John Rogers "Blues, Rags, and Ballads"
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My Music

The music I play springs from the American oral tradition, from the largely unheralded but gifted poets and musicians who gave us a truly American music called the Blues.  That music has grown in many directions … rock, Chicago electric blues, rap, soul, R&B.  But the bedrock is that early music, the blues from the Piedmont and from rural Mississippi, the music from the hill country where white and black traditions mixed words and chords, the rags and songs from New Orleans … the music from front porches, back porches and parlors.  That’s the music I like to play.