“Blues and other types of folk music are social in nature. As we as a species become less and less connected due to the use of non-human intermediary devices, we certainly need that which can keep us connected in more wholesome ways... a good meal with friends, a chit chat, a quilting bee, sports, dance… music.”…

“think it’s because these music genres make you vibrate, no matter the language nor the culture. Once you hear it, you feel it, you don’t need to think or understand the lyrics (of course, it’s better if you do).”

Cecilya: Nostalgia of Old Good Music Days…

“Of course the socio economic background of most of the current crop of young blues guys is still difficult. But for the original generations it must have been like living in an occupied land-no rights, no respect. The original blues guys had messages in the lyrics, a form of censorship to circumvent, messages and secret ‘in’ messages about the harsh repression that they were under.”…