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

[harmoniman@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I don't think i'm as old as old as you,Phil, but this whippersnapper remembers hearing Mississippi Fred McDowell ,Howlin wolf, and Muddy Waters on "Expermental Rock Station", WMMR 93.3 fm in the early '60's. Those were the days !

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From: Philharpn@xxxxxxx 

> I can't remember exactly when I first heard blues on Detroit AM radio in the 
> 50s. 
> 
> But a lot of you youngsters have to remember that......... hits "Got My Mojo Working" by rock star 
> Muddy Waters. 
> 
>  
> . Even smaller stations could be heard. 

>( Ahh,the days of DX ing.)

> And don't forget the border stations in Mexico  ( anybody remember Doug Sahm ?) 
with their mega-watt 
> transmitters (illegal in the US) aimed at USA teens. 
> 

> 
> So blues was always in the air. 
> 
> It was not mainstream, but neither was country> 
> The folk revival of the 50s-60s led the rediscovery of old blues players from 
> the 30s and sent them across the country: Son House, Mississippi John Hurt. 
> Big Bill Broonzy (who died in 1958) appeared on 
> Studs Turkel's radio show in Chicago and was certainly heard by lots of 
> people who were not tuned into the blues community, but they were tuned into 
> Studs. 
> 
> 
> Phil  
> 
> 
> In a message dated 12/20/08 11:06:59 AM, jameshoskinz@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: 
> 
, 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 
> > 
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