"The globalization is my biggest fear. Tribes give up their culture for the western dream. It’s not rare to see villages where no one has a traditional costume, even for their festival."

Réhahn: Smiles From The Blue…

"I miss the quality of the music… that is not an egotistical statement! Lots of the current musicians do not seem to hold themselves to a 'higher level' of expertise in playing or singing."

Stephen A Love: Rock & Roll Gumbo…

"The Blues to me is a form of Art and history. Poetry in motion - Everybody gets the blues."

Nedra & Julio: Sierra Foothills Blues

Nedra Russ and Julio "Inglasses" Guerra make up nJr - a…

"Blues is the story of life, humble beginnings. It also forms the basis for a lot of popular music played by so many artists."

Roman Sobus: Visual Photographer

Roman Sobus is a Chicago based…

"I wish American culture would embrace the blues as much as other countries do around the world. It’s sad to me…rap singers have diamonds in their teeth and have private jets. There are blues artists with incredible talent who barely make a living…"

Mark Steinmetz: Dr. Two Tone…

"I really would like to change the minds of these guys in the music industry who underrated the power of the internet in the past."

Marius Tilly: Keep On Rockin'

Marius Tilly and his Band…

"The past is the stepping stone to today and I love living in the moment. My hope for the future is that there should be no fear."

Jeryl Abramson: The Farm of Peace & Love…

"We live in a very compulsive world, full of lack of compassion and spiritualism...no matter what anybody could think, we are becoming beast little by little, instead of filling our hearts with love we are filling ourselves with hate and envy, all arts are the reflection of the society and Jazz is one of them."…

"It (Blues) can be sadness, anger, happiness - anything, all in a single song."

Josh Garrett: Royal Jelly Blues

Born in New Roads, LA in July 1979, and raised in the bayou town of Houma, LA,…

"Act now while you are alive. Life without aesthetic invention and critique is bland and thoughtless. That there is much to discover. That one might discover and make allies and friends. That in music making one might enter a unified realm of intuition."

Gary Panter: Still Hopeful &…

"My hope for the future of music is that we never forget the roots of where it all came from, and my fear is that new generations will forget!"

Kentucky Headhunters: Southern Comfort

The Kentucky…

"You must accept flying over people's head often, must accept making mistakes in whatever art form you are expressing yourself, but most of all accept no boundaries or censorship."

Vince Larue:  The Satori of Art…

"The human struggle is a greater weight than most people realize."

Gary Heffern: 

Unholy Dreams & Holy Lives…

"Depression exists in any country. So blues is always there!!"

Akis Tourkogiorgis: The Blue(s) Airways

Akis Tourkogiorgis born and raised in Castella of Piraeus, Greece. The slope of the music seemed at very…

"All generations experiment with music, they just take what they learn from their root influences and take it somewhere new. The roots reach back to different times."

The Gordons: The Echo Of Experiences…

"The blues originated with black folks, was appreciated, adopted by white folks. I think that helped members of society understand each other more. I wish that young black kids appreciated the rich heritage of the blues more."

Bob Sarles: Rock Around The Film…

"A new generation needed new comics. What Robert Crumb did in 1967 was to reclaim the comic book form for new cartoonists who wanted to revive it and aim it at an adult audience."

Bill Griffith: The Strips of Underground…

"It’s the message, the feeling, and the emotion that pulls it all together. Good music no matter what kind is the glue that ties people together and make them feel."

I. J. Ganem: Oklahoma Harmonies

Performing music from the…

"The Blues to me offers more than just the emotions that most music brings, it also offers what seems like a conversation between instruments, it reveals emotions that we didn’t know existed."

Marianthe Boyagis Snyder: Art Therapy…

"Blues will continue to evolve and inspire younger generations but I would say my fear would be if songs with an auto tuned voice on a blues song was more popular with the new generation than real blues."

Ty Curtis: Hitting the NorthWest …