Why I view the 1830s as blues’ first watershed
BLUESMUSE31 UPDATED MARCH 4, 2023. While many blues historians write of the 1890s as the decade blues began, in my book ‘America’s Gift’ and e-Book ‘How Blues Evolved’ (Vol 1), I put a case for the 1890s being simply the second blues watershed before the birth of modern blues. The first blues watershed, I concluded, was in America in the…