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   From: chase@sheeze.net   
      
   On 5 Oct 2007 16:43:54 +0000, "Angus Manwaring"   
    puked:   
      
   >On 02-Oct-07 18:29:37, lab~rat  >:-) said   
   >>On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:48:07 -0400, "Dan Solway"    
   >>puked:   
   >   
   >>>Do you think North American blues is better because of the music or only   
   >>>because you understand the lyrics?   
   >>>   
   >   
   >>Eric Clapton was pretty good...   
   >   
   >Yes.  :)   
   >   
   >I think the question is really whether non-black blues is as good. I think   
   >there's a strong case for saying that most of white America didn't get   
   >Blues until the British ( bowled over by black American musicians like   
   >Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson etc) brought it back to America in white   
   >packaging. Of course that's not the whole story.   
      
      
   Well, I didn't see it as a black vs. white thing, I saw it as N.   
   America vs. other countries.  That said, I'd put BB King above   
   Clapton.   
      
   --   
   lab~rat  >:-)   
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