The Blues

If you’re looking for real soul and emotion in music, you must listen to the Blues. It originated in the cotton plantations of America during the early 18th and 19th centuries. To make it easier to identify the genre, you must pay attention to the lyrics. Blues songs talk about suffering, pain and the inability to break free from chains of dissatisfaction. The main reason behind this is that this genre of music was used by African-American people to highlight their pain. Blues music has grown over the years, and has transformed tremendously from the days of Nat King Cole and Elmore James, to the present days of John Mayer and Eric Clapton. A person must acquire a taste for this kind of music in order to like it.