Blue Ant Media - Cities in Blue (2013) Part 8 Texas

Cities in Blue takes you on an essential American music tour, with a focus on one of the country’s most iconic styles The Blues. You’ll make a stop at every key city in Blues’ history—from New Orleans, Mississippi, Memphis, and Austin, to Piedmont, Kansas, Chicago, and New York. Distinguish between the raw, honest “call and response” blues born in the Deep South the polished sound performed to audiences in the city—it’s a journey through a much celebrated and storied genre.

Part 8 Texas

It is argues that Blues sprang out of the cotton fields, oil fields and lumber camps of Texas around the same time as it developed in the Mississippi Delta, forming an independently guitar-heavy swing style of Blues that we now call the Texas sound.

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