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EZ BLUES BASICS QUIZ
« Thread Started on Mar 16, 2005, 5:22am »

1 What was Muddy Waters real name?

2 In what year was the first blues record made?

3 What famous Memphis musician wrote the first published blues song?

4 Where did the blues originate?

5 According to legend, Robert Johnson sold something to the Devil to become a great bluesman. What did he supposedly sell?

6 Who was known as The Empress Of The Blues?

7 What was T-Bone Walker's real name?

8 What instrument is sometimes called "the blues saxophone"?

9 What record company is famous for its Chicago Blues?

10 Who wrote Crossroads Blues?

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Re: EZ BLUES BASICS QUIZ
« Reply #1 on Mar 16, 2005, 12:41pm »

1 What was Muddy Waters real name?
McKinley Morganfield

2 In what year was the first blues record made?

3 What famous Memphis musician wrote the first published blues song?

4 Where did the blues originate?

5 According to legend, Robert Johnson sold something to the Devil to become a great bluesman. What did he supposedly sell?
His Soul

6 Who was known as The Empress Of The Blues?

Bessie Smith

7 What was T-Bone Walker's real name?

Aaron Thibeaux Walker

8 What instrument is sometimes called "the blues saxophone"?

Harmonica

9 What record company is famous for its Chicago Blues?

Delmark amoung others Chess was.

10 Who wrote Crossroads Blues?

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Re: EZ BLUES BASICS QUIZ
« Reply #2 on Mar 16, 2005, 4:39pm »

GREAT JOB PORKPIE!!

Here are the remaining unanswered...

2 In what year was the first blues record made?

3 What famous Memphis musician wrote the first published blues song?

4 Where did the blues originate?

10 Who wrote Crossroads Blues?

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Re: EZ BLUES BASICS QUIZ
« Reply #3 on Mar 16, 2005, 8:45pm »

2 In what year was the first blues record made? 1903?
3 What famous Memphis musician wrote the first published blues song? W.C. handy i think

4 Where did the blues originate? The delta or at least in southern black culture...slaves and then free people and so forth

10 Who wrote Crossroads Blues? Robert johnson isn't it?

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