Nice thread RLA. I was born and raised on the blues, I know a bit about it, but if you want the real info, you should call my dad, he's a friggin living encyclopedia on the genre. NPR (88.3 FM) has a show on weekend afternoons, I can't recall the times. However, the show is called "The Blues Review", it should probably give you a good taste of some nice blues music. A few bands I'd look up if I were you would be like Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers, Eric Clapton (from the cradle), Mark Selby, Kenny Wayne Shepard, and even the local Summertime Blues Band have some decent stuff. Granted, most of those are more modern blues, everyone else seemed to mention the classics (BB King, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, etc.). A good movie that's filled with the blues that you might like is called "Crossroads". And no, that's not the one Britney Spears was in, it's an older movie with the kid from Karate Kid in it. It's pretty badass, it's got Steve Vai in the final "cutting heads" sequence.
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