Known as 'the three kings', B. B., Albert & Freddie King dominated the blues genre.
Located in New Orleans, the 'House of The Rising sun' was said to be named after Marianne LeSoleil Levant. Her surname translates to 'the rising sun' in french.
Three chord blues can be represented by roman numerals, for example, chord I is A7, chord IV is D7, and chord V is E7
Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton's biggest hero, wrote 'crossroad blues', which Cream later recorded as 'Crossroads'
Clapton himself was a part of John Mayall's bluesbreakers in the 1960's
Known as 'The Iceman', Albert Collins played a fender telecaster guitar with a 100 foot lead
John Lee Hooker was the artist behind hits like 'Boom Boom' and 'This is hip"
'Buddy Guy' plays a distinctive polka dot fender stratocaster
Stevie Ray Vaughan wrote several hits but his biggest number was 'Texas Flood'
In 1967 Peter Green left John Mayall's bluesbreakers to join Fleetwood Mac
Jimi Hendrix's most popular blues song talked of a 'red house over yonder'
Thibeault Walker, was often referred to as 't-bone' walker, and was an influential part to electric blues
Albert King played a Gibson 'Flying V', his signature guitar
Robert Cray was a five time grammy winning American guitarist
Huddie Ledbetter, famous for playing a 12 string guitar, was also known as 'lead belly'
Muddy Waters influenced the popular 'Chicago Blues'
santana successfully covered 'black magic woman', originally by fleetwood mac
blues music is often referred to as '12 bar blues'
artist Bo Diddley ened up having a rhythm style named after him
'The Yardbirds' featured three legendary blues guitarists, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton & Jimmy Paige
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