There's an annual event that lasts an entire week at Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia called "Blues Week"... People come from all over to learn from older, seasoned bluesmen... It's called "Blues Week" and I believe than anyone who doesn't think that young people of all races ain't interested in the blues needs to come aqnd check it out... I mean, hundreds of young people, many of them black gettin' learnt up by the likes of the late John Cephas or John Jackson, or Sparky Rucker or Phil Wiggins...

Or, as I mentioned earlier, the "Delta Blues Museum" in Clarksdale, Ms where they have a "band room" where oln any given day of the week there are young black kids, sometimes as young a 6 years old, in there playin' ol' timey blues...

And between these two venues you don't have anyone with baggy pants hangin' off 'um...

I'd also recommend the IBC, International Blues Challenge, which will be held the 1st week of February in Memphis... Lotta young black blues solo and band acts there, as well... No baggy pants there, either...

I mean, as Janie pointed out, when you get into the rural areas of Virginia, NC, WV, Tn, Kentucy and Mississippi you are in some areas where there is a deep appreciation for roots music...

Ain't like somethin' I just heard about... Been there...

But the most amazin' blues get together is, as I pointed out, Mr. Otha Turner's annual "Goat Roast" held in August way back in the sticks outside Como, Ms. where people of all races get down with every conceivable style of blues... Somethin' to behold...

B~