The origin of the blues dates back to XIX centurywhen the work songs who sang the African American slaves They crystallized into a new style that, in the 20th century, would give rise to many of the genres we know today.

The genre reached maximum popularity in the first decades of the 20th centuryespecially after 1920, when many of the most famous blues songs were recorded.

In almost all of these issues, those known as Big Momsblues singers whose voices were forever linked to those early recordings of the genre, some of which became standards and were covered by rockers such as Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones.

At the end of the sixties, he managed to relaunch his career through several recordings that he released with Mercury Records. In the 70s, his drinking problems seriously affected his state of health. Finally, he died in 1984, at age 57.

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