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Blues......."simple songs with simple chord structures about hard but simple lifestyles all made very complicated by attitudes and virtuoso performances"


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During the fifties and early sixties when blues first became popular here in the UK it was the exclusive domain of middle-upper class geeks who strived to have the best collection of rare imported American Blues records. Many top American Blues artists were invited over to play top paying sell out gigs. These artists, Howlin Wolf, BB King, Big Bill etc etc were amazed to find themselves playing to weird, white, mainly male audiences who knew all their songs and even more amazed to be treated like royalty by white folks when in their own country they could not even use the same washrooms never mind playing to packed out white audiences.