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   From: grinner@nowhere.com   
      
   On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:22:11 -0400, lab~rat  >:-) wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   and i'd put freddie king above BB   
      
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