Re: North American VS Foreign Blues Music?

On 5 Oct 2007 16:43:54 +0000, "Angus Manwaring"
<angus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> puked:

>On 02-Oct-07 18:29:37, lab~rat  >:-) said
>>On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:48:07 -0400, "Dan Solway" <dsolway@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>puked:
>
>>>Do you think North American blues is better because of the music or
only
>>>because you understand the lyrics?
>>>
>
>>Eric Clapton was pretty good...
>
>Yes.  :)
>
>I think the question is really whether non-black blues is as good. I
think
>there's a strong case for saying that most of white America didn't get
>Blues until the British ( bowled over by black American musicians like
>Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson etc) brought it back to America in white
>packaging. Of course that's not the whole story.


Well, I didn't see it as a black vs. white thing, I saw it as N.
America vs. other countries.  That said, I'd put BB King above
Clapton.

--
lab~rat  >:-)
Stupid humans...