Sam Myers, The Blues is my Story by Jeff Horton

Author:Jeff Horton [Horton, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE BLUES

What is the meaning of the blues? How does it feel to have the blues?

What’s it like to listen to the blues? There are as many answers to questions like these as there are blues fans, scholars, and musicians. Everyone hears and understands the blues in a different way. A student of the blues could spend the rest of his or her life reading, researching, writing, and talking about the blues and barely scratch the surface of this deep subject.

So, what does one do to try to gain an understanding of the blues? There is really no firm answer, except for what one finds within one’s own soul that resonates to the blues. Or, one can seek out a blues artist, a longtime practitioner of the art and member of a dwindling generation that will all too soon be lost to history as age and time finally take their toll. Here, Sam expresses his feelings on what the blues means to him, discusses some notable blues musicians and blues styles, and describes his unique song-writing process.

Now I’ll talk about the blues and what the blues means to me. I looked at the blues for a long time before even studying its contents. To me, people often look at blues as being depressing and about hardships.

Well, that’s true. But there are three known directions blues can go in. One, there are some happy blues, and then there are blues where

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T H E B L U E S

you have problems, to where you can’t see your economic situation.

And then it can be just a story sung musically about the facts of life.

It don’t always have to be about a woman. It could be something that happened to you, or it could be something that you’ve seen happen

to someone else. I’ve heard it said, and I go along with it, that it takes a worried man to sing a worried song, but that’s not always the blues.

It’s the way you feel about it, the way you express it.

The blues is really expressing in a musical story form the way

you feel about something. And in order for it to go over big for you, you have to have a feeling for what you’re doing. That’s what it really means to me. And it’s not all of the time that the words of a song

should rhyme. It would be better if it did rhyme, but it’s just like telling a story. It’s a very simple thing, but people look at it as being hard.

But it really is a simple thing, that’s why you have a lot of music that is being played right today that got its start from the blues. And it’s just telling a true story about the facts of life, the hardships. Or maybe in some ways, it’s a story about that you are happy. Usually, a blues song is about a woman. If it’s a blues song, in order to make it a happy blues song, it’s

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