"For its first fifty years, blues was primarily black popular music. Like rappers or country-and-western stars, the top blues singers were assumed to come from poor backgrounds and to understand the problems and aspirations of folks on the street or out in the country, but they were also expected to be professional entertainers with nice cars and fancy clothes, admired as symbols of success."
Elijah Wood | ESCAPING THE DELTA: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
