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Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live.

Blues Music
Country blues, in particular, features wide variations from the tonic but still with the blue-note feeling.

Blues Music Festival
Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes.

Origins Of The Blues
These blue notes are what turns a major scale into the blues scale.

Memphis Blues
The style was popular in vaudeville and medicine shows, and was associated with Memphis' main entertainment area, Beale Street.

Using The Blues Scales To Master Blues Guitar Playing
Mastering the guitar is like taming a large bull but once you have understood it, you can play almost anything and play sensational blues riffs and licks The great thing about creating your own blues backing tracks is that when you need to reflect back and play a solo then, it will come in handy

A Review of 50 Blues Guitar Backing Tracks by 50Blues
Here is a review of 50Blues from Guitar Player Magazine I have been looking for good blues backing tracks for the longest time Finally, I have found the ones that I know will better my guitar playing tenfold

Blues Music

The blue notes are usually said to be flattened third, flattened fifth, and flattened seventh scale degrees, although they approximate pitches found in African work songs. These blue notes are what turns a major scale into the blues scale. The same transformation of notes transforms the minor scale into the minor blues scale, as heard in songs such as "Why Don't You Do Right?".

The blues scale is used in almost all twelve-bar and eight-bar blues, but it is also used in blues ballads and in conventional popular songs with a "blue" feeling, such as Harold Arlen's "Stormy Weather".

In its earliest manifestations, the flattened third, or mediant, and flattened seventh, or subtonic, were the main blue notes.

Kansas City Blues
Kansas City blues is a genre of blues music. It has spawned the Kansas Blues & Jazz festival and the Kansas Blues Society. Kansas City has many blues and jazz fans. The careers of Count Basie and Charlie Parker began in Kansas City. Local Clubs in Kansas City feature many noteworthy Kansas City Bands. On the corner of 39th and Jackson in Kansas City, Missouri, lies an old night club balled The Blues Alley. This club serves as one of the homes and starts of various jazz legends.
Chicago Blues Festival
The Chicago Blues Festival is an annual event that features four days of performances by top-tier blues musicians, both old favorites and the up-and-coming. It is hosted by the City of Chicago Mayor's Office of Special Events, and always occurs in early June. The event has always taken place in Grant Park, adjacent to the Lake Michigan waterfront east of the Loop in Chicago. Chicago has a storied history with blues that goes back generations stemming from the Great Migration from the South and particularly the Mississippi Delta region in pursuit of advancement and better career possibilities for musicians. Created by Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Lois Weisberg, the festival began in 1984, a year after the death of McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, who is generally considered "the father of Chicago blues". Each year the organizers choose a theme, generally to honor a recently departed Blues musician.Obviously, Chicago blues acts are common. Also, in keeping with the Blues' influence on other musical genres, there are some Soul, Jazz blues and Blues-rock acts. Since those early beginnings the festival has risen to a status that the City of Chicago bills as the world's largest free concert of its kind. The Blues Festival is the largest of the city's music festivals.
Long Beach Blues Festival
The Long Beach Blues Festival, in Long Beach, California, is one of the largest and 2nd oldest Blues festivals on the West Coast (1st being the San Francisco Blues Festival). It is held on Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend. For many years it was held on the athletic field on the California State University, Long Beach campus. The 2008 festival, the 29th annual, will be held at Rainbow Lagoon in downtown Long Beach.
The festival is organized and used as a fund raiser by KKJZ, a publicly-supported radio station on the CSULB campus broadcasting blues and jazz in Southern California.


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