Blues
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Electric Blues
Soul-Blues
Perhaps one of the most modern forms of blues, Soul-Blues fuses disparate elements of black popular music to create a wholly urban amalgam of its own. Artists who wanted to move stylistically beyond the three-chord confines of conventional blues forms found the rhythm & blues strain of the 1950s and the southern soul style of the mid-'60s far more to their creative liking. Soul-blues combines the best elements of the two and blends that with the standard blues band instrumentation -- sometimes augmented with an R&B-styled horn section. The genre also provides more traditional blues artists with a style to visit on occasion, injecting some contemporary life into their recordings.
Soul-Blues Album Highlights
![King of the Blues [Box]](https://fastly-s3.allmusic.com/release/mr0000134716/front/220/XpwknNsfap5LHEcnzZmnY9_M69_UI9rrJSVvWL2-yAg=.jpg)
![Tell Mama [Chess]](https://fastly-s3.allmusic.com/release/mr0004913076/front/220/W9JuS6QCDwIvrS2cYsl8pphUoDg0hsvx4F4sL4oO-nA=.jpg)
![The Best of Bobby "Blue" Bland [Universal]](https://fastly-s3.allmusic.com/release/mr0001083513/front/220/TAvvVPBLSMQ5nJo10FH9QIAf7E_1E-2MlBBPmPAXRBU=.jpg)
![Soul Serenade: The Best of Willie Mitchell [Capitol]](https://fastly-s3.allmusic.com/release/mr0000127497/front/220/h1gJtl6f_xtJCyh2TFZBLh_TZlp6n_cq-Emr2zx15tU=.jpg)