From the Broward Palm Beach New Times comes an
interview with Otis Taylor. Once again an interviewer who thinks the blues is dying! Ack! who hires these hacks! Otis does make a few good points about white artists co-opting African American art forms. Certainly through out history white American has accepted African American music, even when they didn't accept blacks as equals. However, when you compare the popular music of the day it is easy to see why African American music became popular. Also by this time blues, jazz, R&B, Rock & Roll, Soul, and Rap, are now music for everyone. You can find Hispanic, Asian, and Native American musicians who play the music, so in my mind African American music was, and is the greatest gift to world. All over the world you can hear blues, and all of its children, and that is truly a gift that keeps on giving.
