2 THE GAMBLERS BLUES MUSIC 2016
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Date: 2016-09-23

The Gamblers 2016
During the 1980s and to this day blues continued to evolve through the work of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder, Albert Collins, Keb 'Mo', Alvin Youngblood, Corey Harris, Jessie Mae Hemphill, RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Kim Wilson, James Harman and her two guitarists Hollywood Fats mann and David "kid" Ramos, Ali Farka Touré and many others. Blues style "Texas Blues-rock" was created in the 1980s, and uses the guitar solo and accompaniment simultaneously. Texas style was greatly influenced by blues-rock of England (as John Mayall). The important artists of the Texas style blues were Stevie Ray Vaughan who revolutionized the style in the 1980s, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and ZZ Top. At the same time, John Lee Hooker has regained its popularity thanks to his collaborations with Carlos Santana (Cd The Healer), Miles Davis, Robert Cray and Bonnie Raitt. Eric Clapton (formerly the Bluesbreakers and Cream group) has become popular again in the 1990s with his album Unplugged for MTV, playing some traditional songs, among other successes, on an acoustic guitar.

Blues, like all forms of popular music, is the result of diverse and varied influences that have accumulated over time. Wanting to date its origin would be pretentious and especially the blues vain word appears in any text before the beginning of the twenties; at most, can we establish some historical markers that have been important in the birth and evolution.
In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln gives freedom to blacks in the Southern States. While some emigrated to Chicago or New York, the majority remained in the South. At the time were created the coon song, sort of mixture of folk songs, dances and spirituals that whites made up to make fun of blacks. Black resumed this revenue to occur in roadshows by including gradually ragtime was being born (ragtime was first played the banjo before becoming a typical piano