"Born under a bad sign, been down since I began to crawl. If it wasn’t for bad
luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all"
- Albert King
Artists are connected to each decade by one or more of their songs
(represented by the connecting lines).
Our Bluesy Project Research
In honor of the many legends of the blues, our project team
gathered our vast collection of blues lyrics from various foundational blues
artists to conduct intriguing analysis on various aspects of the blues.
Our primary research questions include:
- How many of the blues songs from our collection were
written and performed by the same artist?
- How many original songs are widely shared across many
different perfomring artists?
- What is the decade range of our blues song collection?
- How many blues artists in our collection have written
songs which outlived them, or at least their own performances?
- Which artists and songwriters tend to be interconnected
the most? (Performer/Songwriter relationship patterns)
- Are there key words or phrases that tend to be used
frequently across our collection of lyrics? What are they, and what are
their origins or significance to the blues genre?
