Mothers and Fathers
Influences
Who's That Instrument?
Geography
Vocabulary
100
This artist is known as the Father of the Delta Blues.
Who is Charley Patton?
100
This word describes the most common lyrical topics of Blues music, which include love, life, and other ____
What are problems?
100
This instrument goes by two different names. One when played classically, and this other one when played in a country style:
What is a fiddle?
100
Where the original Blues came from
What is the Mississippi Delta?
100
Electric is the opposite of this word, referring to non-electric instruments
What is Acoustic?
200
This artist's stage name was "The Singing Breakman". His working man act and his addition of yodelling to the genre earned him the title "Father of Country Music".
Who is Jimmie Rogers?
200
Blues music was primarily influenced by the songs and traditions of what group of people, recently given a new status by a very famous president.
Who are freed enslaved people?
200
This instrument is commonly used in Bluegrass and Country music:
What is the Banjo?
200
One of the cities that the Urban Blues was created in, this one just happens to be in Illinois.
What is Chicago?
200
The lyrics of early Blues songs were almost always in this simple form.
What is AAB Form?
300
This artist is known as the Mother of the Blues, and is famous for songs such as "See See Rider" and "Deep Moanin' Blues".
Who is Ma Rainey?
300
The main reason that Jimmie Rogers and other early Country artists dressed up as coal miners and train workers were to appeal to this group of people.
What is the working class?
300
These two types of the same instruments are both used in Blues and Country music. One in the early years, and one in the modern era: 
What are acoustic and electric guitars?
300
This region is where Country music was created, but be careful of how you pronounce it if you plan to visit.
What is Appalachia?
300
This vocal techniques was created by Jimmie Rogers, and is quite impressive!
What is yodelling?
400
This famous inventor created the first recording device that could record and playback sound, known as the phonograph, in 1877.
Who is Thomas Edison?
400
Urban Blues music was created in Northern Cities after the movement of large numbers of African American people during this "great" movement.
What is the Great Migration?
400
This common instrument has 88 keys, and is both a percussion and a string instrument.
What is a piano?
400
A West Coast City that also gave rise to the Urban Blues. Why do they need two football teams? Who knows!
What is Los Angeles?
400
These are the two types of Blues music, one found in the country and the other in cities (hence their names)
What are the Delta and Urban Blues?
500
The artist created Bluegrass music as a way to honor the traditionally music of his homestate of Kentucky. Notably, it doesn't utilize percussion or electric instruments.
Who is Bill Monroe?
500
The Great Depression brought about hardship for all people in the 1930s. They looked to these types of people in their Country music to lift their spirits and give them a taste of the "good life".
What are Cowboys?
500
These two instruments are less common percussion instruments used in Country music. They are made from items that would have been found in every house in the early 20th century.
What are spoons and washboards?
500
This city is the home of the Grand Ol' Opry, the longest running radio station in the country.
What is Nashville?
500
Another word refering to the quality of an audio recording.
What is fidelity?