<P> Electric blues refers to any type of blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments . The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T - Bone Walker in the late 1930s and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters in the 1940s . Their styles developed into West Coast blues , Detroit blues , and post-World War II Chicago blues , which differed from earlier , predominantly acoustic - style blues . By the early 1950s , Little Walter was a featured soloist on blues harmonica or blues harp using a small hand - held microphone fed into a guitar amplifier . Although it took a little longer , the electric bass guitar gradually replaced the stand - up bass by the early 1960s . Electric organs and especially keyboards later became widely used in electric blues . </P>
<P> Electric blues refers to any type of blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments . The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T - Bone Walker in the late 1930s and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters in the 1940s . Their styles developed into West Coast blues , Detroit blues , and post-World War II Chicago blues , which differed from earlier , predominantly acoustic - style blues . By the early 1950s , Little Walter was a featured soloist on blues harmonica or blues harp using a small hand - held microphone fed into a guitar amplifier . Although it took a little longer , the electric bass guitar gradually replaced the stand - up bass by the early 1960s . Electric organs and especially keyboards later became widely used in electric blues . </P>
first blues artist to play the electric guitar
first blues artist to play the electric guitar
T - Bone Walker
T - Bone Walker