Well, I've seen some things here that weren't very warm. Just like in Guest JJ's post. I have no clue whether I'm a guest or not but I've been to many message boards, many I'm a member. The average age of the posters there is 17. They act the way most people here do. Is the average age of a blues listener 16 or 17? Anywho, I came to post my thoughts on the modern blues. The modern blues of today's society is Rap. Think about the subjects of most rap songs, being poor, having people not love you, singing songs about being poor and people not loving you. It comes from the heart, like blues..any of this sound familiar? Well, if it comes from the heart, and its the same songs..what is the difference? Just a different beat? Yep. It's still directed to entertain and deal with the same issues that the African American society deals with. Now, there aren't too many rappers from Texas, that's cuz there are rich people in Texas, they cant sing about being poor. Now G-W, he doens't have any blues to sing about sept be inept in the head.