But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.
The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.
I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.
When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.
I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.
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