Blues is a musical style that anyone with talent can learn to play and sing.
The Blues is cultural expression of a people, transmitted artistically through instrumental music, song, and language bearing an intrinsic connection to the particular life experiences, spirituality, emotions, folkways, and collective history and culture of oppressed African descendants in North America. The old-timers was not born in no hospitals. My blues, your blues, Clifford Antone's blues, Hayes McMillan's blues, John Lee Hooker's blues was not born'd in no hospital. Just take my word for it, the Blues was not born'd in no hospital. Off-spring, extended family.