Once upon a time, sometime between WWI and WWII, a wisp of wind found its way to a lonely crossroads and met a man named Robert Johnson. And when that meeting was over The Blues was born. There was nothing the wisp could do. And so with Lesson 51 of the 101 Series we look at the formative years for the genre known as The Blues and listen to recordings so old they’re growing moss. It starts with a lonely solo guitar player and ends with howl in the night – with a bucket of sweat for an appetizer. If Jay Gatsby had played The Blues he’d have been a happy man!
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