One doesn't have to be fully down in the dumps to enjoy a nice helping of the low down dirty blues. The blues of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, and even Chuck Berry can take a feeling and put it to the swaying rhythm of the music. There are many forms of the blues genre. There is the Chicago, the Mississippi Delta, Beale Street, and the Hillbilly style of blues. No music can be as sweet as the sound of a gritty guitar rift with an accord of drums and bass. The lyrics has to tell of the heartache and troubles that one faces from day to day living. If a person is to be a true human, they are to experience the sorrows and woes of life. It has never been captured as well, as in a well drafted blues song. I've been to Beale Street in Memphis, and that's where I fell in love with the sound. I've always been a fan, even as a small boy, but the blues is not a child's music. The blues is sung by adults for adults. The blues is the greatest sound to a rebel, a prophet, or the depressed. It is meant for the rich, as well as the poor. Everyone gets down and it is good to relate to the music of one's life. For some it is the blues, and to some it is the opera. Music is a medicine for the soul. |
