The Blues: The Sound of Rural Poverty
AC/DC's song "You Shook Me All Night Long" came from the lyrics of Muddy Waters's
You Shook Me
What the devil did to Robert Johnson's guitar, making Johnson able to play the blues
Leonard and Phil Chess bought a Chicago record label and renamed it to _________ Records.
Chess
___________ __________ (2 words) are boxes that alter how guitars sound.
Effects pedals
Howlin’ Wolf got his nickname because his grandfather would scold him for choking his grandma’s __________ to death, saying a wolf would come get him if he kept doing it.
Chickens
Robert Johnson actually learned to play guitar in one of these
Graveyard
The Delta blues was very acoustically driven, and moving to Chicago introduced _________ guitars that would power through the loudness of Chicago nightclubs.
electric
____________ happens when guitarists turn their guitar amps up as loud as they can and it makes the noise sound crunchy.
Overdrive
Muddy Waters is often cited as the “father of modern ___________ blues.”
Chicago
The amount of months Robert Johnson actively made music
seven
Jacob Lawrence painted a series of paintings called __________, which he completed between 1940 and 1941.
Migration
Gretsch made Fender change its name from Broadcaster to _________ after a few months.
Telecaster
Once Muddy Waters grew up, he would use his cabin as a ___________ ___________ on the weekends where visitors could party and drink his homemade moonshine.
Juke joint
Name of the Plantation that was near the Crossroads where Johnson allegedly sold his soul
Dockery Plantation
When Muddy Waters first moved to Chicago, his music was referred to as ______________ music because of his background in Mississippi.
Sharecropper
The Esquire and Broadcaster shared the same design, But the _________ didn’t have the shiny Silver pickup near the neck Because it was a cheaper model
Esquire
5. “__________” by Green Day is an example of a __________ bass line.
Longview; walking
Man who taught Robert Johnson how to play guitar
Ike Zimmerman
The ______________ ___________ (2 words) is an African-American ran newspaper that has been going since 1905.
Chicago Defender
In 1936, Gibson started building the ____________.
ES150