Well, yeah, josez...

General trend is not only black kids not interested in the blues but white kids, too... I mean, no argument there... Not too many interested in lotta music...

I reckon where we might have a difference of opinion here, and maybe not, is a sweeping statement that "blacks rejecting blues" which ain't so...

I agree with EJ... We saw a resurgence of interest in the blues in the 60's but like many waves it's gone back out... Actually, that resurgence was of mostly white folkies... Heck, Son House was home in his apartment in New York having not played geetar since 1948 when in 1963 the folkies found him, plied him with a little lubricant and got him back playin' again...

And yeah, unless you are a blues player you'd think that no one likes it any more, especially younger black folks but that ain't the whole story...

I've presented a number of places where young black bluesmen are learnin' it up and into it... Archie Edwards Barber Shop, the IBC, W.C. Handys, Delta Blues Museum just to name a few...

I mean, unless yer into the blues purdy heavy then ya' ain't gonna know about these venues and if that's the case then, yeah, might be real easy to *assume* the black folks have "rejected blues" music... Just ain't that way, at all...

I mean, face it, because of the internet and CD's and downloads and YouTube and, and, and there are more style of music out there that are easily accessible so that does kinda spread the interests out...

B~