I certainly
am writing a post after a long long time, so do spare me if you find my
language a bit unpolished ;) you know what I mean! Anyways – The main point was
that recently, I managed to enter the ‘Mahindra Blues’ festival that was held in
Mumbai. & boy it was fab!!. Blues Music has always fascinated me in &
out in recent years. The plus point was the photographs that I managed to click
while listening to the whimsical music at the fest.
So thought I might dig deep into the form &
get some info. On how the ‘Blues’ came to life. Also sharing some of the
photographs from the event:
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| Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. - Plato |
Blues is a Native American
musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of
which we know. In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something
special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. In the
early nineteen-sixties, the urban bluesmen were "discovered" by young
white American and European musicians. Many of these blues-based bands like the
Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, John Mayall's
Bluesbreakers, Cream, Canned Heat, and Fleetwood Mac, brought the blues to
young white audiences, something the black blues artists had been unable to do
in America except through the purloined white cross-over covers of black rhythm
and blues songs.
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| Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. |
Since the sixties, rock has
undergone several blues revivals. Some rock guitarists, such as Eric Clapton,
Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Eddie Van Halen have used the blues as a
foundation for offshoot styles. While the originators like John Lee Hooker,
Albert Collins and B.B. King - and their heirs Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, and later
Eric Clapton and the late Roy Buchanan, among many others, continued to make
fantastic music in the blues tradition. The latest generations of blues players
like Robert Cray and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, among others, as well as
gracing the blues tradition with their incredible technicality, have drawn a
new generation of listeners to the blues.
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| “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” |
The photographs feature 2 amazing Indian Bands. –
Blackstratblues & Soulmate.
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