Check out any of the following NetRadio channels. Chicago Blues Blues Rockin' Blues NetRadio has more than 100 Choice Channels of music in 17 major genres. Visit our complete list of music channels to go directly to the music you want to hear. The blues is, as well, in the style of call and response. It's an inherently improvisational style, one very closely related to jazz.
Blues is a genre that from the first had influential and popular women artists.
The depression and the two world wars caused massive urban, northward migration among Southern blacks. Blues lyrics, therefore, also became urban, and blues ensembles developed in the city clubs where the music was being played. What had been essentially an artist's solo endeavor expanded with the addition of the piano, the harmonica, and the rhythm section. And since these musicians were now playing in crowded clubs, amplification was needed-a change that turned out to be the format's last significant innovation. The 1940s saw a flourishing of the blues as its white audience grew.