“Blues,” Jimi Hendrix is meant to have once said, “is easy to play, but hard to feel.”
It is an idea that has captivated musicians since the earliest emergence of blues in the mid 1800s. The structure of the blues is largely simple — often three chords, solos in one scale — but mastering it, making that work, so often proves elusive. It is why there is only one B.B. King, and thousands of players who never make it past their bedroom door.
