Soul blues

Soul blues
Soul blues
Stylistic origins	Electric blues; soul; rhythm and blues;
Cultural origins	1950s, United States

Soul blues is a style of blues music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s that combines elements of soul music and urban contemporary music.^[1]

Origin

African American singers and musicians who grew up listening to the electric blues by artists such as Muddy Waters,^[2] Jimmy Reed, and Elmore James, and soul singers such as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles^[3] and Otis Redding^[4] fused blues and soul music.^[1] Bobby Bland was one of the pioneers of this style.^[1]

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Soul blues

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Soul blues
Stylistic origins	Electric blues soul rhythm and blues
Cultural origins	1950s, United States