Blues Pinoy

I'm a proud owner of an original Blueskrieg album copy. This is a compilation CD featuring five Philippine blues bands playing their originally composed blues-influenced/blues-based songs, Original Pilipino Blues Music. It contains fifteen (15) original songs that arguably cover the wide gamut of blues music varieties, from standard 12-bar blues, to soul/rnb tinged blues, to classic rock, southern rock, country rock style blues to modern heavy blues based rock with mostly Filipino and Tagalog lyrics and some English lyrics that still evoke Pinoy sentiment. Track listing: 1. Tumblin’ Down The Devil’s Game by PLUG 2. Byahero by PLUG 3. Blooze by PLUG 4. Zalman Knew by Snakecharmer 5. My Slow Draggin’ Week by Snakecharmer 6. Suklob by Snakecharmer 7. Bakit Nagkaganito by Firebottle 8. Di Na Lang Sana by Firebottle 9. Kalbaryo by Firebottle 10. Confronting The Evil by Dahon 11. Monster Within Me by Dahon 12. Lipad Pilip Lipad by Dahon 13. Sa Gabi Sa Umaga by Kulukati 14. Selda Katorse ...

- Willie Dixon The contribution of Blues music to the development of many other genres of music is very significant. From the perspective of musical structure, jazz as we know it would not exist without the Blues. The twelve-bar Blues chorus, with its familiar harmonic structure and narrative form, was the single most popular template for early jazz improvisation, as compact yet profound in its way as the sonnet proved to be in the realm of poetry. In the 1950's, youthful artists like Elvis Presley and Bill Haley were wrapping the Blues in a new envelope called "Rock'n'Roll" and the players of the electric Blues guitar like B.B. King were heralding the arrival of the lead guitar, soon to be a great attraction for both musicians and audiences. Throughout the evolution of the Blues the electric guitar had always been used for solos in jazz bands but now it competed with the singer for the awareness of the listeners. After years of imitating their idols something odd...