The Blues: The Best Music From Memphis Ever

The music from Memphis during the early part of the 20th century was unlike anything the country had ever heard before. It was called The Blues, and the music from Memphis soon took the entire country by storm without many people knowing it. The people who created the music from Memphis like W.C. Handy, Willie Nix, Furry Lewis, Frank Stokes, Robert Wilkins, Big Mama Thornton, Bobby Sowell, Rosco Gordon, Howlin Wolf, Memphis Minnie, Junior Parker, Ida Cox and Sleepy John Estes all gained a significant amount of fame because of their talents. It should be clear by now that my blues are built around or suggested by, rather than constructed of, the snatches, phrases, cries and idioms such as I have illustrated, wrote W.C. Handy in his autobiography. The genre got so famous, that whenever somebody would mention music from Memphis,... [read full story]