I haven't posted to this thread because I know little about blues. Well, maybe a bit. But it is not a music I play in the house. Different head space I guess. I really dislike stock stuff like "Well, I woke up this mo'ning, feelin' uneasy in my head [do as you wish with 'uneasy in my head' but be sure you do it in five syllables]" because I have always felt any real blues man would have awakened after 2:00 pm. But you listen to the voices of the masters--they who will be different for all of us--and ya just know that man or woman has been there, done that and probably didn't have the business acumen to print the damned t-shirts.

Blues seems to me to be an unending cycle (or spiral, or helixical structure, or tornadoes from the ground up) of new people entering the genre. The ones who make it into modern folklore--maybe they ain't got the blues, but they definitely know about it. From a listener's point of view, a terribly mixed metaphor from a guy who don't know what a meta is, I can live with that. There are some heavy-duty knowledgeable people here, and I am enjoying following this thread.