Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.
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The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.
Hearing the blues changed my life.
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.
I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
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