So the whole reason I started the Dead Exs was to give people a chance to dance to the blues. The delta blues started way back in the juke joints of the south…there was no amps, no light show, no gaga, just a feeling and a need to shake off a day in the fields with a party…Here is what Wikipedia says. “Juke joint music began with the black folk rags (“ragtime stuff” and “folk rags” are a catch-all term for older African American music[7]) and then the boogie woogie dance music of the late 1880s or 1890s and became the blues, barrel house, and the slow drag dance music of the rural south (moving to Chicago‘s black rent-party circuit in the Great Migration) often “raucous and raunchy”[8] good time secular music. Dance forms evolved from ring dances to solo and couples dancing.
We played a raucous show in NYC last night and were so stoked to see a bunch of kids dancing and singing to a couple of inspired musicians: one playing slide guitar and the other thrashing a drum kit. So duly inspired, I set off today to find some examples of dancing to the blues. So moving forward I would have to say the general theme shall be: have fun and get air.
With Love,
dp
An instructional vid from our friends in Portand….Spicy!
