Shoot, ya'll... We all grew up listenin' to the blues 'cause ya'll know that "the blues had a baby and they called it rock 'n roll"...

Sure, there were some folks listenin' to the Brownie and Sonny 'er Howlin' Wolf but not as many listenin' to the Stones 'er Dylan... Dylan has always been a bluesman at heart... I mean, his song structure is steeped in the blues... Yeah, Dylan listened to Brownie and Sonny and Tommy Johnson... The Stones did, too... That was a long time ago...

I didn't listen to 'um until much later when Chess Brothers started puttin' out "the real blues"...

As fir my own transformation??? Late 90's when I thought I had played everything I ever wanted to play and so I delved into playin' the blues and that meant learnin' about lotta folks I had maybe or maybe not heard...

Since then, it's been purdy much balls to the wall blues and not even purdy Piedmont stuff but hardcore Mississippi stuff... Ain't all that interested in playing European folk songs...

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