{
  "name": "Acoustic Blues",
  "description": "Developed out of Work Song and Spirituals to become the most prominent early form of Blues.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/acoustic-blues/",
  "parent": "Blues",
  "level": "sub",
  "children_count": 4,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Acoustic Chicago Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/acoustic-chicago-blues/",
      "description": "Unplugged Blues made in the Chicago region, primarily during the 1930s and 1940s.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Acoustic Blues"
    },
    {
      "name": "Acoustic Texas Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/acoustic-texas-blues/",
      "description": "Laid-back swing rhythms and guitar ornamentation, including solos.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Acoustic Blues"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jug Band",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jug-band/",
      "description": "Usually features a jug as the bass instrument as well as other homemade (or easily affordable) instruments, such as kazoos and washboards.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Acoustic Blues"
    },
    {
      "name": "Piedmont Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/piedmont-blues/",
      "description": "Developed in the early 20th century in the southern Appalachian foothills and characterized by a syncopated but melodic Ragtime-based finger-picking acoustic guitar style.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Acoustic Blues"
    }
  ]
}