The lyrics of a blues song would be full of emotion and would ... bar and mostly follows a 12 bar blues chord structure. 8 and 16 bar blues can also sometimes be found. Blues verses have a three ...

A 12-bar blues progression is composed of three (typically) four-bar phrases. The first phrase is entirely tonic harmony (I). The second phrase contains two bars of subdominant (IV) and two bars of ...

All three claimed a hand in the authorship of the song, though Broonzy’s acoustic eight-bar-blues version (the original was 12-bar) became the standard-bearer. Listen to the evolution of “Key ...

The songs that influenced The Rolling Stones most have all come from the blues tradition – as the ‘Confessin’ The Blues’ compilation reveals. The famous story of how the group got their ...

Mamie Smith made history in February 1920 when she became the first African-American singer to record a blues song, That Thing Called ... concentrated on the 12-bar blues form and provided a ...