Acoustic Guitar

Many years ago, for the first time ever live to an audience, Bob Dylan took his steps on the stage and began to play his electric guitar. He was completely, taken with his play and ignored the reaction of the audience to the obnoxious rock music. He continued plugging in and playing. His act was such a revolution of the music's world. That event occupied the front pages of all the newspapers that time. Based on the few differences between it and the blues music, the elder blues musicians listening to him caused the leaving of acoustic blues guitar in the dust.

Around 1930s, a movement had developed in Chicago with full success. Some of the blues musicians from Mississippi Delta are, brought their brands of that music to the city. The top famous artists of this industry in Chicago were Muddy Waters and Son House. They were playing the acoustic blues guitar until the audience became wild. When Howling Wolf came, he picked up the electric guitar and left the acoustic blues guitar away. The days of the new acoustic blues guitar began. Howling started with the assistance of other musicians recording classic acoustic blues on electric guitars, sending the new music to audiences. Later on, Robert Johnson became such a treasure.

For many years the electric guitar ruled the blues world and the Jimi Hendrix decided to record a short movie of himself playing and acoustic blues guitar and for just a little while we got to hear as close to the modern equivalent of those old classics that we will hear. As Jimi fired through Here My Train A Comin' it was just like being on the delta near the turn of the century when Robert Johnson would travel from small bar to small bar just to make a living playing his guitar. It was a great time that is lost forever.

The acoustic guitar gets its due once in a while on blues and rock records but it will never be a main instrument like it used to be all of those years ago. The sound can never be mistaken and the music played on it was right from the heart and we will never hear music played like that ever again.

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