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The Hidden Truth of the Blues
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Everything you know about the blues is a lie. The blues was born in the Mississippi Delta. Black hands. Black pain. Black genius. Created by people who had nothing but their voice and a guitar. Robert Johnson. Muddy Waters. Howlin' Wolf. These men built something the world had never heard before. Then the 1950s hit. Suddenly, white artists started recording the exact same songs. The exact same melodies. The exact same rhythms. But their faces were on the album covers. Their names were on the radio. Their pockets were getting filled. Big Mama Thornton recorded Hound Dog in 1952. She
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