Inspiration
& dedication:
If
I should write the 67 most important names to me, here they are.
The
Blues is a Feeling
The Blues in School - Name Lessons .
Written
and compiled by Dan Klarskov.
1.
Delta Blues.
Charlie “Charley”
Patton (1891-1934) Eddie James
“Son” House (1902-1988) Robert
Leroy Johnson
(1911-1938)
2.
Chicago/ Big City Blues.
Early Big City Blues:
Alfonzo "Lonnie"
Johnson (1894-1970) Leroy
Carr (1905-1935) “Memphis
Minnie” McCoy (1897-1973)
John Lee Curtis Sonny Boy Williamson I. (1914-1948)
Big City Blues:
Mathis James "Jimmy"
Reed (1925-1976) McKinley Morganfield “Muddy
Waters” (1913-1983) Elmore
James (1918-1963) Chester Arthur Burnett “Howlin`
Wolf” (1910-1976) John
Lee Hooker (1917-2001) Aleck "Rice" Miller “Sonny
Boy Williamson” II. (1899-1965) Sam "Lightnin"
Hopkins (1912-1982) Willie Mae "Big
Mama" Thornton (1926-1984) Marion “Little”
Walter Jacobs (1930-1968)
The
"New" generation of Big City Blues:
Otis Rush (1934)
George "Buddy"
Guy (1936) Amos Blakemore ”Junior
Wells” (1934-1998) Otis
Spann (1930-1970) Sam "Magic
Sam" Maghett (1937-1969) Albert
Collins (1932-1993) Cora “KoKo
Taylor” Walton (1935)
3.
West coast/ Swing og Jump Blues.
James Andrew
“Jimmy” Rushing (1901-1972) Joseph Vernon “Big
Joe” Turner (1911-1985) Louis
Jordan (1908-1975) Aaron Thibeaux “T-Bone”
Walker (1910-1975) Ruth Lee “Dinah
Washington“ Jones (1924-1963) James “Jimmy”
Witherspoon (1920-1997) Roy
Brown (1925-1981) Charles
Brown (1920-1999)
4.
Trad. Jazz og Blues/ New Orleans.
Joe
"King" Oliver (1885-1938) Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett
”Ma”
Rainey (1882-1939)
Bessie Smith
(1892-1937) Louis
“Satchmo” Armstrong
(1901-1971) Edward "Kid"
Ory (1886-1973) Sidney
Bechet (1897-1959) William Thomas “Champion
Jack” Dupree (1908-1992)
5.
Funky Blues/ Second Line Beat. New Orleans.
Henry Roeland Byrd “Professor
Longhair” (1918-1980)
The Fynky Meters (Neville Brothers) Ellias McDaniel “Bo
Diddley” (1928-2008) James
Joseph Brown (1933-2006)
6.
New York Groove Blues.
Guitar: Kenneth Earl
“Kenny”
Burrell (1931) Grant
Green (1935-1979)
Organ: James Oscar
“Jimmy”
Smith (1925-2005) James Harrell ”Jimmy”
McGriff (1936)
7.
Soul Blues. Memphis.
Riley "Beale Street Blues Boy" “B.B.”
King (1925) Robert Calvin “Bobby
Blue" Bland (1930)
"Little” Milton Campbell (1934-2005) Aretha
Louise Franklin
(1942) Arziel “Z.Z.”
Hill (1935-1984) Robert
Cray (1953)
8.
Blues Rock.
John Murray Mayall
(1933) James Marshall “Jimmy”
Hendrix (1942-1970) Eric
Patrick Clapton
(1945) Peter
Allen Greenbaum “Green”
(1946) John Dawson
“Johnny” Winter (1944) Stephen
"Stevie" Ray Vaughan (1954-1990) Robert William Gary
Moore (1952)
9.
Country og Folk Blues.
Huddie William
"Lead Belly"
Ledbetter (1888-1949) "Blind"
Lemon Jefferson (1897-1929) William Lee Conley "Big
Bill" Broonzy (1893-1958) Fulton Allen “Blind
Boy Fuller” (1907-1941) Saunders Terrell “Sonny
Terry” (1911-1986) og Walter "Brownie"
McGhee (1915-1996) Woodrow Wilson ”Woody”
Guthrie (1912-1967) Hiram "Hank"
King Williams
(1923-1953)
Of course there is many more classic blues innovators,
but here is the 67 most important artist`s to me.
Blues
Educators
The Blues foundation
Blues
in the Schools
By Children in
USA.
Blues in School
Pacific Northwest ,
USA.
Here's what a psychotherapist has
to say about BITS (Blues in the schools)
"Yes, children got the blues. I remember when I was a kid.
Mom and Dad had a great big fight, and sometime I spend a lot of
time on my own,
yes I had the blues when I was a kid"
Dan Klarskov
Slide show "written" and compiled by Dan
Klarskov.
(Of course, there is many more classic blues innovators, but here
is the 67 most important artist`s to me)