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The Sun days - You Can't Make Me Make up My Mind

In the beginning the blues was purely the music of the black people of the south, had several forms, and was generally played slow and sad. But by the twenties, due to the popularity of African American blues singers like Bessie Smith, the 12 bar blues became the standard form of the blues and sub genres... Since that time many hybrid forms of the blues have developed including rock blues and even punk blues.

Jazz came out of those same southern African American communities at the same time, but was the result of the combining of African and European music. From the beginning jazz has always incorporated popular music of the time, and it is characterized by the use of blue notes, improvisation, syncopation, and what was coined the swung note. The term jazz encompasses early New Orleans Dixieland jazz, the big band music of the swing era, bebop, Latin jazz, fusion, acid jazz, funk, hip hop, and of course, the blues.

In the early part of the 20th century jazz and blues quickly spread up the Mississippi and all across the country and became the popular music of the day. Cities like Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and New York City became hotbeds of jazz and blues. As these African American creations became popular with the general population, writers began to put these previously unwritten songs down on paper... But one thing is certain, both jazz and blues are purely American art forms that originated in the United States, and many feel that jazz and blues are America’s greatest gift to world culture.
Source: Jazz and Blues - Who Knew! by Greg Tivis


The Sun days - You Can't Make Me Make up My Mind
  • Release Date: July 2015
  • Lyrics by: Joe Enocsson
  • Genre: Rock, Pop


"The Sun Days (not to be confused with England's The Sundays) are a guitar centric quintet from Gothenburg, Sweden. Led by the facile vocals of singer/model Elsa Fredriksson Holmgren, founding bandmembers also include Erik Bjarnar, Simon Boontham, Joe Enocsson, and Johan Ramnebrink."

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