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"Good Feeling" (also known as "Feelin 'Good") is a song written by the English musicians Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse for the musical The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd. The original version was sung for the first time in 1964 by Cy Grant in the UK and Gilbert Price on Broadway, in the United States in 1965.
The American singer Nina Simone re-recorded the song in 1965 for the album I Put a Spell on You.
The Blues was one of the main sources of all American musical genres: jazz, soul, disco, rock and roll, a lot of the pop music, the current urban folk the 60s and even, significantly, the country music all its derivatives
The stage name (in Portuguese, águas lamacentas) he won due to the custom of a child playing in a river. His first instrument was the harmonica, which he learned to play at age 13, played on street corners for food and exchanged with a friend.
With his deep voice, rich, charismatic personality and the support of excellent musicians, Waters quickly became the most famous figure of the Chicago Blues. Even B. B. King would refer to it later as the "Chicago Chief." His bands were a "who's who" of musicians from Chicago Blues: Little Walter, Big Walter Horton, James Cotton, Junior Wells, Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, Pinetop Perkins, Buddy Guy, and many others.
Blues is a genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century. The genre developed from roots in African-American work songs and European-American folk music.
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 - 21 of June 2001) was an influential singer and guitarist of American blues, born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. It was considered the 35th best guitarist of all time by US magazine Rolling Stone.
Hooker recorded over 500 songs and about 100 albums, died of natural causes in his sleep on June 21, 2001 at his home in Los Altos, California. He was married and divorced four times, had eight children and owned a nightclub in San Francisco called "Boom Boom Room", a name inspired by one of his successes.
The first publication of blues sheet music was in 1908: Antonio Maggio's "I Got the Blues" is the first published song to use the word blues.
This music is poorly documented, partly because of racial discrimination in U.S. society, including academic circles, and partly because of the low rate of literacy among rural African Americans at the time.
In the 1920s, the blues became a major element of African American and American popular music, reaching white audiences by Handy's arrangements and the classic female blues performers. The blues evolved from informal performances in bars to entertainment in theaters.
URBAN BLUES
City or urban blues styles were more codified and elaborate, as a performer was no longer within their local, immediate community, and had to adapt to a larger, more varied audience's aesthetic.