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Da Blues
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Each
day we wake alone and empty
Do
not go into the study and open a book
Take
down an instrument instead, and begin to play
Let
the beauty that we love, be what we do
There
are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground
-Rumi (1300’s approx)
| "Stop, look and listen-I hear somebody
calling me. It's the voice of the blues calling me back to my used to be. Irene
Scruggs |
"Love can make a poor man rich or break
his heart, I don't know which"
Muddy Waters on love
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"I done seen better days, but I'm puttin up
with these" Rabbit Brown on bad luck |
| "It don't pay nobody to live this life fast.
Just take it slow and easy as long as it will last" Bumble
Bee Slim on life |
"I got off my pallet and I laid down across
my bed. And when I went to eat my breakfast, the blues were all in my bread" Skip
James on the blues |
"One day I'll have money, I want everybody
to watch and see. It's hard to keep down a good man like me. Sonny
Boy WIlliamson |
Click "Da Blues" to learn to write
your own songs.
Rebuttal
Whoever said White
Men can't sing the blues was just plain misguided. The blues are blues! They're not white,
they're not red, they’re not black... they're just blue. White man's blues just come
off a different palate. White man's blues come from misguided values and the unstoppable
guest for social position, money and power. White man's blues are hidden behind the
trappings of wealth, status & toys. They start out pale blue, almost white and it just
takes longer for them to age into the deep dark color we know as "The Blues".
Some blues come from the outside. The White man's blues come from deep inside his soul.
It's a long way to the surface...it emerges like an aquatic insect taking on different
forms, different colors along the way... the colors are all shades of blue they just get
lost in the environment - hidden in the camouflage of "success". In the end,
when the sunlight finally break through...it's deep and it's dark and it's Blue. And the
tragedy of the White man's Blues is that they're self-inflicted.
- CPP October 13, 2002 ©
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