matthewr
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The thing I don’t understand about blues is where all the polished, pristine, virtuoso stuff even comes from?! The ‘classic’ stuff (Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Sister Rosetta Tharpe etc) was all wonderfully raw, edgy and to the point. This is the stuff I think of when the word ‘blues’ is mentioned.
I think the bit that makes the great stuff, great is separate from technique, so you can be an average technician or a virtuoso and still have "it". Where it goes wrong is when people try to overcome their lack of "it" by becoming a virtuoso and then get famous because of their dazzling chops.