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Where did the Blues come from?

Pop Ferguson blues believes that we should educate then entertain.

 

"We Can't Let the Blues Die"

"​People keep asking me where the blues started and all I can say is that when I was a boy we always was singing in the fields. Not real singing, you know, just hollerin', but we made up our songs about thingsthat was happening to us at that time, and I think that's where the blues started.​"

                   Son House 1965

Where did the blues come from? It started long before Son House and Ledbelly. Take a look.
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