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Blues First Impressions

Blues First Impressions

Q Step 1: Focused Listening Just like in the last assignment, you'll listen to some songs on a Spotify playlist that I've linked below. As you listen to these three blues songs, write notes about your impressions of each song and notes about how the songs are different from each other. Also write some notes about how these three blues songs compare to the four jazz songs from the last assignment. Blues First Impressions Playlist on Spotify (Links to an external site.) Don't have Spotify? Look up the songs listed below on your preferred streaming music service. For this assignment, if you find the song on a different album, as long as it's by the same artist it should be fine. Format is "Song title" -- Artist -- Album "Hell Hound On My Trail" -- Robert Johnson -- The Centennial Collection "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had" -- Muddy Waters -- The Folk Singer "Pride and Joy" -- Stevie Ray Vaughan -- The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble Step 2: Initial response For your first post, answer both of these prompts: • Which genre do you prefer: jazz or blues? Writing "I don't know" or "I like both" is NOT allowed - pick one. • Use some of the notes you made on these songs to explain and defend your choice.

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"Hell Hound On My Trail" -- Robert Johnson -- The Centennial Collection – 2 mins 42 Secs "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had" -- Muddy Waters -- The Folk Singer- 2 mins 58 secs "Pride and Joy" -- Stevie Ray Vaughan -- The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble- 3 mins 41 secs I would have answered ‘both’ but that is not acceptable. It is really difficult to choose one but I shall do so. ‘Blues’ is my favourite because the focus is one person who is either playing the guitar or singing or doing both and also the lyrical richness of Blues, attracts me. The first two songs fall in the Classic Blues genre while the last song is Electric Blues genre.