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On The Blues I have reason to believe I know what I'm talking about. See, I was born a mile and a half from the corner of Beale and Main Streets in Memphis Tennessee (see map) where stands today a statue of W.C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues". I grew up across the Mississippi River in a little, post-WWII house (see map) less than 200 meters from a cotton field (now long gone), and about the same distance from Highway 61 (now rerouted) in West Memphis, Arkansas. So, I know a little something about cotton sack breaking and acking back, snaggletoothed black folks and their Blues--at least I have seen and heard it--real, live, where it was born."

Grammy Award and the Pulitzer Prize winning jazz master Wynton Marsalis says the Blues "is the true American music -- the heartbeat and unifying principle of jazz, country, R&B, gospel and other styles ... It runs through all American music." [cite] Certainly, it is in Rock & Roll, and in my opinion a lot of what is called Blues in Denmark today is actually too far from the true cotton patch roots of The Blues to be called anything other than blues-rock, or Texas-blues in the most liberal use of the term.

I know The Blues that I like, and I'd bet it is not too far from what you like too. Check out my Blues Calendar where you can see who I hope to soon hear in Denmark or my Blues Links where you can jump to what's happening around my area.

Yours in Blues,

  DenverD
  A Texan in Denmark