Just heard on BBC radio that pop singer Chris Rea has become disenchanted with pop and recorded a blues album. Not too bad, judging from the brief clip played. Hope it may be the start of a trend for more exposure for blues. Remember the 60s when bands like the Stones sadly went the other way from their blues roots to pop?
Thread creep: I picked up a library book recently called Gutbucket Quest by Anthony & Leming. I don't normally read fantasy but the title caught my eye. Most of it was rubbish (hero saves the world by playing on a magic guitar!) but the premise of an alternative world was interesting: blues was the prominent music as rock and roll hadn't caught on and Texas was independent ("Tejas", covering most of the South and Mexico), the Native Americans had their own country over most of the mid-west USA and the United States was just a few NE States!
RtS (white boy lost in the blues)