a more extended palette of notes than the standard six-note blues scale; often, notes from the major scale and dominant 9th chords are added, which gives the music a more of a "jazz feel" while remaining in the confines of the blues genre. Chicago blues is also known for its heavy rolling bass. Like Delta Blues, Chicago Blues often uses a harmonica and occasionally saxophones.

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Post subject: Re: Chicago blues
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 6:48 am
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...nice one SBLS


How about some Charlie Musselwhite... 8)
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 5:47 pm
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Does Otis Rush play with the low E at the bottom and the high E at the top? That's how it looks to me.

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Post subject: Re: Chicago blues
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:18 am
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Drew365 wrote:
Does Otis Rush play with the low E at the bottom and the high E at the top? That's how it looks to me.

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"Rush is left-handed and, unlike many other left-handed guitarists, plays a left-handed instrument strung upside-down with the low E string at the bottom. He played often with the little finger of his pick hand curled under the low E for positioning. It is widely believed that this contributes to his distinctive sound."
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Post subject: Re: Chicago blues
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:26 am
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Otis Rush- THE King of the Blues.

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Post subject: Re: Chicago blues
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:37 am
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Sorry for the interruption OP. BCB, I've wondered where you were. Have not heard from you in some time. Glad you are still around.

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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:55 am
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Lite'nin Hop! Yessir I am still around, I just havent been online in a while, I have been practicing a lot and working a bunch, not much time left for posting. All is well though, hope all is well on your end and with the rest of the Fender community.

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2 videos of Otis with a Strat!- Crosscut Saw-
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Post subject: Re: Chicago blues
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 9:06 am
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Lite'nin Hop! Yessir I am still around, I just havent been online in a while, I have been practicing a lot and working a bunch, not much time left for posting. All is well though, hope all is well on your end and with the rest of the Fender community.

It Takes Time- Otis Rush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hiqO5UC8YM

2 videos of Otis with a Strat!- Crosscut Saw-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56FTxA4F ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEp0cgPrdYA

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Post subject: Re: Chicago blues
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:52 pm
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You're golden Light'nin, good to see your post BCB. Here is one of Buddy when he was still a baby:

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Post subject: Re: Chicago blues
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:28 am
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bright lights, big city - Jimmy Reed
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Post subject: Re: Chicago blues
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:11 am
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I love some Chicago Jump blues!

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Post subject: Re: Chicago blues
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:17 pm
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Dust My Broom - Elmore James
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Post subject: Re: Chicago blues
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:05 am
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A lot of the rolling bass that you talk about SBLS is Chicago great Willie Dixon who is responsible for some of the greatest blues songs off all time such as Hootchie Cootchie Man,Red Rooster and other timeless greats.

I once had the honor of meeting him during his break period when he played here just a couple of years before he died.He was a huge man-like a mountain with legs-but he was very soft spoken.I asked him what he thought of Jimi's cover of Hootchie Cootchie Man and he said that he liked it.I also asked him if he ever met Jimi and he said"Yeah,he was a strange cat...but he was cool."

Willie's thumping bass lines were a indispensable component of the Chicago blues sound and like Pinetop Perkins was sought for piano work,Willie was sought out to play bass on countless Chess recordings as well as other Chicago blues recordings. His inimitatable bass runs provided the bottom for Chicago blues.

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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:20 am
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Can't beat Elmore for sheer anarchic fun.

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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:51 pm
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Mike Bloomfield " Blue's For Nothing "
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