"The Dead has a huge impact on the young people of the time, and part of the impact was socio-cultural. These people have gone on to be major players in the world and have even influenced governmental policy based on their experiences back in the 1960’s."

Mischa Ballard: Shakin' On The…

"Blues is a lifestyle. Blues means 'emotions'. Not only those sad. From my perspective we are born with blues. We cannot learn blues. You can learn only theory of the blues, its history."

Michał Kielak: Blues Emotions…

"Most popular music now days owes a lot to the blues. You can hear it in almost everything if you know what to listen for. And of course, blues owes everything to African music from which it was derived. Blues is the thread that sews all that music together."

Alan Moe Monsarrat: Roots Rock…

"The blues comes from the soul and core of our emotion and to be able to express that and have a roomful of people or more actually receive that and be affected is really meaningful to me."

Mississippi Bigfoot: Swampape Blues…

"As far as satire, I’m not sure, not much of what passes as satire, now or ever, is funny or clever to me or even works on any satiric level. I think hands down the best satire ever created were those first 26 issues of MAD edited and written by Harvey Kurtzman."

Drew Friedman: The Art of…

"Writing itself is a form of self-therapy, sometimes unearthing some deep issues from your subconscious ...as for the blues, that’s a strong emotion to work with, to express through music life's frustrations and pains."

Phil May: The Pretty Things of…

"All over the world I notice how much the same everyone is. Of course there are differences, but everyone speaks music. Everyone speaks guitar and drums. I can communicate in a country where I am unable to speak the language. I should say my guitar communicates."

Bob Log III: The Guitar Party...…

"Music itself sees no color and it sees no ethnicities – it can however be used as a bridge to create ideas, questions, and to get conversations started."

Joe Breckenridge: Sweet Soul Alabama…

"Counterculture is the various artistic endeavors that are ahead of their time, often unrecognized, marginalized and resisted especially when they have a political subtext."

Peter Kuper: Capturing Experiences…

"Every experience that the Black American has endured can be found in the Blues."

Hubby Jenkins: The Roots of Black Rose 

Hubby Jenkins is a talented multi-instrumentalist who endeavors to share his love and…

"In a perfect world, the quality of the music would come first and the packaging and hype would take a back seat."

Randy McAllister: Texas Roadhouse

He's been flying in the face of convention his whole…

"The blues often points towards the contradictions in the American democratic landscape. Willie Dixon has been quoted to say, 'The blues is life'; if we believe this, blues becomes a mirror."

Walter "Wale" Liniger:  Blues Professor…

"I miss the raw energy of rock ‘n’ roll, jazz, and blues from the past, there seems to be less risks taken in live performance in these digital times."

Ross Rice: Seven Notes on Seven Chakras…

"Blues is therapeutic. It’s like when you have gone through some difficult things and you need a friend to talk to, the Blues will be that friend."

Clarence Turner: Blues-caster Blaster

An…

"My fear is that this will become a rarity and all music will be made by computers. If that happens I’ll fucking move to Mars."

DeWolff: Grand Southern Electric

DeWolff are a psychedelic rock band from…

"The same feeling and the same need of people, worldwide, for freedom of expression. Love, passion and the intensity in which they are expressed, are taboo feelings and in Blues - Rock music, there are no taboos."

ALTRIBE: Out Of The Blues…

"Music is a great teacher and healer. Music carries a deep message, it brings people together. It opens up channels in the brain that are beyond thinking. It creates a bond among people, crosses barriers of age, race, gender, language and border."

Tamara Klamner: The Lotus of…

"I fear that messaging, texting and people glued to their devices is creating a landscape of individuals who are no longer able to connect to one another outside of cyber space."

Nana Simopoulos: Inside The Sound…

"The days of blues are gone but there are those that must carry on. There are those that will keep carrying the torch no matter what. Never give up what you were born with and love despite the popular trends of the day."

Les Copeland: The Love & Purity of…

"Blues is a communion with our spirituality, sometimes it is religious, sometimes it is not; it is a heart's talk (confession) or a complain, which focuses on our pain or our own experiences."

Teleferik:The Bright Side Of The Moon…