which artist is representative of the detroit blues style
John Lee Hooker
Detroit blues Detroit blues is blues played by musicians residing in and around Detroit, Michigan, particularly in the 1940s and 1950s. Detroit blues originated when Delta blues performers migrated north from the Mississippi Delta and Memphis, Tennessee, to work in industrial plants in Detroit in the 1920s and 1930s. Typical Detroit blues is similar in style to Chicago blues. Its sound is distinguished from Delta blues by the use of electric amplified instruments and more varied instrumentation, including the bass guitar and piano. The only Detroit blues performer to achieve national fame was John Lee Hooker, as record companies and
Detroit blues
Detroit blues Detroit blues is blues played by musicians residing in and around Detroit, Michigan, particularly in the 1940s and 1950s. Detroit blues originated when Delta blues performers migrated north from the Mississippi Delta and Memphis, Tennessee, to work in industrial plants in Detroit in the 1920s and 1930s. Typical Detroit blues is similar in style to Chicago blues. Its sound is distinguished from Delta blues by the use of electric amplified instruments and more varied instrumentation, including the bass guitar and piano. The only Detroit blues performer to achieve national fame was John Lee Hooker, as record companies and
Detroit blues
still a blues artist, he was featured in an episode of The 700 Club where he detailed his drug addictions and imprisonments leading up to his conversion to Christianity and sobriety. That video clip can be found on YouTube. John Lee Hooker Jr. John Lee Hooker Jr. (born 1952) is an American blues musician. He is the son of influential blues singer John Lee Hooker (1912–2001). The younger Hooker's musical style is markedly modernized, featuring contemporary arrangements. Born in Detroit, Hooker was performing live on local radio stations by the time he was 8 years old, and toured with his
John Lee Hooker Jr.
and started recording mostly rock 'n' roll. Booker T. & the M.G.'s carried the electric blues style into the 1960s. Detroit-based John Lee Hooker pursued a unique brand of electric blues based on his deep rough voice accompanied by a single electric guitar. Though not directly influenced by boogie woogie, his "groovy" style is sometimes called "guitar boogie". His first hit, "Boogie Chillen", reached #1 on the R&B charts in 1949. He continued to play and record until his death in 2001. The New Orleans blues musician Guitar Slim recorded "The Things That I Used to Do" (1953), which featured
Electric blues
the Great Migration hit during the 1940s, bringing artists such as John Lee Hooker to Detroit to work in the factories of the Arsenal of Democracy. These artists brought with them a style of blues music rooted in the Mississippi Delta region. Though not strictly a Delta blues musician, Hooker was born in the epicenter of the tradition, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and migrated to Detroit in 1943. He scored an early hit with his first single Boogie Chillen, and began a long career that made him the most prominent and successful of the Detroit blues players of the post-war period,
Music of Detroit
Electric blues Electric blues refers to any type of blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments. The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T-Bone Walker in the late 1930s and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters in the 1940s. Their styles developed into West Coast blues, Detroit blues, and post-World War II Chicago blues, which differed from earlier, predominantly acoustic-style blues. By the early 1950s, Little Walter was a featured soloist on blues harmonica or blues harp using a small hand-held microphone fed into a guitar amplifier.
Electric blues
Palace of Auburn Hills. The city's theatre venue circuit is the United States' second largest and hosts Broadway performances. The city of Detroit has a rich musical heritage and has contributed to a number of different genres over the decades leading into the new millennium. Important music events in the city include: the Detroit International Jazz Festival, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, the Motor City Music Conference (MC2), the Urban Organic Music Conference, the Concert of Colors, and the hip-hop Summer Jamz festival. In the 1940s, Detroit blues artist John Lee Hooker became a long-term resident in the city's southwest
Detroit
John Lee Hooker Jr. John Lee Hooker Jr. (born 1952) is an American blues musician. He is the son of influential blues singer John Lee Hooker (1912–2001). The younger Hooker's musical style is markedly modernized, featuring contemporary arrangements. Born in Detroit, Hooker was performing live on local radio stations by the time he was 8 years old, and toured with his father as a teenager. He struggled with drugs and alcohol for several years before reviving his career with his debut solo album, "Blues with a Vengeance", in 2004. The album was nominated for a Grammy. A follow-up album, "Cold
John Lee Hooker Jr.
La Palabra continued playing with Lalo y La New Yorkina for two more years until 1968, when his mother decided to move the family to Detroit. He witnessed the cultural upheaval taking place in American society and in music -- hippie psychedelia, New York salsa, anti-Vietnam War anthems, Berry Gordy's Motown artists, the closely knit Detroit jazz community, Detroit-born Chicago blues singers (John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson) even the occasional Latin artist (Joe Cuba) on "American Bandstand". As a student of Cooley High School in Detroit, La Palabra became involved with as many aspects of the music department as
La Palabra (musician)
Among other works in the church are a polychrome wooden crucifix putatively donated by Pope Pius V in 1571 and attributed to Giovanni Battista Casignola. There is also an altarpiece by Orazio Gentileschi. There are three canvases depicting the "Madonna and Child, St Peter, St Roch, St Antony of Padua, and John the Baptist" (1579) by Simone de Magistris; a "Carlo Borromeo" (1623) attributed to Alessandro Turchi; and an altarpiece S. Ciannavei di Ascoli Piceno (active 18th–19th centuries). The musical organ (1783) was made by the Venetian Gaetano Callido. It was originally made for the Church of the Magdalene ("Chiesa
Ripatransone Cathedral
Gregorio Paltrinieri Gregorio Paltrinieri (born 5 September 1994) is an Italian competitive swimmer. He is the Olympic and world long course and short course champion and three-times European long course champion in the 1500 m freestyle event at the 2012, 2014 and 2016 European Aquatics Championships, and two-times European long course champion in the 800 m freestyle event. Paltrinieri is the current 1500 m freestyle (short course) world record holder. He also holds the long course European records in the 800 m and 1500 m freestyle events with times of 7:40.81 and 14:34.04. Paltrinieri started swimming at a very young
Gregorio Paltrinieri
"race [and] tradition" from their own. Although the Court found no inherent Tribal criminal jurisdiction, it acknowledged the "prevalence of non-Indian crime on today's reservations which the tribes forcefully argue requires the ability to try non-Indians" and invited "Congress to weigh in" on "whether Indian tribes should finally be authorized to try non-Indians." Justice Thurgood Marshall dissented. In his view, the right to punish all individuals who commit crimes against tribal law within the reservation was a necessary aspect of the tribe's sovereignty. His dissent read, in full: I agree with the court below that the "power to preserve order
Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
was first the business of sheep selling. Gulf believed the best stock of quality from them and there they gained much popularity and earned enough to startup a big company. The Alghanim family was among the original families to populate what would become Kuwait and has a long history as commercial merchants in the region. In 1932, Yusuf Ahmed Alghanim returned to Kuwait from his studies abroad and took over his father's business which he built into a successful company. By the end of the 1930s, he had established the reputation of Alghanim throughout the Middle East and was employing
Alghanim Industries
at Brisol Motor Speedway when he finished seventh during the Food City 500. He picked up another Top 10 at Phoenix International Raceway during the Checker Auto Parts 500. Thesetwo top-10 finishes pushed Kvapil to finish 33rd in the point standings during his first season in the series. When the season ended, the Penske Racing No. 77 team temporarily disbanded when Kodak pulled out of the sponsorship deal. After his departure from Penske, Kvapil signed with PPI Motorsports for the 2006 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. He drove the No. 32 Tide-sponsored Chevrolet for the 2006 season. He had his best
Travis Kvapil
Blues", and "Saint Louis Blues". That year the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, a white New Orleans jazz ensemble, had recorded the first jazz record, introducing the style to a wide segment of the American public. Handy had little fondness for jazz, but bands dove into his repertoire with enthusiasm, making many of them jazz standards. Handy encouraged performers such as Al Bernard, "a young white man" with a "soft Southern accent" who "could sing all my Blues". He sent Bernard to Thomas Edison to be recorded, which resulted in "an impressive series of successes for the young artist, successes in
W. C. Handy
Fame in 1999. General Johnson continued to perform with Woods and Knox as the "Chairmen of the Board" until his death from lung cancer in 2010. In 2012, Chairmen of the Board released a single, "You", which was written and produced by Knox. In 2013, former member Harrison Kennedy was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the "Acoustic Artist" category. Danny Woods (born Daniel Woods, Jr. on March 27, 1942 in Atlanta, Georgia) died on January 12, 2018, at the age of 75. Chairmen of the Board Chairmen of the Board is an American-Canadian, Detroit, Michigan-based soul music group,
Chairmen of the Board
and as a B-side on the single for their song "Jesus Christ Pose". The song appears in 'the video game "" and in the film "Joy". Stray Cat Blues "Stray Cat Blues" is the eighth song on the Rolling Stones' album "Beggars Banquet". It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and produced by Jimmy Miller. Miller's production of the song is very representative of his style, featuring a very prominent hi hat beat, droning piano performed by Nicky Hopkins, a mellotron performed by Brian Jones, all electric guitars (including slide) performed by Richards and vocals from Jagger kept
Stray Cat Blues
New Orleans rhythm and blues New Orleans Rhythm and Blues is a style of R&B that originated in New Orleans, Louisiana and was most popular between the years of 1948-1955, serving as a precursor to Rock & Roll and strongly influencing Ska. Instrumentation typically included drums, bass, piano, horns, electric guitar, and vocals. It is characterized by syncopated "second line" rhythms, a strong backbeat, and soulful vocals. Artists like Roy Brown, Dave Bartholomew, and Fats Domino are representative of the New Orleans R&B sound. The "New Orleans Sound" can be characterized by predominant piano, "singing" horns," and call-and-response elements. Clear
New Orleans rhythm and blues
other departures from the usual Delta style: "Malted Milk" and "Drunken Hearted Man". Both copy the arrangement of Lonnie Johnson's "Life Saver Blues". The two takes of "Me and the Devil Blues" show the influence of Peetie Wheatstraw, calling into question the interpretation of this piece as "the spontaneous heart-cry of a demon-driven folk artist". In 1990, Yazoo Records released "The Roots of Robert Johnson", a compilation CD of Delta blues recordings (including several of those cited here) which pre-date Johnson and illustrate how his blues output was influenced. Johnson has had enormous impact on music and musicians, but outside
Robert Johnson
John Lee Hooker
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