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Bonnie Greer: The blues, Obama and me

Slim Harpo - Baby Scratch My Back
The Independent - read the full article here The Devil At The Crossroads Traditional blues is not about analyses and codification. It is about signs and portents, deeply felt emotion plainly spoken; forbidden sex; doomed love; intuition; chance; and a world without the God you were given when they threw you off the boat after the Middle Passage. Pretty frightening stuff at the high tables of the West. The real blues is about feeling when to come in, feeling when to do it. The Delta Blues – named after [...]