Come to think of it, I never did get my money back. Those were the days. Blues really began with the three S's - slavery, suppression of culture and sharecropping. Blues is closely related to the Afro American experience. So many of the early blues songs came from slave work songs, you can trace our history in the blues.
Blues deals with a range of subjects.
Each song I sing takes on its own individual form, and I can feel myself expressing the strong feeling of the words. The blues is a quasi-full expression of our society. I lived the blues in the cotton patch, servant quarters, cooking in white kitchens, being broke, hungry, abusive grandmother, and feeling trapped in a bad situation. I do know all of his family was dead and long gone. He did not have anyone to care for him, so kind hearted Aunt Edna took him in.