THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES (PART 1) MA RAINEY & THE ONES WHO CAME FIRST
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THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES (PART 1) MA RAINEY & THE ONES WHO CAME FIRST
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First there was field holler, then came the slow rolling responses,- the "the breeze through the trees". Echoes of hardship, music of the soul.
Then came the guitar, and the strings, and the slides, and the bottleneck- until that guitar became a second voice.
That second voice, with its groans, its tears, its joy of overcoming, became the Blues. -JH 2025
Recently I saw that Ma Rainey's early songs had just become public domain, along with a number of other talents who really combined to give us one of America's truest music art forms- the Blues.
I wanted to know how the blues came to be-who really "brought it", and how to tell the different between different types of blues- like Chicago, or St. Louis Blues.
So I asked one ofm our investigative journalists, Gizelle Erickson, to do some digging, find some music and story we could use- and she handed me most of this story. She would have voiced it but a bad cold got her first- so I got part one. She gets part 2.
Here is the story of the birth of the blues.