Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s . Blues incorporated spirituals,work songs, field hollers, shouts, spirituals, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern (the blues scale and specific chord progressions) of which the twelve-bar blues i…