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Acoustic music is the root
of the blues. Field hollers
and moans, spirituals and
gospel music, even
occasionally English,
Scottish and Irish music
form the core of the
blues. Acoustic Blues Club
brings you music examin-
ing the ‘roots of the
blues’. The earliest blues
recordings are now more
than 100 years old and
much of the music in this
show was recorded in the
< CLICK TO LISTEN last century. Check it out!
Acoustic blues is "the way
the blues began".
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf,
Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard
Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my
mind. It was something I'd been missing
my whole life. That music made me discard
everything else and just get down to the
soul and honesty of the blues.
Jack White