I've been listening to blues since the '50s, playing some since the '60s and playing them almost exclusively since I got back into music about 4 years ago.

I play strictly acoustic (Well, I plug a couple of my acoustic guitars sometimes because so few people know how to mike them these days) and favorite bluesmen to learn from are all the Blinds (Blake, Fuller, Davis, Jefferson, McTell), lots of Piedmont and Georgia players, Robert Johnson (who I consider an excellent musician, but not one of the originators of blues), Big Bill Broonzy and Josh White.

I think Muddy Waters didn't invent electricity, he electrocuted the blues. I can listen to a few of the plugged-in bluesmen, but not many and see nothing particularly appealing about one-note wonders like B.B. King who play guitars to sound like trumpets and saxophones.

I live in Canada now.

cheers,

david