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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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By studying the history of Blues music, students learn about the injustice of racial intolerance.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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It is our mission to ensure the continuation of blues music by offering educational programs within our community, and to preserve locations and artifacts relevant to the history of blues music and its artists.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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The history of Blues celebrated in spoken word, image and music presented by a collaborative team of an NPN Partner and a North Carolina public housing center.
Blues Online© is an information resource whose mission is to increase awareness and appreciation of blues music and its history.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Nevertheless, throughout the history of the gospel and blues music there have been artists such as Blind Willie Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Reverend Gary Davis who succeeded in melding these forms together.
Even if Hooker had never recorded again, those songs and his idiosyncratic take on vamping electric blues guitar would have guaranteed him a place in the history of American music.
Bad Dog Blues plays the best new and classic blues spanning the history of the music.
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Tony Howell,
Skateboarder
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Blues music and the people who made it are the history, and so are the sidewalks they walked on.
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Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student
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The students have been learning about the history of the music and how to sing the blues as part of Cisco Systems Blues in the Schools program.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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Godoy Colbert is not a name that comes up very often in the history of rhythm and blues music, but it should.
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