Over the past five years or so, I’ve gotten deeply into the blues. It took me a long time to get at the core of what’s happening, the fantastic range of nuance, the layers of meaning, and especially the utter lack of fucking bullshit. You cannot bullshit with the blues. It is one of the few cures in the arsenal of resistance to the crushing bullshit of late-capitalist, decadent America. Dig it.
“He gets it! He knows music!”
“George Grella understood exactly.”
