"BLUES? IN DETROIT? You mean that they actually still play blues in Detroit?"
It’s understood that when Blacks started coming up here they brought their wives, and kids, and recipes, and churches, and do-rags, so there is no reason to assume that they didn’t bring their music - which, in non-religious circles, was blues.
"BLUES? IN DETROIT? You mean that they actually still play blues in Detroit?"
It’s understood that when Blacks started coming up here they brought their wives, and kids, and recipes, and churches, and do-rags, so there is no reason to assume that they didn’t bring their music - which, in non-religious circles, was blues. This makes sense. People don’t come out of a vacuum to a city, naked of culture and past. They bring along their old culture and modify it to the urban setting, adding and subtracting where appropriate. Characteristically the old culture resists change. The
