Black History Month Spotlight: Something about the Blues

By Matt Melis on February 23rd, 2009

Feel so bad, feel so sad, feel so glad? Blues music has always had a mysterious therapeutic quality about it. How can sad expression-being down in the dumps-bring such comfort, and even joy at times, to listeners? What is it about those chord progressions, those blue notes, and those call-and-response patterns of field songs and [...]