MUSI 1530 Lecture Notes - Buddy Guy, Paul Butterfield, Ealing Jazz Club
Document Summary
Blues revival was in both europe and the us. Cover versions - 1950s, we discussed a small list of these. 60s 70s and are still happening in the present. Many of the cover artists from the 60s and. 70s were white musicians who covered songs from black artists from the 50s and earlier. The emergence of the guitar was one of the most popular of all the instruments: general timeline. 1956, muddy waters was one of the dominant blues performers in chicago, one of his promoters thought it would be wise to spread his music out across the country. Muddy waters and his band, did not have a following in the white media as did many other blues artists. At the apollo theatre, muddy waters and his band were booed off the stage. This was because he was playing music aimed towards the south; south music was much familiarized with farmers and rural life.
