OFF: Blues music

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

At 09.22 -0400 99-10-06, John A. Swartz wrote:
>On the other hand, it's pretty obvious if you listen to enough blues
>music that just about any blues song written today is probably a rip-off
>of an older blues song.  I'm not in any way trying to defend Led Zepplin
>by the way, just making an observation as one who has been listening to
>(and enjoying) a lot of blues music over the past few years.

Probably any blues song ever written is, to a great extent, a rip-off of
another blues song. That's how traditional music works :)  This whole
originality thing is a weird modern invention.

Cheers,
Carl

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