Comments on: Can Anyone Tell Me Anything Interesting About Blues Music?

By: Atomic Mama

Atomic Mama — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:06:08 +0000

Yo’ Mama ought to tell you about it …

By: impalabo

impalabo — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:02:09 +0000

It’s a style of music that was born in the USA.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:58:29 +0000

wow
60srad has it right
ya gotta boogie man
the blues is ALL about “the feel”
I can show it, I can’t explain it

By: Will

Will — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:28:14 +0000

You can’t sing the blues unless you’ve picked cotton and Q-tips don’t count

By: Kimberly H

Kimberly H — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:22:05 +0000

Ok…Blues is essentially the basis of almost every genre of music out there.

By: Eric T

Eric T — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:24:17 +0000

to elaborate on Yellowbelly’s comment you may want to dig up the movie “Crossroads” w/ Scott Biao (yes, really). The artist in question here is most likely Robert Johnson.

By: acdc105

acdc105 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:29:38 +0000

It started so much!
Rock and Roll, Jazz, even the trash that is listened to on the radio today would not be here without blues!
Jazz evolved from blues, Rock evolved from Jazz, etc.
etc.
etc.

By: fixed wheel yellowbelly

fixed wheel yellowbelly — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:01:17 +0000

How else could you summon the devil than by simply turning up at a crossroads at midnight. The devil will tune your guitar for you and you will be the greatest guitarist of your time.
The devil will then claim your soul.

By: conchobo

conchobo — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:31:52 +0000

The blues is about healing.
It is about good people making bad choices, or stuck in bad situations. Happens to us all sometimes.
Willie Dixon: “The blues is truth, if it isn’t the truth, then it isn’t the blues”

By: A bit clueless

A bit clueless — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:02:29 +0000

You has to be soul. If music isn’t oozing emotion, (in the case of the blues, saddness) then it’s garbage, in my opinion. Now, that doesn’t mean all music other than blues is garbage. Heavy metal oozes anger. Country oozes “unprotected sex with women who act like men.”
A line I used in my College Personal Statement is this:
“Playing the blues is like letting your thoughts and feelings flow through your fingers and letting your guitar say them when you can’t. It’s like the feeling of after a good cry”