I've been thinking about the Blues and how it all began. Like a lot of music, the Blues was pretty much weird and crazy and unlike anything people had heard before! Blues music has a few technical quirks - chords with flattened thirds, fifths or sevenths which were very different!
The influence of slavery is seen too in the lyrics and structure of the Blues songs. The songs have their roots in slave call and response. The subject matter was almost always sad or about work in the beginning, however that has changed.
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