{"id":4288,"date":"2012-09-13T13:58:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T18:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2012-09-13T13:58:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T18:58:41","slug":"do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-sing-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-sing-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have What It Takes To Sing The Blues?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anyone who’s ever had it tough can sing the blues.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fortunately, anyone who has ever gone through any hardship can play\/sing the blues.\u00a0 And since we’re all human, just about everybody can sing the blues.\u00a0 I came across a fun article that asks that potent question, “Are you blues material?”\u00a0 The article appeared on the Times-Standard and I will provide the link to the full article along with a little snippet.\u00a0 Playing the blues is just like telling a story.\u00a0 There are good stories and bad stories, happy ones and sad ones, and they all can be twisted and turned into a blues song.\u00a0 So pick up that old six string, start jotting down some lyrics, and write what’s on your mind.\u00a0 You’ll end up finding that at the very least it’s a therapeutic process.<\/p>\n

Here’s the article I was referring to above.\u00a0 Do you think you have what it takes to be blues material?\u00a0 Check out the full article at http:\/\/www.times-standard.com\/guest_opinion\/ci_21502578\/are-you-blues-material<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ever wonder what it takes to sing the blues? From what I learned at Blues By The Bay, a person must first attend the School of Hard Knocks. Musicians Muddy Waters and Marvin Gaye can tell you a thing or two about sadness and despair. So can Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Guitar Shorty and John Hooker Jr. Even Elvis experienced a bit of misery. He had to drive around in an old car with no chauffeur before he hit it big.<\/p>\n

Female musicians probably know more about pain and heartache than anyone. Janis Joplin sang the blues in a voice so raw it could wear a scree-carved groove in your soul. So did Bettye Lavette, Maria Muldaur and Bonnie Raitt.<\/p>\n

Singing the blues has little to do with sex, skin color or whether you’re old and blind and running low on teeth. It’s all about those troubling experiences that lay deep in our minds like river snags. Good blues music originates from a rusty stop sign peppered with bullet holes, a homicide chalk outline, a lonesome train whistle or a constellation of buzzards circling in the sky. The blues comes from tar blackened lungs, a tricycle with a missing back wheel, the calcified bones of some small luckless animal and a pickup that’s gone teats up in the ditch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blues music is for everyone.\u00a0 Designed to share stories and make you feel good when you’ve got the blues.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed this article; maybe you can use it for some inspiration in your own blues journey.<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fortunately, anyone who has ever gone through any hardship can play\/sing the blues.\u00a0 And since we’re all human, just about everybody can sing the blues.\u00a0 I came across a fun article that asks that potent question, “Are you blues material?”\u00a0 The article appeared on the Times-Standard and I will provide the link to the full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}