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From: Wenner.es@XEROX.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: The Blues
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Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 12:31:44 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 30 12:31:44 1985
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Thanks to Jody Patilla for that one message sum-up of the past few
hundred sent to net.music or info-music.  It BEGINS to point out the
incredible spectrum of taste and sounds of interest to all you musicians
and music-lovers out there in arpanet and usenet-land.  Just an aside,
we XEROX Internet users are still trying to figure a way to connect to
the net.music.gdead, so have patience with us with regards to that
particular subject.

I've greatly enjoyed the too-few jazz discussions, particularly the Blue
Note re-releases and the new artists, such as Stanley Jordan.  I'm
curious about the interest in blues, both traditional and contemporary.
I'm from Arkansas, relocated to Los Angeles (hitting the cultural brick
wall, so to speak!) and grew up listening to many of the Delta and Texas
blues performers, such as Freddie King, Albert Collins, Sonny Boy
Williamson, et. al.  The blues scene is thriving in Los Angeles, with
many musicians performing regularly here (Etta James, Big Joe Turner,
Smokey Wilson) and many up-and-coming young bands cutting their teeth in
the drinking establishments throughout town (Tony Mathews, Butch Mudbone
are around here right now).  I'd appreciate hearing from other parts of
the country (world?) about the blues scene in your area.  

Thanks,
Jim Wenner <Wenner.es@XEROX.ARPA>
Xerox Microelectronics Center, El Segundo, CA
(213)-536-9582