There won't be many NODs for Something About the Blues. Maybe a two or three. I do, after all, intend to have my review of this collection of blues poetry up sometime this week. Sooner than later.
Anyway, here's the first. It provides a broad introduction to the blues, and ties it to poetry as well.
Beaded and threaded throughout America's musical mosaic, the blues make you feel and hear. Sometimes you can count them off in measures and beats, but largely they dwell in a feral state; blues truth is wild and menacing.
Like poetry, the blues will always be dramatically unpredictable, sometimes torturous and sometimes pleasurable.
