By A Texas Reader
friday, august 16, 2024 at 09:20:29 a.m. edt
"influential british blues pioneer John Mayall dies at 90 at california home"
https://abc13.com/post/british-blues-musician-john-mayall-influenced-generation-rock/15087311/
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Eric Clapton is 79...I would have thought they were closer in age,one way or the other.
--GRA
Had a few of Mayall's early lp's but they never really grabbed me. He was the classic White guy playin' the blues but never really quite hit it. Just about every major White blues guitarist passed through his band at some point, even Clapton, and every one showed him up in the talent department.
Nobody like to admit it, because it's not pc, but the blues was created by black musicians using White folk, classical and gospel musical forms. I remember reading an article about a White musician who spent years in Africa trying to find musical forms that would have developed into the blues in America. He couldn't find anything that would have even remotely led to it's development. Reality is, without White music as a starting point for black musicians, the blues would never have been created.
So these blacks who say White men can't play the blues because it's cultural appropriation, then take away every White classical and folk influence from the blues and see what they have left.
blacks lie--and by repetition--they think their lies become believable/fact. Latest example is Kumalot Harris.Too many to mention there.
--GRA
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