On my last trip to Pune I heard a ‘local’ blues band. What struck me was, how pretentious and bad the music was. A blues chord progression and a harmonica section does not make you a blues band. I ran my assessments by some fellow musical hacks and one put it best: "Blues is a culture, something in your blood. You have to be born into the blues. Everybody isn't Clapton or Johnny Lang."
Indians make really good cover artistes. But guys, let’s not try going original on the blues, ok? If you do, try to be really good.
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