DMW # 26 : VA - White Blues, part 1 (In Memoriam)

According to wikipedia.com, “Blues is a music genre and musical form which was originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s by African-Americans from roots in African-American work songs and spirituals. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.…”.

In the first years of my contact with foreign music, there was no Wikipedia in Greece, so both I and most of my friends used to call “blues” all the slow songs that accompanied the party nights and were an opportunity to dance with the girls. Put on a “blues”, I was often told since most of the time I was in charge of music. One day or rather one night I took with me one of the few records that were in the house, a gift from someone who worked at the American Base and when the familiar phrase “put on a blues”  was heard, the record started spinning and everyone stopped and looked at me with wonder.

Many years have passed since then, but blues music has always been in my choices, so today [and the next two weeks] I will remember it again, choosing songs from white representatives of the genre.

"White Blues" is the title of the collection and the 1^st part is in memoriam of those who took the stairway to heaven, after many years of performing.