The California Blues: A Musical Journey from the South to the West Coast

"Blues is a feeling. It's all in what happened in my life or to someone else's life, which is the true facts and a feeling. When you've been mistreated, you're not the onliest one. Someone else in the world has been mistreated-that's the blues. It's all in your feeling and the feeling is a true part of life."̶ Jimmy McCracklin, from The California Blues"Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore."̶ B.B. King"If you don't know the blues, there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing a rock and roll or any other form of popular music." ̶ Keith Richards"The Blues had a baby and they called it Rock and Roll."̶ Muddy Waters "The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life."̶ Eric Clapton"Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow."̶ Nina Simone"The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning."̶ John Lee Hooker Read more