Leeneia

I trust that you will agree with me that the blues started out as folk music and to a certain extent it still is. Like much other folk music it doesn't obey the written rules imposed upon music by the European classical players. How for instance do you write down and read off the paper a B B King solo with all those squeezed bent notes and play it just like him? Or write down, read and play a harmonica
tune by Rice Miller or Sonny Terry etc etc. So, I am still interested to know which bluesmen you know played from written music. I have never knowingly met one.

There is a well known quote which I can't remember the origin of but a well known musician was once asked if he read music and his reply was "not enough to hurt me".

Hoot