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.
Rock Me Baby  is a blues standard that has become one of the most recorded blues songs of all time. When B.B. King 's recording of Rock Me Baby was released in 1964, it became his first Top 40 hit. It is based on earlier blues songs and has been interpreted and recorded by numerous artists in a variety of styles.