You sound like a "Blues" man... My mother ALWAYS played Blues, even when she was a teenager in the 1940s. I'm not sure she had seen more than a handful of "Colored People" at that tender age, but somewhere and somehow she heard their music--and she immediately related to it. Everyone thought she was playing "The Devil's Music" and she went through lots of bull. When she left my dad in 1949 and ran away with a CIA Agent who was 10+ years her senior, I guess it was inevitable that she would end up with a Black Trombone Player for a few years. It was in her soul. The family, of course, disowned her and she paid a high price for that. But out of all her husbands, Tee was the only one who (1) WASN'T an alcoholic, (2) REALLY loved her, and (3) had a REAL JOB for a living and played jazz & blues at night and on weekends. She ended up playing with some of the greatest in the business, and never received any fame for it, because she was white, and being white in that crowd wasn't a plus.
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