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Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.
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There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.
I'm sort of East Coast, so I like the off-white and the navy blues and the low-key preppy kind of thing.
We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters and brothers doing the same beat.
The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.
We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing...
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you're not clashing with...
There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to each other is in fact part of the pleasure you take in them - rather than the differentiation...
All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.
'Post 9/11 Blues' is an observational satire about the surreal circus of fear at that time. It's a generational thing.
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
