“The Blues and Rock has influenced my view of the world because it breaks barriers whether language political or other. African American blues is revered all over the world.”

Jay Willie & Bobby T. Torello:

Still Raisin’ Cane (Tribute to Johnny Winter)…

”I think blues can be a very intimate personal experience for someone, and certainly a music style that offers a broad pallet of musical adventures. It’s an important music genre and worth to be approached and experienced by many more people.”

Gregg Giarelis: (Blues) Time (Rock) Flies…

“Music today sounds very generic. Many artists sound the same—they might be "trendy" now, but they’ll be irrelevant in a few years. For me, the music from the '60s and '70s always carries a sense of urgency and feeling that remains timeless.”

Leif de Leeuw: The Blues Rock…

"Music allows us to feel human, love, tread lightly and taste a little wisdom to appreciate the sanctity of all life. Music can turn us towards compassion."

Matt Turk: New York Roots Troubadour 

Matt Turk is a musician, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, veteran performer, troubadour, bandleader, eternal idealist, peace loving…

”Blues music means everything to me. I met my best friends, my wife, did all my world traveling all while singin the blues. I listen to blues music all the time. Recently going back to Little Walter. Still so much to hear and study.”

Andrew Duncanson: Chicago via California…

“I miss when people listened. When music and art were the soul of entertainment. Now, Netflix and cell phones sit on that throne. I miss when a blues song was a song and not just a guitar hero experiment.”

Scott Low: Blues Is Everywhere …

”Well, if there is one difference between Afro-American Roots music and the music from the Caribbean is that it is rare that you will find in the Caribbean the heaviness found in the American Blues.”

Benoît LeBlanc: Mô Kouzin, Mô Kouzinn

Benoît LeBlanc is a critically…

“Blues and Rock n Roll has always been very influential to UK musicians so it flavours many genres of music in the UK. so even if the listening public don't know it they are listening to blues inspired music a lot of the time.”

Ian Jennings: Bass with Soul…

“When I first heard Mongolian folk music I couldn’t believe how many similarities to blues it had, similar rhythms, same scales, same riffs, and that deep growling throat singing, gee if that ain’t howling wolf, I started to think that maybe somehow the migration of mongols to America who then became indigenous Americans might have shared their music with African Americans? That’s my theory!”…

“I miss mistakes! A lot (but not all) of music nowadays is totally devoid of mistakes.  Digital recording definitely affords the opportunity to fix mistakes, and I think this is often taken advantage of in the pop market. Technology has also afforded us access to a lot of music, so I’m not generalizing all music from the present as being one thing or another.”…