Texas blues

Texas blues is a geographical subgenre of the blues. Played with more laid back and swing with variations of other blues styles. Texas blues began in the mid-1920s and was played mainly with filigree acoustic guitar parts, always as an addition of the singers. After World War II Texas blues changed into a more electric blues style, with jazzed up guitar solos and horn sections. In the Seventies Texas blues became more rock influenced with distorted guitars (e.g. ZZ Top) and filigree solo parts. Stevie Ray Vaughan represented Texas blues in the 1980s and 1990 as an virtuos played blues style, with a small band (drums, bass, guitar, organ), sometimes even with brass sections but always guitar dominated.

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Important Texas Blues Artists

• Lightnin´ Hopkins
• Blind Lemon Jefferson
• Freddie King
• T-Bone Walker
• Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Jimmie Vaughan
• The Fabulous Thunderbirds
• Johnny Winter
• Albert Collins
• ZZ Top

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