Harmonica Blues 5,261 Releases Help contribute to Discogs by writing this style’s description ?️.Electric Blues 17,710 Releases Help contribute to Discogs by writing this style’s description ?️.East Coast Blues 1,079 Releases Help contribute to Discogs by writing this style’s description ?️.Delta Blues 7,457 Releases Help contribute to Discogs by writing this style’s description ?️.Country Blues 16,353 Releases Also known as folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues, Country Blues is not a mix of Country music and Blues but designed a kind of acoustic blues rooted in rural places.Chicago Blues 14,807 Releases Help contribute to Discogs by writing this style’s description ?️.During the 1940s the influence of boogie woogie extended further into rhythm & blues and gospel. There was a boogie woogie “craze” during the late 1930s which saw the style become widely popular and many classic recordings were made at this time (notable performers include Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Meade “Lux” Lewis).ĭuring the 1930s boogie woogie also started to influence other styles of music including big band and country, and many big band and country boogie instrumentals were recorded. His 1928 recording “Pinetop’s Boogie Boogie” is generally regarded as the first use of the term. There is some debate about which was the earlest boogie recording, but certainly Pine Top Smith was an early exponent of this style.
It was first recorded during the 1920s so should not be applied to any earlier recordings. Boogie Woogie 3,434 Releases Originally a piano based blues/jazz instrumental style.For an even cooler visual tool, check out our map of musical styles by region.Įxplore, discover, and, if you have the knowledge to share, consider adding more information to a style page’s description!Įxplore descriptions and popular styles within each genre. We created this so Contributors can compare styles for new releases and as a fun way for you to unearth the different connections between releases. A style can be as broad as Ambient, as specific as New Jack Swing, or regional like Norteño.īelow, you’ll find an exhaustive list of all the styles in the Database broken up by their parent genre. Discogs Contributors are consistently adding new styles to the Database, and you can too by submitting an official request. Styles: The more specific term that applies to different kinds of music, grouped together under genres. The genres on Discogs range from hip-hop to classical to stage and screen. They don’t necessarily mirror genres defined by other high-profile sites (for example, Billboard). Genres were decided by Discogs Contributors when the Database launched in 2000. Genres: The umbrella classification that houses different styles. Think about it - how hard is it to accurately describe a piece of music? How many arguments over genres have you had with your friends? Few releases have a categorical style, so they are often assigned based on subjectivity. The genre and style definitions on Discogs are based on how releases are tagged by Contributors. Sometimes these nebulous similarities are geographic in nature sometimes they are purely stylistic. Genres and styles are another way to connect these releases, albeit in a more subjective way. We categorize and connect releases in a few different ways at Discogs: by looking at the musicians who created them, the labels that produced them, the years that define them, and the formats you can find them recorded on. There are more than 13 million unique physical music releases in the Discogs Database.