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Wednesday 6 March 2013

Mystery Train


        Blues grew out of the need to live in the brutal world that stood ready in ambush the moment one walked out of the church. Unlike Gospel, Blues was not a music of transcendence ; it's equivalent to God's grace was sex and love. Blues made the terrors of the world easier to endure, but Blues also made those terrors more real.

Greil Marcus
Mystery Train
1975

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Henri Dauman - New York

Text reblogged from The soundcheck and the fury

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