I am a fan of blues music, a duffer guitar player, and a founding member of the Magic City Blues Society.
Blues is the original American music. Beginning in the late 1800s among black sharecroppers in the
Mississippi delta, it was a simple, hardscrabble music proclaiming the hard life and times. Blues
became a commercial music in the 1920s, through the recordings of Blind Lemon Jefferson, and
has been going since. Blues is still going strong today in all it's forms, from the original guitar-and-harmonica
form, to electric power blues, to it's child, Rock & Roll.