Re: [Harp-L] re: Review of Cadillac Records Movie

["James D Hoskins" <jameshoskinz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the 1950's/60's I grew up a germanic white farm boy in Iowa, in our house 
I heard Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Wynonnie Harris, BB King, a whole lot 
of Louis Jordan, and all the 40's/50's swing and jump stuff, plus a great 
deal of jazz. (And of course, Lawrencw Welk at Grandma's after sunday 
dinner!) This probably was a bit unusual (not L.Welk), and maybe doesn't 
qualify as a "blues scene", but I don't believe 'that music' ever went as 
unoticed and ignored as so many seem to think. My take has always been that 
if my parents, in Dallas county Iowa had 78's by these artists, there had to 
be plenty of others. It wasn't unusual to pull in radio from Chicago, Kansas 
City, St Louis, and even Texas, Ok, or Mexico at night back then in the 
midwest. It was all AMERICAN MUSIC, and I think many of us were listening, 
or it wouldn't be so ingrained in us today. The Butterfield's and 
Bloomfield's certainly boosted the attention, and popularized the music, 
much as Akroyd and Belushi, or SRV, but as art, I've often had questions as 
to whether that was a good thing or not. It was after seeing Butterfield in 
early 1967 that I bought my first marine band, but the seed had been planted 
long before, you didn't have to be black, or even live in a city to be 
exposed to the blues in the 50'/60's. 
That is just my take on that 'blues revival' thing, JD