Motherâs Day: Inspiration for Fatherâs Day. The âMotherâs Dayâ we celebrate today has its origins in the peace-and-reconciliation campaigns of the post-Civil War era. During the 1860s, at the urging of activist Ann Reeves Jarvis, one divided West Virginia town celebrated âMotherâs Work Daysâ that brought together the mothers of Confederate and Union soldiers.
The Texas blues, Memphis blues, and St. Louis blues consist of a wide variety of subgenres. Louisiana blues is characterized by a swampy guitar or harmonica sound with lots of echo, while Kansas City blues is jazz orientedâthink Count Basie. There is also the British blues, a rock-blues hybrid pioneered by John Mayall, Peter Green and Eric Clapton.
In 1922, blues singer Trixie Smith recorded My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll), first featuring the two words in a secular context. Although it was played with a backbeat and was one of the first around the clock lyrics, this slow minor-key blues was by no means rock and roll in the later sense.