Tim Woodcock I LOVE BLUES!! I always have, ever since my hippy days in the 70‘s. I distinctly remember a regular middle-class woman in Calgary picking me up hitching downtown. (They did that in those days.) She said she really loved opera. Then asked me what kind of music I liked. I said, “Blues.” She took her eyes off the road and looked at me and said, “What’s that?” “Oh, just....”
I’ll tell you what it is. Blues is a bodily emotion. Hey, if you listen to classical or jazz or even rock when you’re feeling really down, it won't likely do much for you. Maybe a little distraction. But put some blues on, turn it up, and you get right into the rhythm, the soulful sound, the sadness made cheerful, AND your sad self gets right into the rhythm, the soulful sound, the sadness made cheerful and there you suddenly are: cheerful. And if you listen to it when you’re feeling good, it’ll keep you feeling good. Blues is a very emotional music. You move to it. It lives there with your emotions, not somewhere else, in some stratosphere where they should be but aren’t.
I’ll tell you what it is. Blues is a bodily emotion. Hey, if you listen to classical or jazz or even rock when you’re feeling really down, it won't likely do much for you. Maybe a little distraction. But put some blues on, turn it up, and you get right into the rhythm, the soulful sound, the sadness made cheerful, AND your sad self gets right into the rhythm, the soulful sound, the sadness made cheerful and there you suddenly are: cheerful. And if you listen to it when you’re feeling good, it’ll keep you feeling good. Blues is a very emotional music. You move to it. It lives there with your emotions, not somewhere else, in some stratosphere where they should be but aren’t.
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