Chess Records and Chicago Blues History Fair Documentary

This is a documentary produced with a friend for the Chicago History Fair. It outlines the blues' roots and how it changed in Chicago to become what blues is known as today.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Blues
• Chicago
• Chess
• Records
• Buddy
• Guy
• Rolling
• Stones
• Robert
• Johnson
• Howlin
• Wolf
• Clapton
• Eric
• Crossroads
• History
• Fair

[2agray]

Robert Johnson was NOT one of the first blues recording artists. 1920 was the year it became commercialized and recorded with Mamie Smith. Need to do some more homework.

[fessormojo]

The Delta Blues refers to the 120 mile long (90 miles at the widest) leave-shaped alluvial plain from as they say , "the lobby of the Peabody Hotel to Catfish row in Vicksburg." It is the richest soil on the planet as it was built by the overflow of the Yazoo River and the Mississippi River and bounded by bluffs on the East (Loess hills) and on the Arkansas side by more bluffs.

It is the Mississippi Delta NOT the Delta of the Mississippi River 300 miles further South.

[slideharp1]

..It's an idiotic perseverance to keep ripping into something uniquely hybrid and simply barking up the wrong tree when people are looking for traces of "purity" to give a pointless explanation of it's existence. It's the work of nutcases who want more meaning than is there and would make no difference anyway. People play and listen to music 'cos it's there. We take it for granted as we always have done and always will because it's da natural thing to do. Not 'cos we're fuckin anthropologists.

[slideharp1]

@paulandj ..and those slaves on ships would've heard shanties, hollers, hornpipes and ballads. "Ethnomusicologists" (an American endeavor) keep looking for The Source of the blues by rummaging around W.Africa like it's some type of life quest - like it's the source of the Nile or something.. The blues is American music, played/sung by black southerners who are Of their environment. Everything American is being broken into supposed component parts for analysis, which is pointless

[slideharp1]

@paulandj You're on a deeply-disturbed trip. Taking the Credit for great artists, whoever you think you are. Call and response chants and hollers were never exclusive to slaves working fields. Work songs have been around since long before the Americas were even discovered. And amongst the most prominent were sea shanties (Chant-eys) and there were hundreds of them. A shanty man did the calling and rest responded. A good shantyman was well in. Country/mountain music came from Ireland.

[slideharp1]

@FraterSoddi You're right, The Magic Band played the most unique style of pure blues, especially when Ry Cooder was with them. And after he left, they moved ahead with a wild blues sound/rhythm. No-one else has played like that, tho' there were young bands in NY in the 90s who were influenced by them.

[THEMOJOMANsince1959]

@slideharp1 Funny to me all this Jabbering about who did what and when,,none of you really know,,,Music just evolves. Such as: There was a rockabilly singer in Texas named Buddy Holly,,One day he either saw or heard Bo Diddley play,,,he got himself some blackrimmed glasses and ther rest is history. EVOLVES

[THEMOJOMANsince1959]

@SuperOlds88 Meaningless ??? I think it's cool.

[THEMOJOMANsince1959]

@howlingsandy You got that right!!

[paulandj]

@THEMOJOMANsince1959 Country music came from the Blues. Blues came about in the slave fields with call and response chants. Country music is even reffered to as "the white mans blues". Yall didn't influence Black people to do shit, just took all the credit. African Americans invented just about every form of music in North America. Yall still doin it look at Adele the other night with all them fuckin grammys, she ain't doin shit fat black women ain't been doin since the slavery days.

[paulandj]

@THEMOJOMANsince1959 Lmao what the fuck are you talkin about?

[Rattler32114]

One thing I have notice  is the reluctance and downright arrogance of some to minimize the history of this music.