Modcast #432: Blues in the Beginning

Everyone knows that jazz and soul played a big part in the early
mod scene, and so of course did the blues. Mostly white British
youth became enamored of delta blues belted out by black American
musicians in the mid to late '50s. The sounds of Howlin' Wolf,
Muddy Waters, Slim Harpo, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddly, Lightning
Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, and Sonny Boy Williamson swamped London
music clubs. A first wave of older players latched on to the music
like Alexis Korner, Zoot Money, George Fame, Cyril Davies and
Graham Bond. These early blues adopters took other younger
musicians under the collective wings and mentored the future stars
of the British invasion in rhythm & blues such as Long John
Baldry, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Manfred Mann, Eric Burdon, Rod
Stewart and more. It was these stars that the early mods embraced
and turned into the icons of their burgeoning teen music scene.
This then is the blues in the beginning of the mod era.

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