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"Blues fiddle"[1] is a generic term for bowed, stringed instruments played on the arm or shoulder that are used to play blues music. Since no blues artists played violas, the term is synonymous with violin, and blues players referred to their instruments as "fiddle" and "violin".
While unequivocally an African-American creation, with the rising popularity of the blues, violinists in the Anglo-American dance fiddling traditions and white country fiddlers, adopted stylistic elements and added songs from the blues to their repertoire.
Blues violin features most prominently in rural blues, string-band, jug band and jazz. It won this attention because, "The violin is by nature a lead instrument that can replicate vocal expressions through the use of vibrato and sliding notes."[2]
"Bluesfiddle" is a generic term for bowed, stringed instruments played on the arm or shoulder that are used to play blues music. Since no blues artists...
"Gatemouth" Brown Bluesfiddle uses the pentatonic blues scale to create riffs for breaks and over guitar chords typically in the standard blues progression...
A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical...
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is an African-American genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities...
subgenres. Blues subgenres include country blues, Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues and West Coast blues. World...
displacement from Nova Scotia, whence they brought a rich musical tradition. Bluesfiddle has been directly influential in the development of Cajun fiddling, as...
vocals Sharon Shannon – accordion Mary Shannon – banjo Liz Kane – fiddle Yvonne Kane – fiddle Jim Murray – gut string guitar Bill Wright – bouzouki David Steele...
and other styles. For instance, Texas Old Time fiddle, is distinct from Texas swing fiddle, Texas blues and Texas rock. It is Old Time, like its relatives...
1896 - March 21, 1931) from Terrell, Texas was an American country bluesfiddle player. He was one of the founders of the musical genre later defined...
originally wrote the basic melody an octave lower, in a tune called "Lonesome FiddleBlues" released on Clements' self-titled 1975 album on which Charlie Daniels...
"Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues" is a song written and recorded by American music group Charlie Daniels Band. It was released in August 1988 as the...
Beaucoups of Blues is the second studio album by the English rock musician and former Beatle Ringo Starr. It was released in September 1970, five months...
nearby areas or the Deep South. Piedmont blues styles reflects this, meshing traces of gospel, fiddle tunes, blues, country, and ragtime into its rolling...
Sweden (called a Devil's fiddle or Devil's stick) and in other countries, for example at Oktoberfests. They have been played in blues, soul, bluegrass and...
The Cats and the Fiddle was an African American singing group formed in 1937 in Chicago and active until 1951, releasing more than 30 gramophone sides...
learned to play the fiddle and the mandolin early. Wills not only learned traditional music from his family, but he also learned some blues songs directly...
American rock band from Spartanburg, South Carolina. Noted for incorporating blues, country and jazz into an eclectic sound, the Marshall Tucker Band helped...
even fully orchestrated bands, vocals, and other instruments followed the fiddle's lead, though like popular horn led bands that arranged and scored their...
harmonica Charlie Hart: fiddle, accordion Ben Waters : piano Chris Jagger: guitar, harmonica, washboard Charlie Hart: fiddle, accordion, piano, bass,...
bones, jug, guitar, and four-string banjo, Rhiannon Giddens on banjo and fiddle and Súle Greg Wilson on bodhrán, brushes, washboard, bones, tambourine,...
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