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==Derivative forms== {{more citations needed|section|date=November 2017}} {{Listen |filename=Red Dog Shuffle - Colin Ross Quartet.ogv |title="Red Dog Shuffle" |description=A contemporary boogie-woogie}} The boogie-woogie fad lasted from the late 1930s into the early 1950s,<ref>Palmer, Robert, ''Deep Blues'', 1981, p. 130.</ref> and made a major contribution to the development of [[jump blues]] and ultimately to rock and roll, epitomized by [[Fats Domino]], [[Little Richard]] and [[Jerry Lee Lewis]]. [[Louis Jordan]] is a famous jump blues musician. Boogie-woogie is still to be heard in clubs and on records throughout Europe and North America. [[Big Joe Duskin]] displayed on his 1979 album, ''Cincinnati Stomp'', a command of piano blues and boogie-woogie, which he had absorbed at first hand in the 1940s from Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson.<ref name="russell">{{cite book | first= Tony | last= Russell | year= 1997 | title= The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray | publisher= Carlton Books Limited | location= Dubai | isbn= 1-85868-255-X | page= 108}}</ref> The trickle of what was initially called hillbilly boogie, or Okie boogie (later to be renamed country boogie), became a flood beginning around late 1945. One notable country boogie song from this period was the [[Delmore Brothers|Delmore Brothers']] "Freight Train Boogie". More representative examples can be found in some of the songs of Western swing pioneer [[Bob Wills]]. The hillbilly boogie period lasted into the 1950s, the last recordings of this era were made by [[Tennessee Ernie Ford]] with [[Cliffie Stone]] and his orchestra with the guitar duo [[Jimmy Bryant]] and [[Speedy West]]. [[Bill Haley (musician)|Bill Haley]] and the Saddlemen recorded "Sundown Boogie" in 1952, which once again featured the guitar playing the boogie-woogie rhythm. Boogie-woogie continued in country music through the end of the 20th century. [[The Charlie Daniels Band]] (whose earlier tune "The South's Gonna Do It Again" uses boogie-woogie influences) released "Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues" in 1988, and three years later in 1991 [[Brooks & Dunn]] had a huge hit with "[[Boot Scootin' Boogie]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/brooks_and_dunn/25957/album.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040222172301/http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/brooks_and_dunn/25957/album.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 22, 2004 |title=Brand New Man by Brooks & Dunn |website=Cmt.com |date=1991-01-01 |access-date=2016-10-05}}</ref> In addition, some tradition-minded country artists, such as [[Asleep at the Wheel]], [[Merle Haggard]], and [[George Strait]], incorporated boogie-woogie in their recordings. In the many styles of blues, especially [[Chicago blues]] and (more recently) [[West Coast blues]], some pianists and guitarists were influenced by, and employed, the traditional boogie-woogie styles. Some of the earliest and most influential were [[Big Maceo Merriweather]] and [[Sunnyland Slim]]. [[Otis Spann]] and [[Pinetop Perkins]], two of the best-known blues pianists, are heavily boogie-woogie influenced, with the latter taking both his name and signature tune from Pinetop Smith. In [[European classical music|Western classical music]], the [[composer]] [[Conlon Nancarrow]] was also deeply influenced by boogie-woogie, as many of his early works for [[player piano]] demonstrate. "A Wonderful Time Up There" is a boogie-woogie gospel song. In 1943, [[Morton Gould]] composed "Boogie-Woogie Etude" for classical pianist [[JosΓ© Iturbi]], who premiered and recorded it that year. [[Povel Ramel]]'s first hit in 1944 was "Johanssons boogie-woogie-vals" where he mixed boogie-woogie with [[waltz]]. Twenty-first-century commentators have also noted the characteristics of boogie-woogie in the third variation of the second movement of [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]'s [[Piano Sonata No. 32 (Beethoven)|Piano Sonata No. 32]], written between 1821 and 1822β60 years prior to creation of the genre.<ref name=denk>{{cite AV media notes |last=Denk |first=Jeremy |year=2012 |title=Ligeti/Beethoven |others=[[Jeremy Denk]] |type=booklet |publisher=[[Nonesuch Records]]}}</ref>
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