The Blues is more than just American music, it is an outlet, an art form, a feeling and spoken words when the right words cannot be found. Robert Johnson wanted to the best delta blues guitarist ever and he sold his soul to make it happen. Ray Charles reshaped ‘the Blues’ and made it ‘the Devil’s music when he took gospel arrangements and made them worldly.

The blues isn’t alway sad, sometimes it’s happy. The blues isn’t always hopeless, it is also hopeful. And people have come from all over the world to learn this American art form. Lastly, as the world changed, so The Blues.

Tonight we will talk about and maybe debate “The Blues.” Open your music history books and press play.