In the American South and especially in the Delta of Mississippi, slavery, exploitation, racism, the violation of human rights and pain was the reality that Afro-American people were experiencing soon after the civil war. Means of expression in this forced way of living and slavery for them became music! Therefore, during the end of the 19^th century the melancholic blues, or otherwise known as the songs of <<the plantation>> were born.

Blues, during its primitive years, were passed down via memory, from mouth to mouth, creating a speaking tradition. They were mostly ballads, church hymns, and rhythmic and dancing songs, with the main instrument being the drum. It was consisted of 12 meters, each one containing 4 periods while a worth mentioning aspect of them was the often irregular tone of their voice. Their name (blues), aside from the color blue, also means melancholy, while in Greek it can also be translated as “I am having my blacks”.

Through these songs, slaves would express with passion their pains and sacrifices of slavery, the complaints, the sadness and disappointment that they felt for their misfortune. From the mid until the end of 1800, a big part of “blues” was still not written, they were lost just like their creators. In 1920 they started spreading more widely. Gradually, “blues”, affected by Jazz, adopted a more <<electronic>> shape, leaving behind their prior spiritual character. They became the “explosive blues” of Junk Houses.

Blues is a music genre that continues, till today, to be loved by people. The main reason being…it constitutes an honest narration of human suffering!