tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089926376300913992.post7654909697050070534..comments2024-03-14T12:56:21.674-07:00Comments on Peter Spitzer Music Blog: "St. Louis Blues" and Other Early Published BluesPeter Spitzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09732697738104648204noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089926376300913992.post-52464025430472186042016-04-13T12:36:58.292-07:002016-04-13T12:36:58.292-07:00Examples of composers who picked up that 16-bar I-...Examples of composers who picked up that 16-bar I-I-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-V-V-I-I folk blues form and used it in published blues would be Euday Bowman (e.g. "Fort Worth Blues" 1915) and Paul Durst ("The Lone Star Blues" 1916).Joseph Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14831150593084161423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089926376300913992.post-34889153229173449962016-04-09T10:08:22.000-07:002016-04-09T10:08:22.000-07:00Hi Peter...
Maggio said in an interview that he g...Hi Peter...<br /><br />Maggio said in an interview that he got the blues strain in "I Got The Blues" from a tune of the same title he heard a black guitarist play in Louisiana in 1907.<br /><br />"'St. Louis Blues' was not the first published 12-bar blues; it was predated by 'I Got the Blues' (1908), 'Dallas Blues' (1912), 'Baby Seals Blues' (1912), and 'Memphis Blues' (1912)." And others such as “The Blues (But I'm Too Blamed Mean to Cry)” (1912) and "The Jogo Blues" (1913).<br /><br />Sixteen-bar blues with chord progressions very similar to I-I-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-V-V-I-I were very popular among black folk musicians and apparently were seen by them as of the 1910s as no less authentically blues than 12-bar blues. Typical examples of these 16-bar blues, which more often had AAAB lyrics than anything else, would be "Wartime Blues" by Blind Lemon Jefferson, "K.C. Railroad Blues" by Andrew and Jim Baxter, "Midnight Blues" by William Moore, "Going To Leave You Blues" by Big Boy Cleveland, "Sadie Lee Blues" by Peg Leg Howell, and "C. C. & O. Blues" by Simmie Dooley and Pink Anderson.Joseph Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14831150593084161423noreply@blogger.com