The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #159868 Message #3789662
Posted By: Richie
10-May-16 - 05:35 PM
Thread Name: 12-bar blues on record before 1921
Subject: RE: 12-bar blues on record before 1921
Hi,
I love "All Night Long" used to sing it with "Louisville" in it when I lived there.
I thought "One Dime Blues" was an eight-bar blues like "Crow Jane Blues" which dates back to the early 1900s but it probably wasn't recorded the mid-20s if I recollect. I guess if you do eight bars twice it's sixteen :)
Some sixteen bar songs like "Careless Love" resemble blues songs and Handy called it one of the first blues.