Purpose

The blues, and more specifically the twelve bar blues, is one of the most influential musical identities in music today. In this playlist I will document both traditional and non-traditional forms of the twelve bar blues, and will attempt to bridge the gap between the two by showing how these two forms of the blues are related.

The first portion of the playlist is spend familiarizing the listener with the twelve bar blues and blues songs in general. The playlist is structured to take the listener from the more traditional blues songs into songs that were either influenced by specific songs - in which case both songs, traditional and nontraditional, are placed close together - or the blues progression is reworked into another genre - in which case the songs are ordered from most bluesy to least bluesy.

Genres exhibited in this playlist include (in order of appearance) acoustic blues, blues rock, electric blues, hard rock, psychedelic rock, jazzy blues, big band, jazz, jazz fusion, funk, soul, country, country/blues influenced rock, punk, progressive rock, 80s rock, metal, alternative rock, pop, and rap.