I'm a bit confused reading this. I keep flashing back to this scene: I'm in the midst of crying-twins madness. It's February, dusk, and ONE of them won't sleep. In the manner of
Rosalee Sorrels, I pick him up firmly and rock him to the music I'm playing on the stereo - Texas work songs. Rocking him and stomping around the room I sing along "O Grizzely, Grizzely Bear, O Grizzely, Grizzely Bear..." It works like a charm. So - can you honestly state that I couldn't feel the blues then? Can you deny that my son was immersed in this music from infancy? The music was recorded, but I chose it.

Doc Watson tells about having a windup victrola and listening to blues records when he was 5 or 6 years old (that would be 1928-9). Is he a "copyist," then? If so, then just about anyone who played after about 1925 risks that label.