Instructions: In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.
Input: No specific year can be cited as the origin of the blues , largely because the style evolved over a long period and existed in approaching its modern form before the term " blues " was introduced and before the style was thoroughly documented .
Output:
No year can be cited as the origin , because the style evolved over a long period .