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Blues Blast Magazine
''Blues Blast Magazine'' is a weekly online magazine dedicated to the Blues genre. The magazine provides artist interviews, album reviews, and news. It is the presenter of the annual Blues Blast Music Awards. In 2025, ''Blues Blast Magazine'' was honored by The Blues Foundation with a Keeping the Blues Alive Award for its contributions to the genre. History In 2007, publisher and editor Bob Kieser launched ''Illinois Blues Blast''. The publication began with an email list of approximately 1,000 subscribers. The initial focus was on album reviews and performance schedules for artists in Illinois and the surrounding Midwest. In 2008, the publication was rebranded as ''Blues Blast Magazine''. The shift coincided with the establishment of the annual Blues Blast Music Awards. In 2013, the publication was inducted into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame. The magazine is a digital publication distributed weekly. Its editorial content focuses on the contemporary Blues scene and its hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale, and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. Blues music is characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
