THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES (PART 1) MA RAINEY & THE ONES WHO CAME FIRST
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Release Date: 05/11/2025
THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES (PART 1) MA RAINEY & THE ONES WHO CAME FIRST
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
First there was field holler, then came the slow rolling responses,- the "the breeze through the trees". Echoes of hardship, music of the soul. Then came the guitar, and the strings, and the slides, and the bottleneck- until that guitar became a second voice. That second voice, with its groans, its tears, its joy of overcoming, became the Blues. -JH 2025 Recently I saw that Ma Rainey's early songs had just become public domain, along with a number of other talents who really combined to give us one of America's truest music art forms- the Blues. I wanted to know how the...
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THE SEARCH FOR AMY LYNN BRADLEY: DISAPPEARED FROM FAMILY CRUISE
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1001 HEROES CONFIDENTIAL APRIL 20, 2025: THE SEARCH FOR AMY LYNN BRADLEY Amy Lynn Bradley (born May 12, 1974) is an American woman who went missing during a Caribbean cruise on the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas in late March 1998 while en route to Curaçao. Her whereabouts remain unknown to this day. She was a 23-year-old Longwood University graduate at the time of her disappearance. After midnight on Monday March 23, 1998, Amy and her younger brother Brad headed to the ship's nightclub to go dancing. Records show that Brad decided to return to his...
info_outlineFirst there was field holler, then came the slow rolling responses,- the "the breeze through the trees". Echoes of hardship, music of the soul.
Then came the guitar, and the strings, and the slides, and the bottleneck- until that guitar became a second voice.
That second voice, with its groans, its tears, its joy of overcoming, became the Blues. -JH 2025
Recently I saw that Ma Rainey's early songs had just become public domain, along with a number of other talents who really combined to give us one of America's truest music art forms- the Blues.
I wanted to know how the blues came to be-who really "brought it", and how to tell the different between different types of blues- like Chicago, or St. Louis Blues.
So I asked one ofm our investigative journalists, Gizelle Erickson, to do some digging, find some music and story we could use- and she handed me most of this story. She would have voiced it but a bad cold got her first- so I got part one. She gets part 2.
Here is the story of the birth of the blues.