The California Blues

<p class=ql-align-justify>Blues is a feeling. It's all in what happened in my life or to someone else's life which is the true facts and a feeling. When you've been mistreated you're not the onliest one. Someone else in the world has been mistreated-that's the blues. It's all in your feeling and the feeling is a true part of life.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>̶ Jimmy McCracklin</em> from <em>The California Blues</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p>Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.</p><p><em>̶ B.B. King</em></p><p></p><p>If you don't know the blues there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing a rock and roll or any other form of popular music. </p><p><em>̶ Keith Richards</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Blues had a baby and they called it Rock and Roll.</span></p><p><em>̶ Muddy Waters </em></p><p></p><p>The blues are what I've turned to what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.</p><p><em>̶ Eric Clapton</em></p><p></p><p>Funk gospel blues is all out of slavery times out of depression out of sorrow.</p><p><em>̶ Nina Simone</em></p><p></p><p>The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.</p><p><em>̶ John Lee Hooker</em></p>