BLUES 1972

Good evening blues, blues how do you do?

I did pretty good in the 50’s, but now it’s 72....

1972 and lots of people think that blues is dying of old age and respectability. Many of the old masters have died (Mississippi Fred McDowell for one), and those who are left often have only part of their original power... and who’s gonna take their place?

Eric Clapton? Alvin Lee? Mark Farner? Alice Cooper? Nope .. . Time passes and all things change — the great melting pot of America assimilates another form into its homogenizing blender, and how long before B.B. King is doing gasoline commercials? (And why shouldn’t he? He’s paid his dues, right?) I

But what happened to blues?

Who ate it?