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Frank Edwards (blues Musician)
Frank Edwards (March 20, 1909 – March 22, 2002) was an American blues guitarist, harmonicist, harmonica player and singer. He was variously billed as Mr. Frank, Black Frank and Mr. Cleanhead. Biography and career Edwards was born in Washington, Georgia, United States. He recorded for four record labels in his career; Okeh Records in 1940, Regal Records (1949), Regal Records in 1949, and Trix Records in the mid-1970s. Some more recent sessions were done for the Music Maker (label), Music Maker Relief Foundation. His most noted sound recording and reproduction, recordings were "Three Women Blues" and "Terraplane Blues". Frank Edwards died of a myocardial infarction, heart attack in Greenville, South Carolina, while being driven back to his Atlanta, Georgia home, after completing his final recordings at the age of 93. References External links Mrfrankedwards.comFrank Edwards obituary 1909 births 2002 deaths People from Washington, Georgia Country blues musicians Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern (the blues scale and specific chord progressions) of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
