Re: [Harp-L] The Blues In Any Color

[Mike Rogers <bullfrog9@xxxxxxx>]

thanks John and rob. I like those three words, "just enjoy it".

Bullfrog

MundHarp@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I am a "white boy"...
> I have been playing blues on the harmonica for 47 years now. Since I  was 
> 13 years old. I'm now aged 60.
> I'm about the same age as Peter Ruth, and he is a great blues player... And 
>  white.
> My mortgage is foreclosed and I'll be homeless from 20th July.
> Does the fact I'm about to be homeless "allow" me to be a blues  player?
> OF COURSE NOT.
> Blues has NOTHING to do with colour or lack of money...
> BLUES is music that comes from a person's heart and soul.
> Back in 1981, I married a black woman, now my ex-wife. Her name is Natalie. 
>  She likes "Country and Western music" SHE IS BLACK.. I am white. She can't 
> play  or sing blues.
> I have two wonderful "duel heritage" children.
> Does that mean that my wonderful kids, because they are "of color",  can 
> play blues and I can't because I am a  white English person?
> OF COURSE NOT.
> There is plenty of RUBBISH so called "Music" being created by lots of  
> people. The colour of their skin has NOTHING to do with it!
> BLUES is a wonderful music probably invented in Africa, and taken to  
> America by people who had been enslaved.
> Now it is a UNIVERSAL music...
> Just enjoy it...
> Sincerely,
> John "Whiteboy" Walden
> London, 
> England.
>  
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