Quote Originally Posted by Sherwood View Post
IMHO the Chicago and Delta blues were born in oppression as much as, and possibly more, than poverty! To reduce it to a few more quid in their pockets completely misses the point and the suffering.
I was being deliberately flippant. My point is that for those people music was a big part of their African heritage so regardless of how hard it was for them or not they would still have been making music of some type or another. I'm not convinced that there is a proven connection between good music and hardship/oppression/ suffering.