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Blues ballad, the Glossary

The term blues ballad is used to refer to a specific form of popular music which fused Anglo-American and Afro-American styles from the late 19th century onward.^[1]

22 relations: African Americans, Alive and Kickin' (album), B. B. King, Ballad, Blues, Blues on the Bayou, Casey Jones, Chicago Tribune, Country music, Cry Baby (Garnet Mimms song), Crystal Gayle, Dakota Staton, Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue, Eight-bar blues, Fats Domino, Janis Joplin, John Hardy (song), John Henry (folklore), Stagger Lee, Thirty-two-bar form, Tin Pan Alley, Twelve-bar blues.
Blues music genres

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Alive and Kickin' (album)

Alive and Kickin is an album by the American musician Fats Domino, released in 2006.

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B. B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Blues ballad and ballad are ballads.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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Blues on the Bayou

Blues on the Bayou is the thirty sixth studio album by B.B. King, released in 1998.

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Casey Jones

John Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train in Vaughan, Mississippi.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Country music

Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.

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Cry Baby (Garnet Mimms song)

"Cry Baby" is a song originally recorded by Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters, in 1963, and later recorded by rock singer Janis Joplin in 1970.

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Crystal Gayle

Brenda Gail Webb, known professionally as Crystal Gayle (b. January 9, 1951) is an American country music singer widely known for her 1977 hit "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue".

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Dakota Staton

Dakota Staton (June 3, 1930 – April 10, 2007) was an American jazz vocalist who found international acclaim with the 1957 No.

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Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

"Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" is a song written by Richard Leigh, and recorded by American country music singer Crystal Gayle.

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Eight-bar blues

In music, an eight-bar blues is a common blues chord progression.

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Fats Domino

Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), known as Fats Domino, was an American singer-songwriter and pianist.

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Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter.

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John Hardy (song)

"John Hardy" or "Old John Hardy" is a traditional American folk song based on the life of a railroad worker living in McDowell County, West Virginia in the Spring of 1893.

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John Henry (folklore)

John Henry is an American folk hero.

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Stagger Lee

"Stagger Lee", also known as "Stagolee" and other variants, is a popular American folk song about the murder of Billy Lyons by "Stag" Lee Shelton, in St. Louis, Missouri, at Christmas 1895.

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The 32-bar form, also known as the AABA song form, American popular song form and the ballad form, is a song structure commonly found in Tin Pan Alley songs and other American popular music, especially in the first half of the 20th century.

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Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley was a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Twelve-bar blues

The twelve-bar blues (or blues changes) is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music. Blues ballad and twelve-bar blues are blues music genres.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_ballad