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The 83 pages that link to Blues, each with the reason it gives.

• Rock musicNarrower topic: Rock borrowed deeply from blues while developing into a distinct popular genre.

• Rock and rollNarrower topic: Rock and roll drew on blues but developed a faster, more youth-oriented popular sound.

• Twelve-bar bluesNarrower topic: The twelve-bar pattern became one of the genre’s best-known harmonic structures.

• Singer-songwriterNarrower topic: Blues traditions shaped later singer-songwriters’ approaches to personal voice and song form.

• Song structureNarrower topic: The twelve-bar blues provides a recurring musical framework that can shape a song’s sections.

• Thelonious MonkNarrower topic: Blues forms and inflections recur throughout Monk’s compositions, including “Blue Monk.”

• Chuck BerryNarrower topic: Berry adapted blues forms and phrasing into concise songs aimed at a broader popular audience.

• Delta bluesNarrower topic: Delta blues is a regional tradition within this broader musical genre.

• Mick JaggerNarrower topic: Jagger drew heavily on blues phrasing and vocal styles in the Rolling Stones’ early music.

• Jimi HendrixNarrower topic: Hendrix drew on blues phrasing and repertoire throughout his music.

• Jazz harmonyNarrower topic: Blues harmony contributed blue notes and recurring progressions to jazz.

• Guitar soloNarrower topic: Blues conventions strongly shaped the bends, phrasing, and vocabulary of electric-guitar solos.

• Hard rockNarrower topic: Blues phrasing and song structures provide much of hard rock’s musical vocabulary.

• Bessie SmithNarrower topic: Smith’s recordings helped establish blues as a major recorded genre and carried its vocal language into jazz.

• Lead BellyNarrower topic: Lead Belly drew on blues phrasing while moving across a broad song repertoire.

• Guitar riffNarrower topic: Blues phrasing and repeated figures supplied influential models for guitar riffs.

• The Blues BrothersNarrower topic: The act’s name and repertoire foreground this tradition.

• W. C. HandyNarrower topic: Handy helped bring this tradition to wider audiences through compositions and publication.

• Jeff BeckNarrower topic: Blues phrasing remained a foundation beneath Beck’s rock and fusion experiments.

• Thomas A. DorseyNarrower topic: Dorsey brought blues phrasing and performance energy into his gospel compositions.

• B. B. KingNarrower topic: King became one of the genre’s most widely recognized ambassadors.

• Etta JamesNarrower topic: Blues gave her performances a vocabulary for pain, desire, and resilience.

• Ma RaineyNarrower topic: Rainey helped establish the blues as a recorded and toured genre.

• Tom WaitsNarrower topic: Blues traditions supply recurring structures and vocal gestures across many of his songs.

• Charley PattonNarrower topic: Patton’s work helped establish conventions that shaped the broader blues tradition.

• Willie DixonNarrower topic: Dixon drew on blues traditions while reshaping them for Chicago bands.

• Bonnie RaittNarrower topic: Blues phrasing and repertoire form the foundation of Raitt’s musical style.

• IndigoNarrower topic: Indigo is commonly treated as a deep or violet-leaning blue.

• Dinah WashingtonNarrower topic: Washington’s blues recordings established a major strand of her career before her pop crossover.

• Louis JordanNarrower topic: Jordan’s phrasing and storytelling drew on blues while redirecting it toward dance-band audiences.

• SinnersNarrower topic: Blues performance is woven into the film's setting, characters, and ideas about cultural inheritance.

• Navy blueNarrower topic: Navy blue is a dark shade within the broader blue color category.

• Zucchero FornaciariNarrower topic: Its vocal phrasing and forms are central to Zucchero’s musical identity.