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Wabi Down Home Blues Project Band: The Best Things in Life Are Still Made By Hand

by Robert Jarovi
November 1, 2001

The story is very familiar: Young man hears blues legend (Howlin’ Wolf) on record and picks up an instrument (harmonica) for the next few years to master it. Many British and European youthfuls in the 60’s enacted this scene out ad nauseum. Except in this case the young man is from Japan - physically and culturally far removed from the blues of his dream. Not to say you can’t have the blues away from the United States; it is a ...