Sam Myers - between the 1950's and the 2000's
from Sam Myers: The Blues is My Story, page 86:
That's where your blues starts. Basically, it's when you don't have something you need, or it's something that could be handled in a way that you could still have it and still be blue.
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A really great blues song has certain things about it. [...] Anything can turn to blues . It just goes with the flow of the facts of life.
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A good example of a great blues musician who could bring out that kind of emotion would be one of the world's greatest as he is known today. He's a guitarist and he's recognized. The person that I'm speaking about is known to be … more >>
Jeff Horton and Sam Myers, Sam Myers: The Blues is My Story (City of Jackson, 2006), p. 86. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1432635100697 accessed: 8 September, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersBlues | performed by Bobby “Blue” Bland, B.B. King |
Experience Information
Date/Time | between the 1950's and the 2000's |
Notes
Sam Myers talks about the emotional background of blues.