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If blues didn’t have the lure that it had and still has, the British Invasion doesn’t happen when it did and rock music would not be what it is today. I’m not saying we don’t have some form of rock and roll music but the men that became Beatles, Cream, Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin heard blues music and said “That’s what I want!”
Just think of all the great players from England that we love, almost everyone started as a blues player. Most of them played either with John Mayall and the Blues Breakers, the Yardbirds (where you had to be a blues player to qualify), or both: Peter Green, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood (all of Fleetwood Mac), Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Jimmy Page, etc. Even Jimmy Hendrix had to go to England to get noticed because that’s where this great blues movement was happening!