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tacocat · 3678 days ago · link · · parent · post: Who Likes "the Blues?" Does the Blues suck? ---- I'm talking to you Hubski
I'm not too familiar with modern blues. Bluesy rock like the Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, some Whites Stripes can be pretty awesome. The important thing about the blues is it's like the grandfather of all modern american music, even country. I can listen to some Leadbelly or Robert Johnson, it's really not my favorite, but from those simple songs sung by poor black folks branched and mutated into rock, R&B, country and rap. Does modern blues suck? I don't know. Probably. It's not exactly a hotbed of innovation driven by popularity. Is Stevie Ray Vaughn blues? He's been dead over 20 years but he's pretty awesome.