Blues, Rhythm and Blues, and Blues-Rock

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T BONE!!! The original. A friend of jazz guitar great Charlie Christian, who introduced him to his guitar teacher, Ralph "Big Foot Chuck" Hamilton. So guitar solos pretty much sprung up from two dudes who learned from a single person. Pretty crazy.
 
VonBonfire said:
T BONE!!! The original. A friend of jazz guitar great Charlie Christian, who introduced him to his guitar teacher, Ralph "Big Foot Chuck" Hamilton. So guitar solos pretty much sprung up from two dudes who learned from a single person. Pretty crazy.
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Interesting, never considered that Jazz came from Blues...

Was it only T Bone that held his guitar that way or was it common?
 
Bad Brain said:
Interesting, never considered that Jazz came from Blues...
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100 percent. If you trace back to the 12 bar format you basically are at WC Handy who copied Yellow Dog Blues/Yellow Dog Rag off some dude picking guitar at a train station. At least, that's the story. Both genres kind of run in conjunction, there is a lot of crossover there especially in earlier years 1920-30.

"Jazz-Blues" is just applied chord substitutions to those same basic I-IV-V changes. Most music sucks now because dudes no longer comprehend, or care, about blues. Jazz has especially taken a hit since it is basically collegiate egghead music that no longer cares about the blues roots and so much of it sounds like some crap a few dudes would blow in a practice space, not something an audience would listen to. Once a music isn't of the people off the street it no longer has a connection to the average listener.

Bad Brain said:
Was it only T Bone that held his guitar that way or was it common?
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Just T-Bone far as I know.
 
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