Sound Familiar...So Much of Our Music Comes from the Old Blues

I just remembered finding a cassette of Ray Charles greatest hits when I was 7. I thought it was my dad's (died when I was 6). I was recently creating a post about a new germanium OCD pedal when I remembered...

My bills are all due and my baby needs shoes and I'm busted.
- Ray Charles
 
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Yes, but, really all music is an outgrowth and amalgam of what came before it. The distillation of everything its maker heard and ripped something off from. Including Blues, which as a definable style of music was also the culmination of what came before it. So, to me, its not as though Blues simply sprang forth and then went on to influence rock, and to really understand the common thread you’d have to go much farther back then just the Blues influenced the music we grew up on.
 
gball said:
Yes, but, really all music is an outgrowth and amalgam of what came before it. The distillation of everything its maker heard and ripped something off from. Including Blues, which as a definable style of music was also the culmination of what came before it. So, to me, its not as though Blues simply sprang forth and then went on to influence rock, and to really understand the common thread you’d have to go much farther back then just the Blues influenced the music we grew up on.
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This is definitely correct, but blues music was among the first styles of music that were recorded and distributed at least semi-widely. Records meant that a lot more people could hear it and be inspired by it. But of course, blues music did not magically spring into existence by itself.
 
Gahr said:
This is definitely correct, but blues music was among the first styles of music that were recorded and distributed at least semi-widely. Records meant that a lot more people could hear it and be inspired by it. But of course, blues music did not magically spring into existence by itself.
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This is what I was trying to get across. I'm sure even cavemen found some way to make sounds they enjoyed, but the music I love and listen to the most
has it's roots in the old Blues Music. And that music came from the call and response of the workers in the fields which I assume came from their African roots.
 
Sp8ctre said:
I am a long time student of original Blues Music! It amazes me how many songs from the Rock era I grew up in are remakes. I just love the old originals and I really dig
finding and listening to as much as I can. It's become a lot easier with modern conveniences such as the WWW!
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I have a question for ya (I am to lazy to google it)
Who is the original artist that wrote stroll along. ?
 
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