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.
Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, and emerged in the early 1950s. The term rockabilly is a marriage of rock (from rock 'n' roll) and hillbilly, the latter a reference to the country music (often called hillbilly music in the 1940s and 1950s) that contributed strongly to the style's development.