Was it Sonny Boy Williamson who said "Those white boys want to play the blues real bad, and that's how they play them, bad"?

And it was, and is, Buddy Guy who has said on many occasions, that it was the British blues enthusiasts and players in the 60s who helped to keep an interest in the blues alive. Instrumentally, the blues is another musical form, like any other. There weren't many 48-bar jigs in my part of my father's Lancashire musical heritage or my mother's Norfolk musical heritage, but it doesn't stop me going at them on my violin. As far as singing blues is concerned, I wouldn't sing some, and I would sing others - simply because I enjoy the words and music. I don't pretend to be a black sharecropper any more than I pretend to be an East Anglian agricultural labourer or a Lancashire miner. It's all performance.

As Bobby Charles said, "Do it wrong 'til you do it right".