And here with my friend Messina (on bluesharp and vocals):

 

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Hey Peghead... Nice tracks! Real beauty. Now everybody's singin' the Deep River Blues.

 

I've never been a huge blues fan, in the truest sense of the word, though Robert Johnson was a man possessed, so to speak. I think the prevalence of male vocals has as much to do with this as the simplicity (and relative repeatativity) of the genre, as I don't particilarly care for the voices of men in melodic music. That said, I have always loved jazz blues when sung by Billie or Nina, both of whom shall haunt my soul for as long as my soul shall persist.

 

As a fan of classical music, I find the chordal limitations tend to put me off rather in the way that reggae does with its rythmic ones. Don't even go down the EDM path.
I also think that being the first thing you usually learn to play on guitar, has had it's effect on my perception of blues. The day I learned the lick in Broonzy's hey bud blues however made me appreciate virtuosity within a genre of music that I don't like ie country. The main thing for me is that blues was a stepping stone to rock.

 

Thank you plowhorse, much appreciated There is more where those 2 song come from but I don't want to spam the thread.

 

Every note it is a teardrop, a song, protracted sigh
All in hopes the endgame
We are nutured by and by

Copywrite 2018
SLS

That's what the blues is about, a container for our human suffering and pain in the hope of some form of deliverence. When it's done right it is projected in a beeline from the heart. It is, like all true genres of art, confrontational in so far as the honesty of the artist can be mirrored sympathetically, vibrationally by the observer of that art and not something seperate or apart.

 

Whenever people discuss the blues, i feel like the guy @1:33 in top right corner.

...but i digress. Feat are probably jazz, because Lowell George's DOC

 

I have jammed with Richie Hayward, and let me tell you, that cat could lay down one hellova groove, RIP! And you are prolly right about Little Feat being jazz, but WTF is DOC?

 

Drug Of Choice. Still riffing on John Waters' "jazz is the sound of heroin" bit https://rateyourmusic.com/list/headphonian/jazz_artists_who_were_heroin_addicts/

 

But not just heroin...also pizza! Just ask Fred Tackett!
Anyway, the only song that comes close to the blues (the rest of her catalogue is more of a heady nature, Fools In Love a stunning example) by his over the top talented daughter Inara, is what I believe a song penned and sung to her late father Lowell, who she has by and by come to look an aweful lot alike in these last years. The Malibu surf crashing into her is quite apropos as well as appropriate and might have well been either a happy accident or a foolish errand trying to film as the tide was seemingly coming in.

 

DO NOT TAKE WHAT IS WRITTEN BELLOW AS AN ENDORSEMENT FOR DRUGS OF ANY KIND.

Some of the most devastating drugs can teach a person a lot about themselves, longing and love. When you are an addict you love your drug of choice, you would do anything for it, your addiction is love and not all loves are healthy. Some of the most devastatingly beautiful songs or melodies were written for drugs... The only other thing that can probably compete with an addicts love of their drugs of choice is probably a child cause for most of them even death isn't that much of a deterrent.

It still takes a special person to make others feel what they feel, but drugs that take you over like heroine or opium can just make you feel what most people just don't want to feel themselves... It's not that expand your mind shtick but heroine and opium have been around for a lot longer that Jazz, Blues, or Rock and Roll.

I digress..... music is about emotion the Blues is a distillation of what is one humanities core emotions - long lasting internal pain and sadness. We are not the lonely creatures on this planet to feel or remember but its not a common thing and since we can not communicate other animals just yet we don't know if they sing sad songs.

Liquor has killed people too .... where is that list of famous artists or scientists who drank themselves to death....

 

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That one is a much longer list.