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>There's strong evidence that nigs didn't even create the blues.
>There's some musicologists who claim that blues chord progressions have a much more clear and direct lineage with Celtic and British folk songs than anything from Africa. This is of course considered a "fringe theory" but when you think about it, it actually makes sense.
no, there is zero evidence that blues came from celtic music, blues sounds like blues because blues invented many things that makes it sound uniquely bluesy

12 bar blues is a I-IV-V progression and all the chords are 7th chords. Diatonically only the V chord is a 7th chord which makes it want to resolve to the I chord. But since all 3 chords are 7th chords they all three resolve into each other which gives the music strong motion. The fact that all three chords are 7th chords gives these major chords a minor sound, so it doesnt sound major anymore.

The Blues Scale adds a 4th note to the pentatonic scale. The 4th is not diatonic to the scale but somehow it works as a passing note.

Also Blues invented swung rhythm which give it a very sexual pounding stripper music sound.