Blues
What is the Blues? To the detached technical minded music geek the Blues simply means a basic I-IV-V chord progression laid over a 12-bar framework. ... In the context of the blues it’s not as much of what you say but more of how you say it. ... You don’t listen to the blues you feel it. ... What is the Blues all about? In order to understand the essence of the blues a little bit of a history lesson is in Order. ... Thus, the Blues was born. The Blues can be further divided into a few sub categories which can be thought of as different dialects of the same language. Delta Blues: The Delta Blues style comes from a region in the southern part of Mississippi, a place romantically referred to as "the land where the Blues were born.