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2019/08/22 12:45
The 1940’s: Chicago Blues, Rhythm and Blues
The invention of the electric guitar led to the blues becoming more accomplished music.
From the 1930s to the 40s, when some jazz bands
were transforming into greater organized big bands which usually consisted of
12 to 25 musicians, they required guitars that could make a louder sound in
order to restore the balance with their brass section.
Therefore, an electric guitar, that used pickups to convert the vibration of its steel strings into an electric sound which could be louder with an amplifier, has developed from 1932.
After that, music recordings using the electric guitar were made by African-American musicians.
Among early electric blues guitar musicians, ‘T-Bone’ Walker became the one of the most important pioneers.
He was born in Linden, Texas, in 1910.
As he learned guitar playing from the stringbands of Dallas, his play style was influenced by the Texas Blues.
When he was a teenager, he would guide his family friend Blind Lemon Jefferson around towns.
After that, he moved to the Pacific Coast and worked for more than 20 years. His creative guitar solo later influenced B.B. King.
In addition, blues bands using the electric guitar had appeared as well as jazz bands, and they led to the development of Chicago blues and modern blues.
Since then, “Broad Caster” which Fender released in 1946, and “Les Paul”, which jazz guitarist Les Paul designed and Gibson released in 1951, became standard types of electric guitar, and they were used in other popular music.
