"The blues is the most important genre in all of modern popular music, bar none. To understand why, think of the blues as the parent and the music that descended from it as grandchildren and great grandchildren. Out of the blues came jazz and boogie-woogie, which led to rock, rhythm and blues, soul, funk, and eventually to hip-hop. Country music was first country and western music, which was a category that Billboard invented to separate white blues from Black music. Rosco Gordon’s swaying ‘No More Doggin’ became a foundational record for the creation of ska, which later spawned reggae. It would be astonishing if it were fiction, but it’s true. One reason it’s true is that the blues is a universal music. ...”
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