Where does Blues Music come from?
Blues came out of the cotton fields of the antebellum plantations. The African-American slaves would pass the time in field chants. Sometimes these chants were also used to pass along information in a type of code that their overseers could not understand. One person would call or sing out a line and the others would sing or call it back. Then both would would call out a third different line that would serve to complete the verse. As far as can be told, this was the earliest used of the call and response style know as AAB. The first caller would call out a line(A). The line would be repeated or the “response” and and the all would conclude with the last line (B). The AAB sturcture is the basis of much of the early 23-bqr5 blues.
