Why do people like the blues?

          This is a question that can be asked of any musical genre (or any art form for that matter). To me, the answer, as it relates to the blues, is feeling. If you don't feel it, it doesn't mean anything. The emotions that the blues invokes is more than just a pleasant feeling of musical enjoyment -- it is a sensation that can only be described as electric. Even in the times before Muddy Waters, when electric blues was on the prepuce of the fringe, the feeling of the blues was still primal. It moved, soothed, grooved, and sometimes elates its listeners. If there is anything that I can convey to the modern man and woman just starting to listening to blues, it is this: forget what you know; listen to the emotion of the music; let it move you; let it groove you; do not let the main stream music scene tell you what is cool and what is not. Feel the music and judge for yourself. Peace.