To Die Blues . Popular music has been walking right in on the blues ever since. The Blues has a strong tradition and there are Blues musicians playing today, whose style is not much different from the earliest performers.
Some people consider that Blues is the root of all modern forms of music, including Jazz.
The earliest performers like Son House, Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson are still deeply revered and as influential today as ever. Those early Blues men played in Saturday night juke joints, providing entertainment for farmers and sharecroppers in the rural black communities and usually consisted of one man with an acoustic guitar or harmonica. Later, when black workers migrated to the big cities, The Blues moved with them, evolving into a brasher sound, with rhythm and swing provided by backing musicians. When those bands plugged in, the electric blues guitarist was born and the template for the future was set.